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

Megaraptorids are known for somewhat small but sharp teeth, air-filled bones, and powerful forelimbs with enormous claws.

It is one of the most isolated landforms of continental origin, having split from the supercontinent of Gondwana millions of ...

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 Therizinosaurus, ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

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 ...

Lead author and Ph.D. student Joel Heath (UCL Earth Sciences and the Natural History ... might have originated in western, low-latitude Gondwana. This is a hotter and drier environment than ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Remains of the very first dinosaurs on Earth may be buried deep beneath the ... Their results showed that the earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in Gondwana's hot equatorial regions, which include ...

This surely is the most alien-looking place on Earth". Another person added ... having split from the supercontinent of Gondwana millions of years ago. Socotra is the largest of a six-island ...

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed ... W extension along West Greenland’s margin”. The Gondwana report, published in September, concluded ...