When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While this herbivorous dinosaur was a massive animal, a re-examination of its fossils in 2004 by ...

The ankylosaurus, already the best dinosaur, has been further improved. Spicomellus afer, sporting what the BBC describes as "punk rock" dermal armor along its head and back, is at 165m years the ...

An incredible dinosaur path, which even shows the tracks of a baby dinosaur, has been discovered at NASA’s Space Flight Center. The tracks of at least 70 mammals and dinosaurs from more than 100 ...

No longer are dinosaur fossils only the casts of bones you see strung together in museums, with illustrations depicting what they looked like. This time, scientists have found a dinosaur preserved in ...

Ankylosaurus magniventris was the prehistoric tank of the late Cretaceous period, some 70 million to 66 million years ago. This enormous four-legged dinosaur had a squat body covered with bony plates ...

An armored dinosaur known as an ankylosaurus looked so much like Zuul from the 1984 movie "Ghostbusters" that paleontologists made the monster the dinosaur's namesake. The newly discovered dinosaur, ...

Predators would have had to flip the squat, four-legged animal over, exposing its unprotected underbelly, to find a weak spot. Ankylosaurus's distinctive plates did more than deflect blows—they could ...