Researchers have challenged the long-held belief that Earth has seven continents, asserting instead that there are only six.

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

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, ...

Chhattisgarh's Gondwana Marine Fossil Park in the MCB district, established in March 2022, showcases fossils from over 280 ...

It is one of the most isolated landforms of continental origin, having split from the supercontinent of Gondwana millions of ...

It suggests that the first dinosaurs likely appeared in a warm equatorial region of the supercontinent Gondwana, which today includes the ... becoming the dominant vertebrates on Earth for over 160 ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, ...

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If dinosaurs did originate in equatorial Gondwana, as the study suggests ... These areas remain some of the least-explored fossil sites on Earth, meaning that the missing chapters of dinosaur ...

Instead of assuming that gaps in the fossil record indicate an absence of dinosaurs, the study treat these regions as areas of missing information.