Paleontologists have unearthed two new sauropod dinosaur species from the Hațeg Basin in western Romania. Sauropods were massive, herbivorous dinosaurs known for their long necks and tails, ...

Fifteen years ago, only five sauropod species were known from this time period. As of now, at least 11 have been identified—a stark contrast to North America, where only one sauropod species ...

KUNMING: Chinese scientists have identified a new species of Early Jurassic sauropod dinosaur, named Xingxiulong yueorum, based on a fossilised skeleton discovered in the country’s southwestern ...

About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs lumbered through forests. After they went extinct, things changed — and the effects are ...

Scientists have discovered South Africa’s youngest known dinosaur tracks along the remote coastline of the Western Cape. The newly identified footprints, estimated to be around 140 million years old, ...

By a very small margin, Spinosaurus is currently thought to have been the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaur, ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...

The researchers report on two new sauropod species, Petrustitan hungaricus and Uriash kadici, found in the fossil-rich Hațeg Basin in western Romania. Their findings reveal that the diversity of ...

“You can obviously speculate that a sauropod is going to knock down a bunch of trees,” he said. “People have thought about that for a long time. But it's also, just last year we didn't have ...

The specimen, likely to be of the ancestors of modern whales, would have helped geologists assess the paleontological ...