For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...

Their results showed that the earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in Gondwana's hot equatorial regions, which include present-day Amazonia, the Sahara desert and the Congo basin. These dinosaurs ...

Congo basin and Sahara desert. “When you consider the gaps in the fossil record and the evolutionary tree of dinosaurs, it could very likely be a centre point for where dinosaurs originated ...

Congo basin, and Sahara Desert today. Lead author and PhD student Joel Heath (UCL Earth Sciences and the Natural History Museum, London) said: “Dinosaurs are well studied but we still don’t ...

This area, which encompasses today’s Amazon, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert, was likely a hot, dry environment. “So far, no dinosaur fossils have been found in the regions of Africa and South America ...

Congo basin, and Sahara Desert today. Lead author and Ph.D. student Joel Heath (UCL Earth Sciences and the Natural History Museum, London) said, "Dinosaurs are well studied but we still don't ...