Newly discovered fossils have given fresh insights into how the predecessors of dinosaurs developed 10million years after most of life was wiped out in Earth’s largest ever extinction.
Seven expeditions to Tanzania, Zambia and Antarctica have uncovered some of the earliest fossils of pre-dinosaur creatures ever found.
They shed new light on how herbivore species – that eventually gave rise to dinosaurs – were able to compete after ancient species were decimated in a mass extinction 252million years ago. Read more…