and Triceratops. “It had a groove on the back of the head of the femur (the bit that fits in the hip socket) for a ligament, and we only see that in cerapodans,” said Dr. Susannah Maidment, a ...

The new fossilized femur showed features that definitively ... The findings indicate that this region was a hotspot for dinosaur diversification during the Middle Jurassic. Last year, Chinese ...

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The researchers note that the fossilized femur has confirmed theories that ... The world's oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, Royal Society Open Science ...

A report of preserved fragments of nuclei and chromatin in a fossilized femur of a 125-million-year-old Caudipteryx dinosaur elicits skepticism. Chloe Tenn is a graduate of North Carolina State ...

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 ...