#sauropods — Public Fediverse posts
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A new twist in an old origin story: Earliest #dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon https://phys.org/news/2025-01-story-earliest-dinosaurs-emerged-amazon.html paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01722-6 #paleoart by @markwitton
"the earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent #Gondwana—an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo, & Sahara today... the may have been well adapted to hot, arid environments... #sauropods seemed to retain their preference, keeping to lower latitudes"