No one really knows when dinosaurs evolved. Hoping to clear up this mystery, researchers have been studying the mysterious fossil of Nyasasaurus parringtoni, which predates all other dinosaurs by 10 ...

A restoration of Nyasasaurus in its Middle Triassic habitat, based on the known bones and comparisons to closely related forms. Art by Mark Witton. For the past twenty years, Eoraptor has represented ...

Nyasasaurus parringtoni may take the crown as the oldest dinosaur fossil known to science. It lived during the Middle Triassic around 243 million years ago, and left behind remains that predate other ...

The first dinosaur to have walked the Earth may have been discovered by researchers in the corridors of London's Natural History Museum. A mysterious fossil specimen that has been in the museum's ...

Researchers have discovered what may be the earliest dinosaur, a creature the size of a Labrador retriever, but with a five foot-long tail, that walked the Earth about 10 million years before more ...

A reconstruction of what a Nyasasaurus parringtoni would have looked like 243 million years ago (Natural History Museum, London / Mark Witton) Remains of the world's oldest dinosaur have been ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A creature no bigger than a labrador with a metre-long tail that roamed the Earth more than 240 million years ago may have been the ...

AN ARM bone found more than 80 years ago have now been identified as the remains of what may be the world's oldest dinosaur. Scientists now believe Nyasasaurus parringtoni stood upright, was two to ...

An arm bone and a handful of vertebrae have yielded a surprising truth: The age of the dinosaur began earlier than anyone ever suspected. A new bone analysis of fossils collected in Tanzania in the ...

Researchers have discovered the fossils of what might be the earliest known dinosaur. But they didn't find them in the ground - they found them sitting on a shelf. The fossils of the dinosaur, ...