The image of the hulking T. rex and its comically undersized arms is deeply ingrained in pop culture, but it isn’t really fair. They were muscular little appendages well-suited to their evolutionary ...

Scientists have analysed the well-preserved skin of one of the “strangest carnivorous dinosaurs ever discovered” in unprecedented detail and found that its complex coat was made up of different ...

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The skulls and necks of Majungasaurus (top) and Carnotaurus (bottom) compared. From Méndez, 2012 Carnotaurus was a weirdo. Not only did this 26-foot predator of Argentina’s Late Cretaceous have ...

Carnotaurus ’ hide—as demonstrated by fossilized skin impressions—was covered in small scales with a smattering of bony lumps called “osteoderms” tossed in for good measure. 9. It’s Related to an ...