Aug 27, 2025 by News Staff

The armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs are best known from Late Cretaceous northern hemisphere ecosystems, but their early evolution in the Early-Middle Jurassic...

Jul 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur genus Zhongyuansaurus using a specimen found in China’s Henan province. Life...

Apr 14, 2025 by News Staff

Assigned to the new ichnospecies Ruopodosaurus clava, these dinosaur footprints found in northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta confirm...

Jan 13, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of ankylosaurid dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized material found at Kangdailiang Mountain (1,262 m above sea level)...

Nov 11, 2024 by Natali Anderson

A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China. The artistic reconstruction...

Feb 26, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of ankylosaurine dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in southeastern China. The type specimens of Datai yingliangis...

Jun 16, 2023 by News Staff

A new genus and species of armored ankylosaurian dinosaur has been identified from fossils found on the Isle of Wight, the United Kingdom. Vectipelta barretti....

Dec 21, 2022 by News Staff

Dinosaurs evolved a remarkable diversity of dietary adaptations throughout the Mesozoic era, but the origins of different feeding modes are uncertain....

Dec 9, 2022 by News Staff

Ankylosaurid dinosaurs were heavily armored herbivores with tails modified into club-like weapons. These tail clubs have widely been considered defensive...

Dec 8, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an almost complete skeleton found in Chilean Patagonia. An artist’s reconstruction of...

Nov 29, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur genus Tarchia that lived during the Upper Cretaceous epoch...

Sep 24, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered dinosaur species, Spicomellus afer, is the earliest-known ankylosaur and the first ankylosaur to be named from Africa. Life reconstruction...

Jun 21, 2021 by News Staff

The 110-million-year-old footprints discovered in Kent, southern England, were left by three types of dinosaurs, including theropod, ornithopod, and ankylosaur...

Jun 4, 2020 by News Staff

Paleontologists in Canada have analyzed the fossilized stomach contents from the exceptionally preserved specimen of Borealopelta markmitchelli, a species...

Jul 20, 2018 by News Staff

A new species of ankylosaurid dinosaur being named Akainacephalus johnsoni has been discovered by paleontologists Jelle Wiersma and Randall Irmis from...

Aug 3, 2017 by News Staff

An analysis of the fossilized skin of Borealopelta markmitchelli, the most well-preserved of the armored dinosaurs ever unearthed, has revealed that the...

Dec 11, 2015 by Natali Anderson

A new species of armored dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered more than two decades ago in Australia. An artist impression of Kunbarrasaurus...

Aug 31, 2015 by News Staff

Ankylosaurs are a large group of herbivorous armored dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The typical ankylosaur had a wide...

Oct 30, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered a new genus and species of ankylosaur that roamed what is now the Gobi Desert in Mongolia during the Upper Cretaceous,...

Sep 25, 2014 by News Staff

Canadian and U.S. paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of ankylosaurid dinosaur, Ziapelta sanjuanensis. Life restoration...