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.

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 ...

150 million years ago: Laurasia The massive neck dips, casting a curving shadow on the mossy ground. The dinosaur’s jaws close around its prize. The creature lifts its head, nearly dainty in ...

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 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 ...

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 ...