Failure to find the oldest dinosaur fossils may be because the areas in which they first evolved are now generally hard to explore like the Amazon rainforest or the Sahara desert, closer to the ...
By assessing the fossil record and the dinosaur family tree, the researchers’ models suggest that the first dinosaurs evolved in the dry savannahs and hot deserts of the ancient supercontinent ...
The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, suggests a new study led by UCL (University College London) ...
To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...
Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...
Researchers are now proposing a surprising location for the birthplace of dinosaurs, based on the locations of the currently oldest-known dinosaur fossils, the evolutionary relationships among these ...
Expert says research suggests that ‘they likely originated in the low-latitude regions of Gondwana near the equator, an area that today includes northern South America and northern Africa’ ...