For centuries, sailors who had been all over the world knew where the most fearsome storms of all lay in wait: the Southern Hemisphere. “The waves ran mountain-high and threatened to overwhelm [the ...

A 246 million-year-old reptile fossil discovered by scientists in New Zealand has been identified as the oldest marine reptile fossil found in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a Swedish museum.

Scientists have discovered a 246 million-year-old marine reptile fossil, the oldest of its kind to be found in the Southern Hemisphere, shining a new light on the early evolution of marine mammals.

TRAVEL TRENDS, WORLD Created : Mar 17, 2025, 10:00 IST Things you didn’t know about the Southern Hemisphere The Southern Hemisphere is a world of its own, filled with breathtaking landscapes ...

“The prevailing wisdom suggested that we shouldn’t find something like that from the time interval we were sampling, nor from the Southern Hemisphere,” said John Flynn, the paleontologist ...

Once spread across the Southern Hemisphere, southern elephant seals are now facing steep declines. A new study reveals that these marine giants, long considered adaptable survivors, are struggling ...

For centuries, sailors have understood that the Southern hemisphere has threatened the most severe storms but with little to no scientific explanation behind it. Now, we have fresh confirmation ...

The Southern Hemisphere’s tropical season is from November to April. Cyclone Rae developed north of Fiji in the south-west Pacific on 22 February before travelling southwards. It was a shorter ...

The Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern -- but no one knew why. A new study lays out the first concrete explanation for this phenomenon. Researchers found two major culprits ...