A research team has found that ancient rocks and fossils from long-extinct marine reptiles in Angola clearly show a key part of Earth's past -- the splitting of South America and Africa and the ...

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Namibe Basin, Angola, where the international team of researchers found rocks and fossils from long-extinct marine reptiles. The different letters correspond to different times during the splitting of ...

Credit: Southern Methodist University Angola rocks and fossils tell the whole story Africa and South America started to split around 140 million years ago, causing gashes in Earth's crust called rifts ...