In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

A team of paleontologists from the Natural History Museum in the U.K., the University of Birmingham, also in the U.K., and ...

A fossil unearthed in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco is now officially the oldest-known plant-eating cerapodan ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

The femur shows distinctive traits observed exclusively in ceratopsians, confirming their existence in the Middle Jurassic.

Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the oldest example was a 164-million-year-old ...

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A discovery in Morocco has unveiled the oldest Cerapodan dinosaur fossils on the planet – dating back 174 million years.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur fossil, dating back 168 million years. A team from the Natural History Museum and the University of Birmingham in the UK and Morocco's ...