To confirm this really was a Middle Jurassic stegosaur, finding where the bones originally came from was vital. There were no vertebrate palaeontologists in Morocco at the time, so Susannah began ...

Spicomellus roamed the earth 165 million years ago and had bony spikes projecting from all of its ribs. One of the “strangest ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that fossilized remains of marine ...

A tiny fossil of a sea creature that lived more than half a billion years ago sheds new light on the evolution of arthropods, the most species-rich and successful group of animals to inhabit Earth, ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Ankylosaurs were a herbivorous group of dinosaurs known for their armoured, tank-like bodies and a club-shaped tail tip. Remains found by a team of palaeontologists have helped to build upon the ...

Scientists say new fossils show Spicomellus afer, the world’s oldest ankylosaur, had “extreme” armor and a tail weapon tens of millions of years before other species.

With its bizarre 'punk rocker' spikes, this newly discovered dinosaur could have been equally at home in the 1970s as the Cretaceous era.

A remarkable fossil unearthed in Africa is rewriting the story of dinosaur origins. The 225-million-year-old leg bone, ...

The Spicomellus is “totally unlike anything else that we have ever seen,” said a co-lead of a study on the dinosaur, which ...

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Newly discovered teeth from Ethiopia reveal that early humans coexisted with a mysterious cousin species, reshaping our ...