The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents ... But groundbreaking research published in the journal Gondwana Research challenges that long-held notion.

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Tethys sat on a chunk of Earth's crust that slipped beneath the Eurasian plate during the breakup of Gondwana 180 million years ago. As this happened, shattered fragments of the crust sank deep ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

Lead author and Ph.D. student Joel Heath (UCL Earth Sciences and the Natural History ... might have originated in western, low-latitude Gondwana. This is a hotter and drier environment than ...