While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have remained a mystery. But for the first time ever, researchers at Sweden’s Lund ...

In 2011, archaeologists unearthed one of the most pristine dinosaur face fossils ever found: a near-complete ankylosaur, complete with its spikes, limbs, armor, and even some internal organs. 1 ...

I read a while back that there are likely still hundreds of dinosaur species out there waiting to be found. Something about ...

The smooth skin on the tail likely reduced water resistance ... dominating the seas while dinosaurs ruled the land. Characterized by their long necks and small heads, often compared to those ...

An international team of paleontologists, geoscientists and biologists has found via analysis of melanosome patterns in ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have identified preserved organic molecules in the skin of a dinosaur that died around 66-million years ago. The well-preserved fossil of the plant-eating ...

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 ...

a new genus and species of dinosaur with movie-monster looks. Well protectedOsteoderms—bony armor plates—cover Zuul’s skin. Their thorny shapes are exaggerated by brownish sheaths once made ...