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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The western margin of Gondwana records a prolonged history of plate convergence, terrane accretion and magmatic activity that shaped the Palaeozoic evolution of present-day South America, Antarctica, ...

A novel analytical approach has successfully differentiated ancient microcharcoal particles from Permian sediments in India.

Long before humans and their ancestors were born, the continents of today, South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica, were one giant supercontinent called Gondwana. The educational ...

The assembly and fragmentation of Gondwana was governed by a complex interplay of crustal rifting, magmatic activity, sedimentation and collisional orogeny. Modern geochronological techniques, notably ...

A team of paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History, the Australian Museum Research Institute, and the WB Clarke Geoscience Center, in Australia, has added new evidential data for ...