A newly discovered armored lizard that lived alongside dinosaurs has been named after a villain from Tolkien’s "The Hobbit." Bolg amondol was a "goblin prince" among dinosaurs around 78 million years ...

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Stephen Colbert probably isn't the first person you would think of when casting The Hobbit but it looks like he is set to make a quick trip to Middle Earth anyway. The Hollywood Reporter's sources ...

A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah, United States, reveals a surprising diversity of large lizards at the ...

A recently published study reveals the existence of a raccoon-sized Late Cretaceous armored lizard. The research, focusing on the paleontological heritage preserved in Grand Staircase-Escalante ...

An Artistic reconstruction of Bolg amondol, depicted raiding an oviraptorosaur dinosaur nest amidst the lush Kaiparowits Formation habitat (Cullen Townsend, courtesy of Royal Society Open Science) (CN ...

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Rendered CT scan of Heloderma horridum and a skull of the modern monstersaur Heloderma horridum. (Dr. Hank Woolley via SWNS) By Stephen Beech A newly discovered armored lizard that lived alongside ...