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This small, chicken-sized dinosaur lived around 230 million years ago. Interestingly, this pushes back the timeline for ...
Until now, the earliest dinosaurs in Laurasia appeared to have shown up nearly 6 to 10 million years later. The oldest previously known North American dinosaur, Lepidus praecisio, ...
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of "North America's oldest dinosaur." The find challenges the consensus view on the origins of these extinct reptiles.
More information: Pedro Correia et al. Iberian-Appalachian connection is the missing link between Gondwana and Laurasia that confirms a Wegenerian Pangaea configuration, Scientific Reports (2020). DOI ...
The evidence suggests that Ahvaytum bahndooiveche lived in Laurasia during or soon after a period of immense climatic change known as the Carnian pluvial episode that has previously been ...
The surprising discovery means dinosaurs likely traveled to Laurasia from Gondwana much earlier than previously thought. Gizmodo reports that Ahvaytum bahndooiveche was found on the ancestral ...
The fossil confirms that invertebrate animals, such as scorpions, colonized both Gondwana and Laurasia during the Devonian period. At the time, the two supercontinents were separated by the Tethys ...
Researchers in Spain have identified a new spinosaurus species that walked on two legs, feasted on fish and measured between 32 and 36 feet when it was alive.
After the final separation of Laurasia and Gondwana in the late Jurassic, Dr. Vargas said, the two northern and southern ankylosaurs pursued different evolutionary trajectories, suggesting the ...