A dinosaur dubbed one of the "strangest" ever boasted an elaborate armoury of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, according to findings published in the science journal Nature. Spicomellus, which ...

When paleontologists uncover fossils, they do their best to understand how prehistoric animals looked and survived. But their first impressions aren’t always accurate. With broken bones, incomplete ...

(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!” ...

One of the “strangest dinosaurs” ever discovered had elaborate armour including spikes of up to a metre-long projecting out of its neck, fossils have revealed. Spicomellus, the world’s oldest ...

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the ...

A dinosaur dubbed one of the “strangest” ever found boasted an elaborate armory of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, according to findings published in the science journal Nature. Spicomellus, which ...

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 ...

It took an awful lot of clever adaptations to the produce common bird. It’s got to be light, so you give it hollow bones. It’s got to be strong, so you give it less a breastbone than a keel, to which ...