A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In the ...

Hills in the Aravalli Range represent heavily eroded remnants of one of India's oldest fold mountain systems, often classified as such due to their low elevations and rugged, dissected profiles.

Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the Greater Caucasus mountain belt, which also stretches along Russia's border ...