New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the Amazon, Congo Basin, and the Sahara Desert. Fossils dating back 230 million years,

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as researchers previously assumed due to an abundance of fossils in places like Argentina and Zimbabwe.

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator

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Where did the first dinosaurs come from? A new paper suggests that their elusive remains may lie buried in some of the world’s least accessible regions