The first dinosaurs may have originated in Scotland, suggests research contradicting the belief that they were from the southern hemisphere.
Saltopus elginensis roamed the part of the earth that is now northeast Scotland millions of years ago. The claim is one of the conclusions of the first detailed re-evaluation of dinosaur evolution for 130 years.
Until now many scientists have subscribed to the view that the first dinosaurs emerged about 237 million years ago on the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which became the southern hemisphere.
However, the latest analysis, which will be published next week in Nature, -read more
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