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ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush ...

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...

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The other clips reveal facts from other parts of this huge continent including: Egypt, in the north of this continent, famed for its ancient pyramids Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa ...

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The Amazon basin in South America and Congo basin and Sahara Desert in Africa today are what remains of Gondwana. [ Related: 200-million-year-old dinosaur poop and vomit reveal a lost Jurassic world.