Found in an Ecuadorian quarry, this amber preserves insects and plant material and provides an intimate look into life on the supercontinent Gondwana.

A fierce predator with a huge stinger and long pincers is the oldest land-animal fossil ever found on the former Gondwana supercontinent, a new study reports. The 360-million-year-old scorpion was ...

The “excellently preserved” fossil from the Cretaceous era, dating back 99 million years, comes from the Kachin region in ...

Scientists have identified three definitive supercontinents in Earth's history and predict the landmasses we live on today will come together again in the future. When you purchase through links on ...

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 ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from ...

Learn more about amber from South America, which reveals a warm, wet forest filled with insects, springtails, and spiders.

A continent the size of Greenland has been found buried deep beneath Southern Europe, reshaping how scientists understand the region’s geological history. The discovery—first detailed in a landmark ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil ...