Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that drifted toward the Southern Hemisphere and broke up into Africa, ... Laurasia, would drift north and gradually split into Europe, Asia and North America.

Gondwana and Laurasia were once two separate landmasses on Earth comprising most of the dry land. Gondwana was made up of South America, Africa, India, Madagascar, Australia, and Antarctica, while ...

Having evolved in western Gondwana, the researchers explain, dinosaurs spread outwards into southern Gondwana and the neighboring supercontinent Laurasia, which would eventually go on to break up ...

The fossil confirms that invertebrate animals, such as scorpions, colonized both Gondwana and Laurasia during the Devonian period. At the time, the two supercontinents were separated by the Tethys ...

Now, Gondwana itself began to fall part pretty shortly after separating from Laurasia. Each piece of Gondwana gradually became isolated and began its own independent journey.

Scientists have discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. It is a 350-million-year-old fossilized scorpion.

They spread outwards into southern Gondwana and to Laurasia–the supercontinent next to Gondwana that later split up into Europe, Asia, and North America. According to the team, ...

Some time before the first dinosaurs, two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana, collided, forcing molten rock out from the depths of the Earth.

Until recently, the dinosaur group had only been found in Cretaceous rocks of Asia and North America, continents that were part of Laurasia. The new discovery, named Buitreraptor, provides definitive ...