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 ...

But in real life, scientists have discovered a doppelgänger: Zuul crurivastator, a new genus and species of dinosaur with movie-monster looks. Well protectedOsteoderms—bony armor plates—cover ...

In 2011, archaeologists unearthed one of the most pristine dinosaur face fossils ever found: a near-complete ankylosaur, complete with its spikes, limbs, armor, and even some internal organs.

Triceratops was one of the most common dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period ... Fossil evidence supports the idea that this head armor was used in display and ritualized combat within its on ...

Ornithischians were one of the two major groups of dinosaurs and included such familiar species as the armor-plated Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus and the three-horned Triceratops. Lesothosaurus was ...