In 2002, experts announced that long, bristle-like structures had been found along the tail of an exceptional fossil of the small horned dinosaur Psittacosaurus. The dinosaur’s bristles are ...

Like Psittacosaurus and Segisaurus, it represents a class of fascinating, real-life dinosaurs that were sacrificed for more dramatic or better-known species. Fans of the obscure dinosaurs are ...

Filaments are found elsewhere in the dinosaur family tree as well, in species far removed from theropods, such as Psittacosaurus, a parrot-faced herbivore that arose around 130 million years ago.

It’s a measure of this diversity that, in addition to its other displays, the museum in Sihetun will house 26 different specimens—from fish to a parrot-faced dinosaur called Psittacosaurus ...

A science team and palaeoartist have created a life-size Psittacosaurus model that features real colour patterns. It has been hailed as the most scientifically accurate dinosaur reconstruction to date ...

Find out how scientists and a palaeoartist created a life-size model of Psittacosaurus featuring real colour patterns, and what this revealed about the dinosaur's life.

The Lujiatun Member of the Yixian Formation is well-known for its abundance of vertebrate fossils, particularly Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis, a small ceratopsian dinosaur that constituted almost ...