The thunder lizard may be reinstated into the dino club. — -- On the edge of the solar system, the dwarf planet Pluto, which knows what it feels like to be banished from an exclusive club, may be ...

Towering above a patch of pumpkins is a 14-foot-tall skeleton of prehistoric proportion. Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, Calif. off the I-80 is home to a skeleton that resembles a brontosaurus – the ...

The dinosaur has been named Newtonsaurus cambrensis, after Isaac Newton, because, "it is different from all other dinosaurs ...

Scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada have discovered a new species of armored dinosaur and have given it a name that will be very familiar to “Ghostbusters” fans. The new species of ...

When paleontologists announced earlier this month that a mostly complete skeleton of a new species of giant sauropod dinosaur had been discovered in southwestern Patagonia, it was immediately clear ...

Bambiraptor Feinbergi is a 75-million-year-old theropod dinosaur that was named after the Disney deer Bambi. Why? Because it is small -less than a meter long. It was later determined that the fossil ...

When Nicholas Longrich discovered a new dinosaur species with a heart-shaped frill on its head, he wanted to come up with a name just as flamboyant as the dinosaur's appearance. Over a few beers with ...

In zoology, whoever discovers a new species gets to name it. Normally this isn't a big deal; at this point, the only living animal species being discovered are either some isolated sea slug or some ...

Trash pickup. Church (if you’re into that). Saturday morning brunch with Susan. (I’m sorry I missed last week, Susan. I’ll do better.) Somebody discovers a new dinosaur. Yes, dinosaurs. Michael Benton ...

Those palaeontologists who name the most new dinosaur species are the least likely to get it right, a survey of nearly two centuries of research has found. The trend is as true for modern researchers ...