For years, a set of tiny structures locked inside Brazilian limestone served as one of paleontology’s most tantalizing clues: ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

A reexamination of microfossils found in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul shows that the marks previously interpreted as traces of worms or other small oceanic animals are actually ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

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 ...

The Gondwana supercontinent broke up millions of years ago. Now, researchers are piecing it back together again. Around 400 million years ago, before Australia was a continent on its own, we were ...

Analysis of a volcanic ash tuff layer, only a few millimeters thick and discovered during excavations in 2024, revealed that the fossil-bearing Bromacker rocks are 294 million years old—four million ...

Research in the palaeobotany and palynology of Gondwana basins continues to unveil critical insights into ancient terrestrial ecosystems, climate variability and depositional environments during the ...

Scientists are a step closer to solving part of a 165-million-year-old giant jigsaw puzzle: the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...