#Hakea belongs to the ancient plant family #Proteaceae, which split into two subfamilies, #Grevilleoideae in #Australia and #Proteoideae in #southafrica before the separation of the #Gondwanaland continent around 140 million years ago.

*Image by Corynocarpus CC BY-SA 4.0

Proteaceae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteaceae

Grevilleoideae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevilleoideae

Proteoideae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteoideae

Gondwana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana

#BloomScrolling

Proteaceae - Wikipedia

These Revolutionary Maps Are Revealing Earth's Geological Secrets

This work paves the way for more precise and comprehensive geological models

ZME Science
Dossier der Woche: Gondwanaland - auf den Spuren des urzeitlichen Superkontinents und seines Mythos. #Gondwana #Gondwanaland #Erdgeschichte #Urkontinent #Plattentektonik #Geowissen #Suedkontinent
https://www.scinexx.de/dossier/gondwanaland/
Gondwanaland

Fast alle Landmassen der Südhalbkugel gehen auf ihn zurück: den Superkontinent Gondwana. Ihm verdanken sie eine einzigartige Lebenswelt, aber auch wertvolle Rohstoffe. Doch wie wurde sein Erbe entdeckt? Warum wurde „Gondwanaland“ zum Mythos? Und was hat Indien mit Gondwana zu tun? Als der urzeitliche Superkontinent Gondwana zerbrach, entstanden Afrika, Südamerika, Australien, die Antarktis und weitere […]

scinexx | Das Wissensmagazin

Sydney’s 90m-year-old climbing #galaxias fish may have been wiped out by school building works

The species can climb waterfalls and reaches back to #Gondwanaland – but there are fears #polluted runoff has proven fatal

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/11/sydney-climbing-galaxias-fish-extinction-fears

Sydney’s 90m-year-old climbing galaxias fish may have been wiped out by school building works

The species can climb waterfalls and reaches back to Gondwanaland – but there are fears polluted runoff has proven fatal

The Guardian

Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-trilobites-ashes-reveal-ancient.html

#Trilobites of #Thailand's #Cambrian#Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1516

"During the trilobites' lifetime, this region was on the outer margins of #Gondwanaland, an ancient #supercontinent that included Africa, India, Australia, South America, and Antarctica."

Trilobites rise from the ashes to reveal ancient map

Ten newly discovered species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand, could be the missing pieces in an intricate puzzle of ancient world geography.

Phys.org
A newly refined map of Zealandia drawn using study of dredged rock samples

A small international team of geologists and seismologists has created a newly refined map of Zealandia using data obtained from dredged rock samples recovered from the ocean floor. They report details in the journal Tectonics.

Phys.org
Ozelot-Weibchen Daphne bringt Jungtier zur Welt

Der Leipziger Zoo verkündet freudig, dass Ozelot-Weibchen Daphne ihr zehntes Jungtier zur Welt gebracht hat und es vorbildlich versorgt.

DieSachsen.de
Late in the day, but it's still technically #ThickTrunkTuesday Bit of strangler fig action, #roots and all #SpectacularSpecimen in #Gondwanaland #Springbrook #Queensland #australia #trees #love #gratitude
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