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 ...

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 ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

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 story of reptilian evolution is a saga of branching ... during the Late Triassic. So, they’re a bit younger than dinosaurs as a group. Turtles diverged from a group called Archosauromorpha.

In the latest days of the Triassic, early dinosaurs lived alongside giant amphibians, gharial-like phytosaurs and an array of crocodile relatives that took forms ranging from armadillo-like to ...

Ancient fossils found near Dubois have scientists rethinking the lifespan of reptiles — and how to include Native communities in paleontology ...

They were the only group of dinosaurs to survive the Cretaceous mass extinction around 65 million years ago (not to be confused with the Permian-Triassic mass extinction ... It’s a reminder of just ...

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.