What was the first dinosaur that ever lived on Earth?

The first dinosaurs existed on pretty much an equal footing with their archosaur, crocodile and pterosaur cousins; if you traveled back to the late Triassic period, you would never have guessed that these reptiles, above and beyond all the others, were fated to inherit the earth. read more

The bones were first discovered in 1930, in Tanzania, during a Cambridge University research mission, and have gone through a complex analysis process ever since, which resulted in scientists' supposition that the remains belonged to the oldest dinosaur ever known. read more

The first dinosaur to have walked on Earth may have been found by scientists. Nyasasaurus parringtoni would have been alive 10 to 15 million years before any previously known dinosaurs - and more than 150million years before the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. read more