Almost two-thirds of the world's population is affected by the monsoon—the annual arrival of intense rains in areas north and ...

The shelly fossils, found beneath a 635 million-year-old glacial deposit in South Australia, represent the earliest evidence of animal body forms in the current fossil record by at least 70 million ...

Hutton, "The Supposed Glacial Period in Australia," Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales for 1885. Download references. Authors. R. VON LENDENFELD. View author publications.

The Tiesiao glaciation must have ended before 663 million years ago, and the Nantuo glaciation began after 663 million years ago" says Xiao. In South Australia and many other places, there is ...

The researchers studied iron-rich rocks left behind by glacial deposits in Australia, Namibia and California, which they said offered a window into the environmental conditions during the ice age.

However, during periods of glaciation, the peninsula would have expanded. When the sea level was at its lowest, Florida’s western coastline was probably 100 miles farther out than where it is today.

Exactly how complex animal life came to appear on the Earth has puzzled scientists for years. A team at the Australian National University (ANU) has made a discovery that could finally answer that ...