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Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...
The retrieved core included Silurian to Devonian sedimentary rocks that surprisingly contain fossils provincial to proto-Africa (i.e., Gondwanan), rather than proto-North America (Laurentian ...
In stories of Australia’s past, much is made of its Gondwanan legacy, of plants such as southern beeches (Nothofagus species) that disclose old connections by growing in Australia and South America.
Newly identified plant fossils found in Argentina suggest that a group of spurges long thought to have Asian origins may have first appeared in Gondwanan South America. Anyone who has taken a long ...
Life reconstruction of the non-marine component of the Waterloo Farm biota. Hyneria udlezinye is shown together with the tetrapods Umzantsia amazana and Tutusius umlambo, the placoderms ...
During the Cretaceous Period, Australia was part of the supercontinent Gondwanan, along with Antarctica, New Zealand, Africa, India, and South America, among others. During this time, Gondwanan began ...
It also presents an unparalleled record of the ecological and evolutionary processes that shaped the flora and fauna of Australia, containing the relicts of the great Gondwanan forest that covered ...
It started as a seed of an idea. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a couple of plants from different parts of the world to show the Gondwanan connection, biologist Dr Tonia Cochran wondered as she began ...
Wonthaggi bird tracks affected by modern erosion and marine organisms at Footprint Flats locality. Scale = 5 cm in all parts.