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70 Breathtaking Photos Shortlisted For Australian Geographic Nature Photographer Of The Year

The Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year celebrates the breathtaking landscapes, wildlife, and natural wonders of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, and New Guinea, an extraordinary region whose natural history stretches back more than 80 million years to the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.

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A museum drawer hid this dinosaur secret for 40 years, until now when everything changed

Antarctica dinosaur fossil discovery: A forgotten fossil, overlooked for 40 years in a museum drawer, has revealed Antarctica's first dinosaur discovery: an 82-million-year-old titanosaur tail vertebra. This find reshapes our understanding of the continent's ancient past, suggesting it served as a vital land bridge for dinosaurs during the supercontinent Gondwana.

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A discovery under 2 miles of ice in Antarctica could help solve a geological mystery millions of years old

Buried beneath nearly 2 miles of Antarctic ice, a newly discovered fan-shaped geological structure is changing how scientists understand Earth’s hidden history. The East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province reveals ancient tectonic movements, Gondwana breakup clues, and possible links to today’s glacier behavior. This discovery proves Antarctica is not just frozen…

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Breathing two-billion-year old air: MONA’s Hard Core is an artistic journey through deep time

The structure of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is cut directly into Hobart’s Berriedale Peninsula – walls carved from roughly 250-million-year-old sandstone that formed when Tasmania was still part of the supercontinent Gondwana.

The Conversation

Remained isolated for 180 million years: How Madagascar Island became a hotspot for Earth’s unique creatures

The biological narrative of Madagascar is a 180-million-year history of isolation and evolutionary divergence. Once a part of the Gondwana supercontinent, it broke away from Africa and later split from the Indian subcontinent around 88 million years ago. This separation turned it into a secluded natural lab. With no competition…

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Ancient Reptile Tracks Rewrite When Animals Conquered Land

After a brief rain in part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana 350 million years ago, a reptile pressed its small claws into the still-wet ground.

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Two lizard-like creatures crossed tracks 355 million years ago. Today, their footprints yield a major discovery

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.

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What does the world's oldest island look like?

Imagine stepping onto a land that’s been a relic of a world long past. Madagascar, often hailed as the world’s oldest island, broke away from the supercontinent Gondwana some 88 million years ago, carving its own path in splendid isolation. This isn’t just a destination—it’s a journey into a living…

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Secrets of 1st dinosaurs lie in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest, study suggests

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

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Tristan da Cunha: The most remote inhabited island on Earth, forged from a supercontinent breakup

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.

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They are relics of the Gondwana age but five years after Australia’s black summer these trees are dying a ‘long, slow death’

Rainforest trees at Nightcap national park have not evolved to deal with bushfires, leaving the landscape vulnerable for years after major burns

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Matching Dinosaur Footprints Found On Opposite Sides Of World

Discovery of matching dinosaur footprints in Brazil and Cameroon reveals ancient connection due to Gondwana breakup, shedding light on prehistoric life.

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Geoscientists uncover hidden continent Zealandia, once part of supercontinent Gondwana

Discover Zealandia, a continent that remained hidden for centuries. Learn about its history, geological origin, and why it took so long to uncover its exis...

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Columbia, Rodinia and Pangaea: A history of Earth's supercontinents

Scientists have identified three definitive supercontinents in Earth's history and predict the landmasses we live on today will come together again in the future.

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When did Australia become a continent?

After the supercontinent Panagea broke up around 200 million years ago, how long did it take for Australia to emerge as its own continent?

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120 million-year-old birds tracks near South Pole are the oldest ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere

Fossilized bird tracks discovered in Australia show these ancient creatures lived in the southern polar regions on the supercontinent of Gondwana.

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Revelations about ancient diamonds give clues about Earth’s origins

A team of experts sought to use the diamonds to understand how the earliest continents formed

The Conversation

Why are there hopping mice in Australia but no kangaroos in Asia? It's a long story

The animals in Australia are super-different to those in Asia. This goes without saying; we know Australia is full of weird and wonderful creatures found nowhere else on Earth, such as the platypus and the koala.

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Water mining near Queensland’s Gondwana rainforest ‘unacceptably risky’, opponents say

Court will hear appeal over plan to extract 16m litres of water from a site less than a kilometre from Springbrook national park

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Record dry spell threatening Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area

Unusually dry weather is leaving the state's Wilderness World Heritage Area sensitive to fire. It's a prospect that threatens a living fossil that traces its history to the ancient super-continent Gondwana.

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Dorrigo National Park investment to rival 'the Daintree' with $56 million Gondwana-era walk

A four-day walking track featuring three suspension bridges over World Heritage-listed New South Wales rainforest is set to put Dorrigo firmly on the global tourism map.

The Conversation

A new method of extracting ancient DNA from tiny bones reveals the hidden evolutionary history of New Zealand geckos

Aoteaora New Zealand has experienced a dynamic geological and climatic history. There was the separation from the southern super-continent Gondwana, the near drowning during the Oligocene some 27-22 million years ago, and the dramatic changes wrought by ice ages during the Pleistocene which started 2.6 million years ago.

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