Researchers investigated the Ashoka Coal Mine in the North Karanpura Basin of Jharkhand, where layers of coal and shale preserved a rich archive of ancient plant fossils and chemical signatures.

Antarctica wasn't always a land of ice. Millions of years ago, when the continent was still part of a huge Southern Hemisphere landmass called Gondwana, trees flourished near the South Pole. Now, ...

The findings offer rare insights into how ancient continental environments responded to periodic marine incursions during the ...

What does Glossopteris mean and why do researchers care about Glossopteris fossils? The extensive range of these fossilized leaves shed light on plate tectonics and continental drift theory. Fossils ...

Robyn Williams: It was at a dinner, in Canberra, late last year. Put on by the Independent Scholars. That's where I met Liz Truswell, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and she's also a ...

Paleobotanist Aviwe Matiwane is working in her native South Africa to find and catalog fossils of a plant that can provide us with a glimpse back in time to the climate and even food chains of a time ...

IN a collection of plant fossils from Upper Bowen sediments in the Mount Coolon area of Queensland by a field party of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, fertile material of Glossopteris angustifolia ...

Aviwe Matiwane receives funding from the NRF African Origins Platform; and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences. Rosemary Prevec receives funding from the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in ...

THIS work is a translation from the author's older work in the “Palæontographica,” amended to 1887, edited by R. Etheridge, Jun., Government Palæontologist, and with notes by the Geological ...