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A research team says they have found an area off the coast of Brazil that may have contained parts of the original continent Pangaea, which existed before the Americas, Africa and other land masses drifted apart."When these samples came aboard the ship, the first surprise was, 'what are these rocks doing here?'" said Dr. Roberto Ventura, the director of geology and mineral resources at the Brazilian Geological Survey. "We did petrographic, geochemical (and) geological studies of this material."A team of Brazilian and Japanese researchers made the discoveries during a month-long expedition above the Rio Grande Elevation, which is a rise on the ocean floor around 930 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Reuters reports.Using a three-person submarine making dives as deep as 21, 000 feet, the team found granite and minerals like iron and cobalt.The materials found differ from the rest of the surrounding seabed, leading researchers to hypothesize that the area was once an island.Click for...
As the year comes to an end, it's time to look back at the grossest, oddest and simply most fascinating animals to make the headlines in 2012. There were zombie worm...
About 300 million years ago, volcanic ash buried a tropical forest located in what is now Inner Mongolia , much like it did the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.This pr...
A newfound giant predatory dinosaur with even stubbier arms than Tyrannosaurus rex may now hint that a vast desert once existed in the heart of a lost supercontinent...
The world's leggiest creature on record is even more bizarre than its 750 wiggling limbs attest, according to new research.The white millipede named lllacme plenipes...
A bizarre dinosaur had vampire-like fangs, a parrot beak and porcupine bristles, researchers say.The ancient creature, which was found 50 years ago in southern Afric...
Dinosaurs first came to be 200 million years ago after volcanic eruptions killed off their rivals, long before the giant creatures were wiped from the face of the Ea...
A tiny reptile scampering along an Outback-like environment snagging insects some 318 million years ago left behind footprints that are now the oldest evidence of re...
Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth, and the most famous one is the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million y...
Mass extinctions are a relatively common theme in the history and evolution of life on Earth, and the most famous one is the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million y...
A new ancient fish with a sharklike tail discovered in Canada was a fast-moving, aggressive predator, quite unlike its sluggish relatives today.Today's coelacanth ( ...
A massive, long-ago extinction was once thought to have been caused by a destructive wave of volcanic activity. Scientists now point their fingers at another culprit...
What may be the earliest known relative of T. rex and all meat-eating dinosaurs has been discovered. The dog-sized mini-predator would've made its future relatives p...
The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. T...
Texas may be suffering through a 100-plus degree heat wave, but long ago, the weather must have been surprisingly different. In fact, Texas and sub-zero Antarctica w...
A mysterious group of large, crocodile-snouted dinosaurs from the northern latitudes also inhabited the land that would become Australia , a newly found fossil revea...
Massive volcanic eruptions may have led to the extermination of half of Earth's species some 200 million years ago, a new study suggests.The release of gases from gi...
An ancient family of trees, the cypresses, got their start on the supercontinent Pangaea before it split apart. New genetic research indicates this continental split...
A wonky beast about the size of a Labrador retriever with a long neck and lengthy tail may be the world's earliest known dinosaur, say researchers who analyzed fossi...
An arm bone and a handful of vertebrae have yielded a surprising truth: The age of the dinosaur began earlier than anyone ever suspected.A new bone analysis of fossi...
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