Parsing the origins and early history of dinosaurs is a challenging task. A number of prehistoric creatures were a lot like some of the earliest dinosaurs, and sometimes evolutionary cousins of early ...

Once thought to be a dinosaur, Azendohsaurus is now considered a very early and unusual plant-eating reptile. New fossil material suggests that this species, first described more than a decade ago, is ...

Following careful study of a prehistoric skull of a new species unearthed in Madagascar, Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis, it turns out Azendohsaurus is not an early dinosaur as long assumed, but rather ...

Azendohsaurus just shed its dinosaur affiliation. A careful new analysis of A. madagaskarensis—this time based on the entire skull rather than on just teeth and jaws—aligns this 230-million-year-old ...

Azendohsaurus just shed its dinosaur affiliation. A careful new analysis of A. madagaskarensis-- this time based on the entire skull rather than on just teeth and jaws -- aligns this ...