Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin, US, have discovered a dinosaur-like creature 10 million years older than the earliest known dinosaurs. Asilisaurus kongwe is a newly discovered herbivore that lived during the middle Triassic period - about 245 million years ago.
The scientists say that its age suggests that dinosaurs were also on the Earth earlier than previously thought. The study was led by Dr Sterling Nesbitt who sais: This new evidence suggests that dinosaurs were really only one of several large and distinct groups of animals that exploded in diversity in the Triassic period, including silesaurs, pterosaurs, and several groups of crocodilian relatives.
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