Some 200 million years ago, a 12-ton dinosaur that was double the size of an African elephant stomped around South Africa. In ...

The first dinosaurs emerged around 230 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Back then, Earth looked very different. Instead of 7 continents, there was just one: Pangea. Even early ...

Dinosaurs first emerged in Gondawana, the southern half of the ancient supercontinent Pangea, which was made up of what is now Antarctica, South America, Africa, Australia and parts of Asia.

These dinosaurs were small, bipedal creatures that would have darted across the variable landscape. 'Much like today, the environments on Pangea were hugely varied,' says Paul. 'There were parts of ...

The associated changes in the climate and vegetation affected how dinosaurs evolved. All continents during the Triassic Period were part of a single land mass called Pangaea. This meant that ...

The interior of Pangaea would have been an intensely hot and inhospitable desert. It’s thought that the dinosaurs mostly stuck to its coastal edges while the pseudosuchians were better able to ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the supercontinent Pangaea as rodents scurried at their feet through forests of ferns, cycads, and conifers. At the end of the ...

Map shows how the major continents were arranged 220 million years ago in the Pangea supercontinent ... The herbivorous dinosaurs didn't reach Jameson Land in Greenland ("JL") until about ...

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Dinosaur embryo found curled up and ready to ... Most scientists believe the Triassic period ended when Pangaea started to break apart. This resulted in huge and widespread volcanic eruptions ...

including rodent-size mammals and the first dinosaurs. By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled ...