The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

until Gondwana began to break up about 200 Ma (million years before present). As you can see in this animation of former plate positions, India, along with Madagascar and the Seychelles/Mascarene ...

Laurasia, the northern half, broke up into North America and Eurasia. Gondwana, the southern half, began to break up by the mid-Jurassic. The eastern portion—Antarctica, Madagascar, India ...