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What is Gondwana: the ancient supercontinent that changed Earth

This is the story of the last in a breed of geological titans, a supercontinent we named Gondwana.

Tarantulas are *everywhere* and now researchers know why

Turns out, they emerged in the Cretaceous, when T-Rex still roamed the land.

Giant, ancient bat discovered in New Zealand could walk on all fours

The extinct species offers a glimpse into New Zealand's long-lost mammal fauna.

Scientists find Permian fauna from Gondwana

Researchers have found new fauna in northern Brazil, in what used to be the continent of Gondwana.

America's invasive species - 450 million years ago

Land clearing and human habitation put significant pressure on local species – combine this with globalization and a general recklessness of the population, and you get a big, negative impact (both environmental and economic) from invasive plants. But invasive plants aren’t something new – they’ve been around for hundreds of millions of years. Scientists have […]

This frog hears through its mouth

One of the smallest amphibians in the world, the  Gardiner’s Seychelles frog, is also one of the most eccentric. The frog doesn’t stand out through an over-glamorous coloring or some unique, wild mating call, but rather as a result of one of its weird biological features. This frog doesn’t have ears – yet it can hear. […]

350-million-year-old former inhabitant of Gondwana found

A 350 million year old fossilized scorpion has become the world’s oldest known land animal to have ever walked the supercontinent Gondwana. Ancient history It’s 350 million years ago – take a moment to ponder that. Take a long human lifespan of 100 years, and multiply it by 100, and again by 100 – now […]

Next supercontinent will be called Amasia, and will be centered around the North Pole

Based on how the tectonic plates are moving now, no later than one hundred million years, Asia and the Americas will merge into one huge supercontinent, named Amasia. Geophysicists have long theoretized this, but a team of researchers from Yale University offered a new view on how Amasia will be formed. Continental drift Continental drift […]