Penn State. "Giant fossil seeds from Borneo record ancient plant migration." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 14 August 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 08 / 240814123742.htm>.

The researchers were attempting to find remnants of one of these ancient lost plates, known as the Phoenix plate, while doing fieldwork in Borneo. Scientists can look at the magnetic properties of ...

It has long been believed — and evidence has confirmed — that the people, language, and culture of Madagascar are rooted in distant ancient connections to Borneo, an island in south-east Asia ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo ...

His pioneering research in Borneo’s tree canopy led to his first National Geographic feature story, in 1997. Mixing science with photography offers “the best of both worlds,” he says.

Instead, the Borneo rocks fitted into that mystery gap. A reconstruction of the Pontus oceanic plate shown in the paleo-Pacific ocean 120 million years ago, along with its present relicts.

More information: Edward J. Spagnuolo et al, Giant Seeds of an Extant Australasian Legume Lineage Discovered in Eocene Borneo (South Kalimantan, Indonesia), International Journal of Plant Sciences ...