The earliest known armored dinosaur did not just carry a few defensive plates, it bristled with spikes so extreme that its ...

Eric Warner is a Journalist and Multimedia Producer based in New England with over seven years of experience producing stories for multiple print, online, radio, and video publications. Eric has been ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish. "Much of what we have today has been around ...

Eric Warner is a Journalist and Multimedia Producer based in New England with over seven years of experience producing stories for multiple print, online, radio, and video publications. Eric has been ...

Superhydrophobic materials offer a strategy for developing marine anti-corrosion materials due to their low solid-liquid contact area and low surface energy. However, existing superhydrophobic ...

Armor Beyond Imagination Spicomellus wore armor like no other dinosaur. Long, blade-like spikes erupted from its ribs, fused so tightly to the bone that they became part of the skeleton itself. Across ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ancient armored fish. That zing in your teeth from a cold treat? Blame this ...

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