The first dinosaur discovered by scientists in the entire southern hemisphere was found in South Africa just three years after the word ‘dinosaur’ was created by Sir Richard Owen in 1842. On top of ...

Madagascar's natural history is filled with weird and wonderful creatures. From the dinosaurs to now, it's location as an ...

But the African dinosaur fauna hints that at low latitudes, dinosaurs were thriving, even diversifying. If so, that means dinosaurs were cut down in their prime; burning out rather than fading away.

We share the planet with some truly impressively sized land animals in the modern day. All it takes is to look at the wildlife of the open African plains to get a taste of the megafauna that still ...

For decades, the oldest dinosaurs we had ever uncovered came from a restricted region in what is now South America. Some 230 million years ago, all of the world’s land masses were mashed ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

Science Dinosaurs Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match. The tracks from a once-unified landmass are now 3,700 miles and an ocean apart. By Laura Baisas.

For hundreds of years, whispers of dinosaurs still roaming the Earth have intrigued scientists, with some suggesting these ancient beasts could be hiding in the vast expanses of Africa. It may ...

Matching sets of footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs once traveled along a type of highway 120 million years ago before the two continents split apart ...

Dinosaur tracks from 140 million years ago found on coastline. The tracks of sauropods and possibly ornithopods were found in a rugged, remote area in South Africa ...

In parts of Africa, almost every single dinosaur fossil unearthed is a new species. But historically, this continent's dinosaurs have been largely ignored. Now a new generation of palaeontologists is ...

The discovery of predatory dinosaurs in marine sediments in Morocco suggests life was abundant and diversifying at the end of the Cretaceous period. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...