The calcitic layers of the eggshells of archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds) and turtles are composed of distinctive ...

Long-necked sauropods ruled the land during the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. These plant-eating giants appeared on every ...

A newly identified dinosaur has stirred attention among paleontologists worldwide. It lived about 94 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous epoch and has been hailed as the earliest known ...

Many major groups of dinosaurs emerged during this period, including massive sauropods like cetiosaurs and brachiosaurs, sharp-toothed theropods like megalosaurs, and some early ornithopods ...

The large sauropods were likely the height of two to three elephants and moved at half the walking speed of a human, about 1.5 mph. Both types of dinosaurs would have had to have enough weight to ...

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It’s long been hypothesized that sauropods — long-necked herbivore dinosaurs such as Brachiosaurus — thinned out forests as they lumbered their way through the trees, eating their fill.

Four sets of tracks were made by a gigantic herbivorous species known as sauropods, a family of dinosaurs closely related to the Diplodocus, according to the researchers. The Brontosaurus and ...

The Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus are perhaps the most famous of the sauropods, dinosaurs defined by their long necks, long tails, small heads and four pillar-like legs. Scientists believe this ...

During the Mesozoic Era, which lasted from 230 to 66 million years ago, proto-dinosaurs known as dinosauromorphs began to diversify in hot and dry climates. Early sauropods, ornithischians ...

The dinosaur tracks belong to theropods, sauropods, and iguanodontians, and are spread across three rock outcroppings in the Brazilian state of Paraíba. The petroglyphs on the site consist ...

Throughout the years, National Geographic has created dinosaur drawings that reflect ... that paleontology was in the midst of “another revolution—one fueled by a wealth of fresh fossils ...