Ankylosaur armor could likely withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, the best-preserved dinosaur fossil on record has revealed. The fossil belonged to a nodosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur ...

Dino Armor Secrets This nodosaur’s structure hints that other armored dinosaurs, like horned species, may also have had similarly thick keratin, giving new insight into prehistoric defenses.

But in real life, scientists have discovered a doppelgänger: Zuul crurivastator, a new genus and species of dinosaur with movie-monster looks. Well protectedOsteoderms—bony armor plates—cover ...

Ornithischians were one of the two major groups of dinosaurs and included such familiar species as the armor-plated Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus and the three-horned Triceratops. Lesothosaurus was ...