Tens of millions of years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass, an ancient supercontinent called Gondwana. At some point, the two continents we now know started to pull away ...

What if a giant sea reptile from the dinosaur era still existed in the ocean’s depths? The science says extremely unlikely tiny populations, no fossil trace, and no credible sightings. But the ocean ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

The footprints show where the dinosaurs were able to cross between South America and Africa before the two continents split apart, according to researchers A team of international researchers recently ...

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A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in... Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart ...

Paleontologists have found more than 260 dinosaur footprints from the Early Cretaceous Period in Brazil and Cameroon, now more than 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) apart on opposite sides of the ...