About 110 million years ago in what’s now Alberta, Canada, a dinosaur resembling a 2,800-pound pineapple ended up dead in a river. Today, that dinosaur is one of the best fossils of its kind ever ...

A 110-million-year-old fossil found nine years ago at an open pit mine in Alberta is providing fascinating new details about the dietary habits of plant-eating armored dinosaurs and the environments ...

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An illustration depicting Borealopelta markmitchelli, a dinosaur that lived 110 million years ago whose remains were found in Alberta, Canada. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology It was 18 feet long ...

In March 2011, a Canadian backhoe operator unearthed what paleontologists now call one of the most extraordinary fossil finds of all time. At a sprawling open-pit oil sands operation near Fort ...

Borealopelta markmitchelli found its way back into the sunlight in 2017, millions of years after it had died. This armored dinosaur is so magnificently preserved that we can see what it looked like in ...

In 2011 a heavy machine operator in a Canadian oilsands mine struck his shovel on an extraordinary find — the most exquisitely preserved armored dinosaur the world has ever seen. On Thursday, it ...

An artist's rendering shows the armored dinosaur Borealopelta markmitchelli eating ferns, which new research shows made up the majority of its diet. © Royal Tyrrell ...

This armored dinosaur is a paleontologist’s dream. Named Borealopelta in 2017, the dinosaur’s fossil preserves a great deal of its bony armor in place. In fact, the animal is so intricately preserved ...

Some dinosaurs’ elaborate armor unquestionably helped them in a fight. But for at least one Cretaceous animal, a body covered in bony plates may have been vital for finding love, too. Careful study of ...