An extinct species known as Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae has revealed new twists in the tale of lizards and their relatives.

The 13-foot dinosaur, covered in long spikes fused into its bones, suggests ankylosaurs developed tail weapons 30 million ...

A dinosaur dubbed one of the "strangest" ever found boasted an elaborate armory of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, ...

Discovery reveals a previously undocumented 30-million-year gap in dragonfly evolution. For the first time in Canadian paleontology, a fossilized dragonfly wing from the Cretaceous period has been ...

Researchers have discovered a fossil in Morocco of a dinosaur species that roamed the plains of northern Africa at least 165 ...

Scientists have discovered that the world's oldest armored dinosaur sported the most extreme defensive features ever found in any vertebrate, living or extinct. The 165-million-year-old Spicomellus ...

For decades, paleontologists thought armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs mostly roamed the Northern Hemisphere late in the ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur which had metre-long spikes sticking out from its neck. The species, called Spicomellus afer, lived 165 million years ago, and is the oldest ...

One of the “strangest dinosaurs” ever discovered had elaborate armour including spikes of up to a metre-long projecting out ...

The most complete fossil of an ichthyosaur ever found in Australia will soon be shown in an outback museum.

The Spicomellus is “totally unlike anything else that we have ever seen,” said a co-lead of a study on the dinosaur, which ...