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

Scientists have discovered the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur fossil in Morocco, discovered back 168 million years.

Come the Cretaceous, the fossil record tells us they were ... It was a femur belonging to a cerapodan dinosaur, marking the oldest record of these animals in Earth’s history.

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

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...

Face bones unearthed in a cave suggest that members of our genus, Homo, reached northern Spain as early as 1.4 million years ago.

It could also help bridge a gap in evolutionary space between the oldest known human ancestor fossils found in Europe ... researchers found stone tools and animal bones with marks made by ...

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