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

Palaeontologists have uncovered the world’s oldest known cerapodan dinosaur at a fossil site in Morocco, identified by a distinctive femur. We know this dinosaur group would eventually spread across ...

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

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

“If you saw them in the Cretaceous you’d almost certainly say they were made by members of the Iguanodon family.” Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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