Millions of years ago, a tiny dinosaur in what’s now Mongolia may have used its unique claws to steal meals in the dead of ...

(Kelly Enright) While this automotive Triceratops—we think?—from Hanksville, Utah does win some bonus points for recycling, our first thought when opening the image was “Oh geez! Kill it with fire!” ...

Long necks, short arms, elaborate frills. Did they each have a purpose? Oct. 11, 2009— -- They were among the largest and strongest creatures to inhabit Earth but, as nature would have it, some ...

Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the most extreme dinosaurs on record, lavishly adorned with armor and spikes – some about three feet (one meter ...

For decades, paleontologists thought armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs mostly roamed the Northern Hemisphere late in the Age of Dinosaurs. Their early history, especially during the Jurassic, was a ...

The earliest ankylosaur on the fossil record sported the most extreme adornments ever seen in a vertebrate animal, even other ankylosaurs. Spicomellus afer, which lived during the Middle Jurassic more ...

A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...

A dinosaur that roamed modern-day Morocco more than 165 million years ago had a neck covered in three-foot long spikes, a weapon on its tail and bony body armor, according to researchers who unearthed ...

"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of UNSW Press Ltd."--Title page verso. "From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the ...

"The armor of Spicomellus is jaw-droppingly weird, unlike that of any other dinosaur - or any other animal alive or dead - that we've ever discovered," said vertebrate paleontologist Richard Butler of ...