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 ...

Plus: a French scientist was denied entry to the US for expressing a personal opinion about Donald Trump's policies This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides ...

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, much like ...

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 ...

Find answers to your big nature questions. Delve into stories about our research, scientists and the collections we care for. Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the ...

Cerapodan dinosaurs were plant eaters and were small compared to other dinosaurs. They hopped around on two legs like modern birds. "Ornithischian" is a term scientists use to describe a type of ...