Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...
This herbivorous dinosaur, known for its heavy armor and spikes, lived approximately 110 million years ago. The recent discovery of a Borealopelta fossil with its skin intact has provided an ...
The reptiles also have “rectangular-shaped” osteoderms on their backs, bony deposits found in the skin of some reptiles and dinosaurs, creating a kind of tough armor on the top of their bodies ...
Led by Miguel Marx, a doctoral student at Lund University in Sweden, an international team of researchers studied a rare plesiosaur fossil known as MH7, which remarkably retained traces of soft ...
“The fossil was first discovered in 1973, making it Scotland’s earliest recorded dinosaur find,” according to a March 6 news release from the National Museums Scotland. “It was not fully ...