Paleontologists have identified Archaeocursor asiaticus, a plant-eating dinosaur from the Early Jurassic that challenges ...

Scientists suggest early Jurassic ornithischians migrated from Gondwana to East Asia, preceding armored dinosaurs.

Ornithischia is a clade of dinosaurs that, from its origins, would diversify into many later forms, such as ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, and pachycephalosaurs. While the ...

"We had absolutely no idea how the ornithischian body plan started to develop because they look so different to all the other dinosaurs. They have so many unusual features," the Cambridge ...

Millions of years of evolution later, you can see the difference. Ornithischian dinosaurs like Triceratops and Stegosaurs, lacked these air sacs. And as a result most of them weren’t very big.

This newly identified dinosaur species represents the oldest and most primitive type of ornithischian dinosaur found in Asia so far.

A team of Chinese paleontologists discovered a new dinosaur species, Archaeocursor asiaticus, in southwestern China, offering fresh insights into the early evolution of ornithischian dinosaurs in ...