Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...