Possible earliest dinosaur was the size of a Labrador

Bones discovered in the 1930s belong to either the earliest dinosaur or the closest dinosaur relative discovered to date.

The remains, consisting of an upper arm bone and six vertebrae, indicate Nyasasurus parringtoni, was the same size as a labrador but with a five-foot long tail.

The creature's bones date from the Middle Triassic period -- around 10 million years before the rest of the earliest-known dinosaurs -- and were discovered by Rex Parrington of Cambridge University in Tanzania.

By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Olivia Solon

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via Wired.co.uk



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