A meat-eating dinosaur that was one of the last to walk Earth replaced its teeth as often as modern sharks do, scientists have discovered. Majungasaurus, which lived between 66 and 70 million years ...

Seventy million years ago, Madagascar’s top predator was a lumpy-headed oddball whose diet would have done Hannibal Lecter proud. You might assume the dinosaurs were merely fighting each other, but ...

Dinosaurs may have gone extinct 65 million years ago thanks to a massive asteroid impact, but one of the last species on the planet had something in common with one of today's most fearsome creatures ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Majungasaurus never needed dental work. If it had tooth problems, it ...

A fearsome carnivorous dinosaur known for eating its own kind probably wasn't holding onto its meal as it ate: Its arms were far too short and stubby, a new fossil find suggests. Majungasaurus ...

A meat-eating dinosaur species that lived in Madagascar some 70 million years ago replaced all its teeth every couple of months or so, a new study has found, surprising even the researchers. In fact, ...

Majungasaurus is one cool theropod. Not only does is have a neat, knobby skull but the numerous remains of this dinosaur allowed for an entire series of papers on it to appear in the Society of ...

With its blade-like teeth and formidable claws, Majungasaurus crenatissimus was one of the world’s most fearsome predators, but new research reveals that it also possessed some of the animal kingdom's ...

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 ...

Arthritis. Cancer. Infections. Fractures. Afflictions only humans have to deal with? Apparently not, as the rock record has serendipitously preserved numerous example of these pathologies in a wide ...

A few months ago, I wrote about a big, carnivorous dinosaur with what may have been the wimpiest arms of all time. No, not Tyrannosaurus, but a very distantly related predatory dinosaur from ...