Tag Archive for 'Borealopelta'

Life reconstruction of the armored dinosaur Borealopelta markmitchelli, which lived in what is now Alberta, Canada, some 110 million years ago, eating ferns. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi / Royal Tyrrell Museum.

Armored Herbivorous Dinosaur Preferred Fern Leaves

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...

A reconstruction of Borealopelta markmitchelli indicating the stressful life it must have lived with the constant chance of being eaten. Image credit: Robert Nicholls.

Meet Borealopelta markmitchelli, ‘Best-Preserved Armored Dinosaur’

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...