A nodosaurid ankylosaur revealed to the public this week showed exceptionally preserved parts and signs of strong predation pressure. This dinosaur was first discovered back on March 21, 2011 by ...

Researchers from Bristol University have reconstructed the color patterns of a Cretaceous-era Psittacosaurus, revealing not just its colors and distinct shading patterns, but also clues about the life ...

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Remember drawing dinosaurs in grade school, when the teacher would tell you to use any color you like, because we’ll never know for sure what these amazing prehistoric beasts looked like? Forget that ...

As the largest predatory fish on Earth, great white sharks are already impressive, armed with up to 300 serrated teeth and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Now, new research adds more intrigue to the ...

Sometimes body armor just isn’t enough. A car-sized dinosaur covered in bony plates may have sported camo, too, researchers report online August 3 in Current Biology. That could mean the ...

Scientists studied the well-preserved remains of a dinosaur to find that it exhibited a defense mechanism called countershading, similar to camouflage in present-day animals. MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES ...

After reconstructing the color patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers have found that the long-lost species called Psittacosaurus (meaning "parrot lizard," a reference to its ...

THIS fossil dinosaur, called Borealopelta markmitchelli, is about the size of a rhinoceros. It belongs to a group of armoured dinosaurs called ankylosaurs that thrived during the Cretaceous period.

Surrounded by hungry predators, a little plant-eating dinosaur from the early Cretaceous did the only sensible thing. It donned camouflage. Analysis of the exquisitely preserved fossil remains has ...