As in the city, the new administration of the post-communist former East that controlled these areas had yet to fully organize itself. From the void sprang forth limitless opportunities for sometimes ...

Long before humans and their ancestors were born, the continents of today, South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica, were one giant supercontinent called Gondwana. The educational ...

Placental mammals are a diverse group, with nearly 4000 described species (e.g., rodents, bats, elephants, humans) that bear live young and are nourished before birth in the mother's uterus through ...

The Melbourne international film festival installation transports viewers to the Daintree Rainforest. Its creators share how they built an entire ecosystem Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts stopped ...

Supercontinent split A new study pieces together Australia's breakup with Antarctica and India and paints a new picture of the demise of the supercontinent Gondwana. The study, in the journal Gondwana ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. It is a 350-million-year-old fossilized scorpion. A postdoctoral fellow from Wits ...

Fossilised remains of a dinosaur with a big elbow could rewrite our understanding of how Australian dinosaurs evolved. Palaeontologist Dr Steve Salisbury from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, ...

My family and I visited Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (the ROM) over the weekend to take in the museum's latest exhibit. Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants From Gondwana opened a few weeks ago and is ...

A new study claims that the origin of bees is tens of millions of years older than previously believed. The supercontinent of Gondwana had bees before it broke apart into Africa and South America. A ...

A map showing what Earth would have looked like had the supercontinent Gondwana broken up differently has been created by researchers. The map looks at how the world would be completely different if ...

The chronological history of Gondwana, the ancient southern super-continent that included most of the land now located in the Southern Hemisphere, is being rewritten by Brazilian and North American ...

The goal of their study, which was published in the journal Nature, was to trace how material was added to the keel of the supercontinent. While doing this, the team recognized a previously unknown ...