The ESRF had an extraordinary and ancient visitor this week: the most complete fossil skeleton ever found of the small plant-eating dinosaur, heterondontosaurus tucki, which roamed the earth 200 ...

Heterodontosaurus was a weird little animal—one that has been surprising scientists since its discovery in 1962. Prepare to be perplexed. 1. Its Dentition Was Complicated (By Reptile Standards).

An international team of scientists has used high-powered X-rays at the European Synchrotron to show how an extinct South African 200-million-year-old dinosaur, Heterodontosaurus tucki, breathed. An ...

Heterodontosaurs were freaky. If you don’t believe me, check out the time-lapse reconstruction of this Heterodontosaurus head by artist Tyler Keillor. Released earlier this month in conjunction with a ...

Scientists have identified one of the smallest dinosaur skulls ever discovered as coming from a very young Heterodontosaurus, an early dinosaur. This juvenile weighed about 200 grams. This skull ...

Scientists used high-energy X-rays to non-invasively reconstruct the skeletal structure of a 200 million-year-old dinosaur. In this picture, two Gallimimus dinosaur skeletons are on display during a ...

When I was in elementary school, I was taught that one of the ways to tell a reptile from a mammal was by looking at their teeth. Reptiles, like lizards and crocodiles, had a mouth full of nearly ...

There are a variety of ways that animals breathe. When the diaphragm muscle moves in humans, our lungs expand and take in air, and we exhale and compress the lungs, it goes in the opposite direction.

High-energy X-rays of a primitive species of dinosaur are providing palaeontologists with an unprecedented view of its brain and physical characteristics – details which will shed light on the ...

The world's second smallest known dinosaur skull belonged to a toothy heterodontosaur whose appetite probably far exceeded the size of its head, suggests a new study that proposes the dino consumed ...

One of the world's smallest ever dinosaur skulls has been discovered and scientists believe it may fill a gap in their knowledge about why some of the creatures turned vegetarian. Dinosaur ancestor of ...

An international team of scientists has used high-powered X-rays at the European Synchrotron, the ESRF, to show how an extinct South African dinosaur, Heterodontosaurus tucki, breathed. The study is ...