Dinosaurs created temporary reefs. At least, the ones whose bodies floated out to sea did. Even though there were no aquatic dinosaurs, dead dinosaurs sometimes washed down rivers to the coast. When ...

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Armored, squat, and built like a tank, ankylosaurs were a type of dinosaur known for their bony, protective exterior and distinct, sledgehammer-shaped tails. Now, scientists have pieced together how ...

How did the ankylosaur get its tail club? According to research that traces the evolution of the ankylosaur's distinctive tail, the handle arrived first on the scene, and the knot at the end of the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Ankylosaurs were terrible swimmers. It’s hard ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana. The new dinosaur, a species of ankylosaur is the biological ...

German and Austrian scientists took a closer look at the braincase of a dinosaur from Austria. The group examined the fossil with a micro-CT and found surprising new details: it was sluggish and deaf.