In the rugged badlands of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, a dinosaur bristling with spikes once lumbered across the ...

Spiked armor, tyrannosaurids, and new discoveries from the early development of birds mark important milestones in 2025.

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Soft tissue traces of the ankylosaur Tarchia. Black asterisks denote large osteoderms, scale impressions are pointed out by an arrowhead and small ossicles are identified by the arrow. From Arbour et ...

Dinosaurs created temporary reefs. At least, the ones whose bodies floated out to sea did. Even though there were no aquatic dinosaurs, dead dinosaurs sometimes washed down rivers to the coast. When ...

Armored, squat, and built like a tank, ankylosaurs were a type of dinosaur known for their bony, protective exterior and distinct, sledgehammer-shaped tails. Now, scientists have pieced together how ...

The Natural History Museum has announced the discovery of a new ankylosaur species that, the scientists discovered, had a unique type of armor that hasn't been observed on any other vertebrates — ...

The ankylosaurs were a very impressive group of dinosaurs covered in armored plates with clubs for tails (that may have sounded like birds), but we’ve just discovered that the oldest known member of ...

How did the ankylosaur get its tail club? According to research that traces the evolution of the ankylosaur's distinctive tail, the handle arrived first on the scene, and the knot at the end of the ...

A dinosaur named for a demon dog in “Ghostbusters” had a sledgehammer attached to its rear. A new study found it could both shatter shins and woo potential mates. By Jack Tamisiea To ward off ...

Ankylosaurs were heavily armored herbivorous dinosaurs with bony plates all along their wide backs. They were the tanks of their time, and some even carried a giant club at the end of their tail.

Fossils found in Chile are from a strange-looking dog-sized dinosaur species that had a unique slashing tail weapon, scientists reported Wednesday. Some dinosaurs had spiked tails they could use as ...