An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...

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

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

The recently discovered femur shows features that definitively identify it as belonging to a cerapodan, including a groove on ...

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Cerapodans were a group of small, plant-eating dinosaurs that hopped on two legs, much like modern birds.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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A 168 million-year-old dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco is reshaping our understanding of cerapodan evolution.

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