Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

“The first concepts of horned dinosaurs definitely focused on the horns as potential weapons against predators or in fights with members of their own species,” says Raymond M. Alf Museum of ...

In a new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists took a close look at the development of armored plates and horns in 46 different dinosaur species and discovered that ...

Answer: Lokiceratops rangiformis, a plant-eating dinosaur with a very fancy set of horns. The new dinosaur was identified and named by Colorado State University affiliate faculty member Joseph ...

Scientists still debate the purpose of this dinosaur's iconic horns and spiky head plate. Find out what we’ve learned about how Triceratops lived and why it went extinct. Triceratops’ enormous ...

Browse your favourite dinosaurs or start with our top five. Triceratops was a plant-eater with specialised teeth for cutting and slicing and a huge stomach for digesting tough plant matter. It would ...

What’s so great about a dinosaur hood ornament? Scientists have thought for years that horns and crests helped dinosaurs communicate and display dominance. But the new finding goes one step ...

Borealopelta’s massive shoulder spikes could have acted like a bull’s horns or an elephant’s ... The terrifying dinosaur of the day, 110 million years ago, was Acrocanthosaurus, a killing ...

The dinosaur's neck vertebrae might not have been strong enough to survive such collisions without breaking. Pachycephalosaurus's dome, like the large horns and antlers of some modern animals ...

Dr. Fenglu Han warns that humans might face similar sensory declines as we become overly dependent on technology, a lesson drawn from these dinosaurs. Larger horns and frills came at a sensory ...