Looking at the current distribution of ratites (large flightless birds including ostriches, rheas, emus and cassowaries) and understanding t...
Looking at the current distribution of ratites (large flightless birds including ostriches, rheas, emus and cassowaries) and understanding t...
Zealandia is a long, relatively narrow fragment of continental crust that split from Antarctica early in the Cretaceous Period (about 120 mi...
About 200 million years ago (MYA), the Tethys Sea split Pangea into Laurasia (the northern continents) and Gondwanaland (the southern contin...
During the Triassic Period, about 200 million years ago (MYA), the supercontinent of Pangea split into Laurasia (the northern Continents) an...
Should the cold, gray Midwestern winter begin to depress you, think of the Weddell seal. This large pinniped, the southernmost mammal on the...
Fossil evidence suggests that ancestral penguins first appeared along the coasts of Antarctica and New Zealand about 65 million years ago. I...