The femur shows distinctive traits observed exclusively in ceratopsians, confirming their existence in the Middle Jurassic.

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

Prof Sertich said Lokiceratops is the fourth centrosaurine, and fifth horned dinosaur overall. He explained that while ceratopsian ancestors were widespread across the northern hemisphere ...

Researchers found that the sense of smell in early-diverging ceratopsians was more sensitive than in Protoceratops (a Late Cretaceous dinosaur in Asia) and late-diverging ceratopsids “Early ...

KOBE—Fossils found in Hyogo Prefecture are of a new genus and species of primitive ceratopsian, a plant-eating beaked dinosaur from about 110 million years ago, researchers said. The research ...

Dinosaurs in the ceratopsian family, like Triceratops, had massive bony frills and fearsome horns on top of their heads. Over time, researchers have speculated that these could have served various ...

US-China researchers have uncovered a surprising evolutionary trend in horned dinosaurs by examining their fossilized skulls. A 100-million-year evolutionary journey led horned dinosaurs down a ...

Scientists still debate the purpose of this dinosaur's iconic horns and spiky head plate. Find out what we’ve learned about how Triceratops lived and why it went extinct. Triceratops’ enormous ...

Yale graduate student Stephen Chester discovered the last known dinosaur before the catastrophic meteor impact 65 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

This is a reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni perched on the horns of the ceratopsian dinosaur Utahceratops gettyi, animals that were alive in Utah during the Late Cretaceous (75 million ...

‘Such frills can be over two metres in length and these dinosaurs have the longest known skulls of any land animal, living or extinct.’ Triceratops was the largest ceratopsian dinosaur, about twice as ...