Fifteen years ago, Mark Norell, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, discovered a clutch of dinosaur ...

“The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things,” paleontologist Jack Horner said during his talk about dinosaurs and evolution the other night, “but it’s not a complete record.” Many of the ...

A Protoceratops skeleton with an associated track (outlined in a box near the hips). From Niedźwiedzki et al., 2011 Earlier this week I wrote about a herd of small sauropods that once walked along the ...

New research has found the neck frill of ceratopsians, a colourful bulge on top of their head and neck, likely came about to attract mates. Experts have long sought to determine why dinosaurs had ...

A small sheep-sized dinosaur that lived more than 70 million years ago evolved to have a “huge” neck frill as a result of sexual selection, according to scientists. The protoceratops, a 1.8m-long ...

Back in 1971, in the deserts of ancient Mongolia, two dinosaurs once locked in battle and were preserved together in stone. This never before seen fossil sparked the famous question: if Protoceratops ...