Where in the world are Earth’s oldest dinosaurs?
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
How a Mass Extinction Driven by Ancient Volcanoes Led to the Age of the Dinosaurs
Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...
New Scientist on MSN17h
Dinosaurs may have first evolved in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest
Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...
Dinosaurs may have roamed the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously thought
How and when did dinosaurs first emerge and spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago? That question has for decades been a source of debate among paleontologists faced with fragmented ...
TheTravel on MSN3d
The Mystery Of Flying Dinosaurs Has Finally Been Solved
Before there were birds pterosaurs ruled the skies, soaring above the dinosaurs below. But only recently has the secret of ...
Live Science on MSN13d
Oldest-known dinosaur in North America is a 'chicken-size' raptor — and changes what we know about how dinos conquered Earth
A newfound "chicken-size" dinosaur, recently unearthed in Wyoming, changes what paleontologists thought they knew about how ...
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What Killed the Dinosaurs?
According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly ... common in asteroids and in molten rock deep within the planet. Scientists have discovered levels of iridium 30 ...
The Oldest Laurasian Dinosaur: New Discovery Rewrites Dinosaur Origin Story
The discovery of Ahvaytum bahndooiveche, a 230-million-year-old dinosaur in Wyoming, reveals dinosaurs existed in the ...