Discover why Antarctica no longer has lush forests with giant ferns and how ancient fires fueled intense volcanic activity.

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...

And, as our recently published research in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology reveals, termites also chewed through the decaying wood of fallen trees. This is the first record of ...

But that’s the problem: unlike 1999, there is now considerable competition in the CGI dino-documentary field. Were the BBC to ...

The land that is now southernAustralia was part of a supercontinent that included Antarctica during the Early Cretaceous period. At that time, what is today Victoria lay 80 degrees south of the ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

It’s fortunate for us there are no giant meat-eating birds, but you must admit it would be rather cool, at least if their ...

Antarctica holds two-thirds of the world’s fresh water. For years, it was considered relatively stable — a vast, ancient ice sheet that wouldn’t melt for millennia.

The types of animals we know today have several similarities with those that lived on Earth millions of years ago, but also ...