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 ...

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 ...

New fossil evidence reveals that this 165-million-year-old dinosaur possessed meter-long spikes fused to its skeleton and possibly one of the earliest known tail weapons in dinosaurs. The findings ...

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 ...

A team led by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno has described a new species of spinosaur from the central Sahara, a fish-eating giant called Spinosaurus mirabilis that sports a scimitar ...

Imagine going to a concert that recreates the soundscape of a prehistoric swamp, where each instrument in the orchestra is modeled after a different dinosaur. That could eventually be possible with an ...

In a new paper, researchers describe a bizarre dinosaur with thorny spines along its neck and back that made its home in Africa more than 165... A dinosaur that roamed modern-day Morocco more than 165 ...