The mystery of dinosaur origins has taken an unexpected turn toward the equator. While paleontologists have long searched ...

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs may lie undiscovered in the Amazon and other equatorial regions of South America and ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

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 ...

By using dinosaurs' close reptilian cousins to close gaps in the fossil record, a new model points to an ancient supercontinent as the birthplace of the extinct creatures.

“When you consider the gaps in the fossil record and the evolutionary tree of dinosaurs, it could very likely be a centre point for where dinosaurs originated,” says Joel Heath at University ...

Dinosaurs emerged in the southern portion of this landmass, known as Gondwana," said Joel Heath, a paleontology doctoral student at University College London and the Natural History Museum in ...