The earliest known armored dinosaur did not just carry a few defensive plates, it bristled with spikes so extreme that its neck looked like a living barricade. New research on this Jurassic ankylosaur ...

First described in 2001, the dinosaur was first identified as a type of armored dinosaur known as an ankylosaur. Since then, multiple Liaoningosaurus fossils have been discovered, but strangely, none ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have revealed a new species of armored dinosaur with a ...

The world's most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realized. Research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ...

Footprints of armored dinosaurs with tail clubs have been identified, following discoveries made in the Canadian Rockies. The 100-million-year-old fossilized footprints were found at sites at both ...

Paleontologists in the UK and Morocco have shed light on the appearance of the world's oldest armored dinosaur after they discovered rare fossils that reveal its bizarre, spike-covered body. The ...

Ankylosaurs, a group of dinosaurs often compared to Pokémon, were built like walking tanks, with bony armor plating their backs and sides. They lived during the Late Jurassic (164 to 145 million years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The heavily armoured Spicomellus lived more than 165 million years ago in what is now Morocco One of the world's strangest ...

Newswise — Fossils of a new genus and species of an ankylosaurid dinosaur—Akainacephalus johnsoni-- have been unearthed in the Kaiparowits Formation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument ...

The discovery itself was amazing. The discovery was back in 2011. Since then, researchers have determined the armored beast that weighed almost 3,000 pounds is a new species of nodosaur. It's called ...

The tracks show that two types of ankylosauruses co-existed at a time and place where they were once thought to be extinct. About 100 million years ago, a previously unknown armored dinosaur wielding ...