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 ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of the Late Permian Period. Known as the Great Dying, this colossal extinction, ...

Two new species of an "iconic and bizarre" dinosaur group have been discovered in North America. Researchers found the pair of species—described in a study published in the journal Papers in ...

A previously unknown, bird-like dinosaur species that is thought to have lived around 70 million years ago has been discovered. Researchers found the fossilized remains of the "bizarre" new species in ...

A dinosaur unlike any other, adorned with an extraordinary array of armour and spikes – some reaching a metre in length – roamed a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco approximately 165 million ...

Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...

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 ...