Researchers found that the sense of smell in early-diverging ceratopsians was more sensitive than in Protoceratops (a Late Cretaceous dinosaur in Asia) and late-diverging ceratopsids “Early ...

The massive body size led to decline Early ceratopsians were the ancestors of iconic horned dinosaurs like Triceratops. These early forms were less adorned than their later relatives. The earliest ...

A newly identified dinosaur from southwestern China is revealing what appears to be the earliest-diverging ornithischian ...

3 that the dinosaur closely resembles its relatives believed to have inhabited North America, suggesting that ceratopsians born in Asia migrated to North America during the early Cretaceous Period.

Horned dinosaurs, or ceratopsians, are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Early ceratopsians were small, bipedal dinosaurs measuring one to two ...

Early ceratopsians had larger brains relative to their body size, but as they grew bigger, their encephalization decreased, resulting in reduced sensory reliance. Dr. Fenglu Han warns that humans ...

US-China researchers have uncovered a surprising evolutionary trend in horned dinosaurs by examining their fossilized skulls. A 100-million-year evolutionary journey led horned dinosaurs down a ...

“The sense of smell in early-diverging ceratopsians is more sensitive than in Protoceratops [a Late Cretaceous dinosaur in Asia] and late-diverging ceratopsids. “Early-diverging ceratopsians ...