A small, toothy dinosaur known as Eoraptor, long considered to be the earliest member of the predatory branch of the dinosaur tree, is revealed to have traits that instead place it at the base of ...

Two nasty-looking little critters that roamed a remote valley of Argentina 230 million years ago point to a key fork in the road of early dinosaur evolution, when some predatory dinosaurs turned away ...

The oldest dinosaurs yet discovered date back nearly 230m years to the Late Triassic epoch. Fossils of Herrerasaurus and Eoraptor were discovered in Argentina; both were bipedal carnivores ...

The dinosaur family tree just added a new relative: a small, nipping, meat-eating creature dating back to dinosaurs’ earliest days. Unearthed in 230-million-year-old rocks in Argentina, in life this ...

WASHINGTON — A team of scientists working in Argentin has found the closest thing yet to the granddaddy of all dinosaurs, an artful dodger that was about the size of a small dog and sprinted after ...

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Two nasty looking little critters that roamed a remote valley of Argentina 230 million years ago point to a key divergence of early dinosaur evolution, when some predatory dinosaurs turned away from ...

What the name means "early plunderer" or "dawn plunderer" Named by Sereno, Forster, Rogers and Monetta (1993) Where found Argentina Length up to 1m Height 1m Weight 10kg How it moved on two legs Teeth ...