Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

The study shows that the armor of this Cretaceous-period herbivore could withstand forces equivalent to a high-speed car crash, offering new insights into dinosaur defense mechanisms. Discovered ...

Ankylosaur armor could likely withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, the best-preserved dinosaur fossil on record has revealed. The fossil belonged to a nodosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur ...

The reptiles also have “rectangular-shaped” osteoderms on their backs, bony deposits found in the skin of some reptiles and dinosaurs, creating a kind of tough armor on the top of their bodies ...

Triceratops was one of the most common dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Its most prominent features are on its head: two long brow horns, a nasal horn, and a bony frill. Its frill had no ...