Sahara and Amazon May Hold Clues to Dinosaurs’ Earliest Origins

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The oldest known dinosaur fossils date back 230 million years, although evolutionary differences suggest that they existed before that. Now, a new study believes it has realized from where...

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Forget what you learned in science books about the origin of dinosaurs. They could have emerged in a totally different area and much longer ago.

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Sahara and Amazon May Hold Clues to Dinosaurs’ Earliest Origins

The origins of the earliest dinosaurs could lie beneath the sands of the Sahara Desert and the dense foliage of the Amazon rainforest, as suggested by recent findings. Fossils from these regions, if discovered, might trace the evolutionary roots of dinosaurs back beyond 230 million years—the age of the oldest known remains. Such discoveries have the potential to reshape our understanding of how and where dinosaurs emerged, challenging existing t…

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They probably emerged in a warm equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent Gondwana - an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and the Sahara desert today - researchers say The remains of the first dinosaurs may be under Brazilian soil, in the Amazon rainforest and in other equatorial regions of South America and Africa, according to a new study led by researchers from UCL (University College London).