“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 ...

Many dinosaurs had distinctive bony frills around their necks – the best-known being the Triceratops. It’s not a feature found in living animals today, and paleontologists have long debated what the ...

Protoceratops dinosaurs used their large skull frills to flirt with potential mates – and not as defence as previously thought, a new study reveals. Researchers at London's Natural History Museum say ...

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 ...

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 ...

The horns, frills and crests of dinosaurs have helped cement their reputation as heavily armed, and armoured, beasts in the public imagination. But these eye-catching features may have in fact been ...

Comparisons between the skeleton of Protoceratops and ancient griffin art. The griffins are all very obviously based on big cats, from their musculature and long, flexible tails to the manes ...