That braided river system was, and is, known as the Red River. But after years of dealing with the linguistic challenges of trading between the French, the Spanish, Native Americans, Mexicans, and ...

In a braided river system in what's now northern Zimbabwe 230 million years ago, a distant ancestral cousin of the giant long-necked sauropod dinosaurs roamed.

The Formation consists of hundreds of metres of rusty-coloured palaeosols and the remains of ancient channels, part of a more-than-55-million-year-old braided river system.

For this column we will focus on braided rivers, which flow in multiple and mobile channels across a gravel floodplain. Braided river beds are typically shallow, which allows multiple channels or ...