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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Madagascar produced some of the strangest predators in dinosaur history. Majungasaurus stood at the top of that list. Fossil evidence shows it fed not only on other animals, but on its own species.

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, ...

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 ...

Madagascar’s long isolation shaped unique species, including the theropod Majungasaurus, which evolved after the island separated from Gondwana. Fossil remains from the Maeverano Formation revealed ...

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 ...

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 ...