360 million year old fossils from the Eastern Cape of South Africa unveil the first page in the story of terrestrial animal life on the old continent of Gondwana
Dr Robert Gess, a South African scientist working in a remote part of the Eastern Cape has today unveiled ground-breaking research on fossil s which represent the earliest record of a terrestrial (land living) animal in Gondwana. This is a 360 million year old scorpion from the Late Devonian, a time when the movement of life onto land was still occurring. Gondwana was a giant ancient continent made up of the land masses now known as South America, Australia, Antarctica, India and Madagascar. The discovery, made during Wits University funded research, was published in the peer reviewed journal...