Newtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the Triassic era to be so large is essentially unprecedented. Scientists in ...

A scatter of large bones recovered from a pond in Thailand has turned out to belong to a previously unknown long-necked ...

Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus—were the largest animals ever to walk the earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal even comes close. Now, a new ...

A new study by Dr. Jordan Mallon of the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada and Dr. David Hone of Queen Mary University of London, U.K., looks at the maximum possible sizes of dinosaurs. It is ...

Researchers think they understand how some dinosaurs grew so large. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Michael D'Emic, paleontologist at Adelphi University. If you've ever seen a cut-down tree, you've ...

The long necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth – but why were they so large? A decade ago a team of plant ecologists from South Africa suggested that this was ...

Researchers have described the new species of titanosaur dinosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei from the remains excavated at the Orcau-1 site, in the southern Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain). The semiarticulated ...

In practice, dinosaur fossils are defined by the presence of certain features in the bones of the skull, shoulder, “hand”, rear leg and hip. Dinosaurs developed an upright gait, rather than the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom have managed to identify a new species of dinosaur from a fossil found over 125 years ago, according to a recent study. The dinosaur fossil in question had been on ...

Could T. rex have been much bigger than we ever imagined? A new study using computer modeling suggests so—by as much as 70% more massive than the largest fossils found. Researchers argue that because ...