Tag: University of Uppsala

When a strait hides a piece of continent

Mirjana Binggeli

A team of researchers has just revealed the existence of a microcontinent located on the Davis Strait and formed 60 million years ago during plate movements.

Oldest Southern Hemisphere fossil of a polar marine reptile found

Julia Hager

A nothosaur vertebra found on the South Island of New Zealand has now been identified as the oldest fossil of a polar marine reptile ever found in the Southern Hemisphere.