What does Glossopteris mean and why do researchers care about Glossopteris fossils? The extensive range of these fossilized leaves shed light on plate tectonics and continental drift theory. Fossils ...

Antarctica wasn't always a land of ice. Millions of years ago, when the continent was still part of a huge Southern Hemisphere landmass called Gondwana, trees flourished near the South Pole. Now, ...

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IN this catalogue the author makes “an attempt towards a complete summary of what is at present known on the subject of the Glossopteris Flora,” and he may be cordially congratulated on the successful ...

IN a collection of plant fossils from Upper Bowen sediments in the Mount Coolon area of Queensland by a field party of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, fertile material of Glossopteris angustifolia ...

Antarctica wasn't always a land of ice. Millions of years ago, when the continent was still part of a huge Southern Hemisphere landmass called Gondwana, trees flourished near the South Pole. Now, ...

Paleobotanist Aviwe Matiwane is working in her native South Africa to find and catalog fossils of a plant that can provide us with a glimpse back in time to the climate and even food chains of a time ...

Aviwe Matiwane receives funding from the NRF African Origins Platform; and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences. Rosemary Prevec receives funding from the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in ...

Read. 1941. Brazil Div.Geologia E Mineralogia Mon. 12 : 79, pl.4,f.2;pl.5,f.1. NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

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A new building at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) will have a blend of Indo-Saracenic styled architecture representing ‘Lakhnavi tehzeeb’ and design inspired from the Glossopteris ...