Scientists have discovered a new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species by examining photos of a fossil lost during an allied air ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...

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.

(Credit: Mark Witton/The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London) Just because we haven’t found dinosaur bones near the equator doesn’t mean they don’t exist — just that we haven’t looked in ...

The team found fossils of leg bones on the first prospecting trip, and knew very quickly that it was a dinosaur and Wyoming’s oldest, Lovelace said. But because “nobody knew the age of the Pop ...

At present, the oldest known dinosaur fossils—which have been found in more southerly locales like Argentina, Brazil and Zimbabwe—date back some 230 million years. However, the varied nature ...

"So far, no dinosaur fossils have been found in the regions of Africa and South America that once formed this part of Gondwana. However, this might be because researchers haven't stumbled across ...

“So far, no dinosaur fossils have been found in the regions of Africa and South America that once formed this part of Gondwana,” Heath said. “However, this might be because researchers haven’t ...

The research team pointed out that the reason dinosaur fossils have not been found near the equator is that investigations have not been conducted there. Paleontologists primarily excavate ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth’s land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like ...