The cast of the skull of Nigersaurus. The fossil skull of Nigersaurus was one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally reconstructed from CT scans. Photograph by Ira Block, Nat Geo Image ...
This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s how Nigersaurus was built for nonstop grazing. The cast of the skull of ...
This planet once played host to a massive dinosaur that packed more than 500 teeth into its jaws. That might sound like a terrifying prospect at first, but the creature in question wasn't a vicious ...
A stout sauropod with a shovel-shaped muzzle mowed Earth's greenery about 110 million years ago like a cow with hundreds of tiny teeth, a paleontologist said today. The first bones from this dinosaur ...
With a body as big as an elephant and a bizarrely toothy face at the end of a 6-foot neck, a skeleton unveiled Thursday by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno is making scientists ...
The name Nigersaurus might not sound familiar, but its anatomy defies imagination. With 500+ teeth arranged in neat rows, it ...
A dinosaur with a permanent smile and jaws packed with 1,000 teeth has been unearthed in an African desert by scientists who describe it as one of the most bizarre animals ever to walk on four legs.
Perhaps it was one of those eureka moments, when the scientists realized they had discovered a new dinosaur with mouth parts designed to vacuum up food. The 110 million-year-old plant eater, ...
A thread on Digg relating to a new dinosaur discovery in Africa is raising eyebrows and not for the right reason. The thread on the “Nigersaurus” (here) contains comments such as “I wonder what made ...
Perhaps it was one of those eureka moments, when the scientists realized they had discovered a new dinosaur with mouth parts designed to vacuum up food. The 110 million-year-old plant eater, ...