A team of archaeologists and paleontologists from Argentina, the U.S. and China has unearthed the first known example of a ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on the early evolution of these herbivorous dinosaurs. Unearthed in the El ...

The fossils belong to an early cerapodan, a clade that would later give rise to Triceratops and other iconic dinosaurs from the Cretaceous. “It had a groove on the back of the head of the femur ...

A fossil unearthed in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco is now officially the oldest-known plant-eating cerapodan dinosaur, pushing back the evolutionary timeline of this major herbivorous group ...

The recently discovered femur shows features that definitively identify it as belonging to a cerapodan, including a groove on the back of the head, a distinctive trait observed exclusively in ...

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A team of international paleontologists has unearthed the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur in Morrocco. Cerapodans were a group of small, plant-eating dinosaurs that hopped on two legs ...

Cerapodan dinosaur fossil found in Bathonian rock layers. Credit: Susannah Maidment / CC BY 4.0 Scientists have uncovered the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur fossil, dating back 168 million years. A ...

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 ...

Examine remarkable fossil evidence of long-ago events in the Last Impressions gallery. From 200-million-year-old wave ripples on beach sand to a petrified tree stump, dinosaur footprints, and a giant ...