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

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

Researchers identified a new dinosaur species that lived in Africa roughly 95 million years ago and published their findings last week in the journal PLOS ONE. The ancient species is called ...

The researchers found that the dinosaur was closely related to the North African and South American Carcharodontosaurs, as well as to a group of predatory dinosaurs from Asia, the Metriacanthosaurs.

To account for the numerous gaps in the fossil record, they treated the parts of the world where fossils have not been uncovered as missing information rather than designating them areas where no ...

The remains of the earliest dinosaurs could lie beneath the Amazon rainforest and the Sahara Desert. New research suggests that dinosaurs evolved in a much hotter and drier part of the world than ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

This species is related to the North African and South American Carcharodontosaurus and to a group of predatory dinosaurs from Asia, the Metriacanthosaurs, scientists say. The findings suggest ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. An artist's reconstruction of the newly named dinosaur whose remains were ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

SNSB and LMU Paleontologists have identified a new species of predatory dinosaur from the Cretaceous period in North Africa, about 95 million years old. What makes this discovery so special is ...