One supercontinent, millions of years ago. Using modern geography, I tried to sketch what Pangaea may have looked like—and where today’s countries once fit.

Fossils of animals like it have been found in rocks dating back to the Permian in what was once the supercontinent Pangea. Eryops is also a member of a larger group of amphibians which includes ...

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Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

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The Socotra dragon's blood tree, Dracaena cinnabari, can live a thousand years. Its bright red resin is said to have medicinal properties. Photograph by Martin Edstrom, National Geographic ...

A tiny jaw fossil in east-central Greenland leads to the discovery of a new mammal-like species, Nujalikodon cassiopeiae, from 200 million years ago.

Interestingly, this coincides with the formation of Pangea, though scientists aren’t sure exactly if the formation of the supercontinent is related to the increase or a coincidence, as the data ...