Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. (Dinosaur Knowledge Challenge: Nigersaurus is just one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cast of the skull of Nigersaurus. The fossil skull of Nigersaurus was one of the first dinosaur skulls to be digitally ...

Nigersaurus was a plant eating dinosaur known for its wide mouth lined with more than 500 slender teeth Its skull was lightweight and unusually shaped allowing it to graze close to the ground The ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s how Nigersaurus was built for nonstop grazing. The cast of the skull of ...

This planet once played host to a massive dinosaur that packed more than 500 teeth into its jaws. That might sound like a terrifying prospect at first, but the creature in question wasn't a vicious ...

Most people imagine fierce dinosaurs when they think about the species that lived millions of years ago. One of the most peculiar dinosaurs known to have existed is not only friendly and vegetarian ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts --The uneasy life of a 1,000-toothed dinosaur "lawnmower" -- and how it fell prey to giant crocodiles -- has been unveiled to scientists. Nigersaurus had so many teeth it has ...

First discovered in the deserts of Niger, it would take 30 years to realize that the bones discovered were a new dinosaur species that had some surprises. During the Cretaceous period 110 millions of ...

Could an elephant-size dinosaur with a skull so thin that a karate chop would have split it in two, teeth it shed once a month and a brain that, yes, was the size of a walnut, ever be considered one ...

A thread on Digg relating to a new dinosaur discovery in Africa is raising eyebrows and not for the right reason. The thread on the “Nigersaurus” (here) contains comments such as “I wonder what made ...