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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is not often that somebody gets to name a dinosaur. Robert M. Sullivan, senior curator of paleontology and geology at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg recently got that chance. He ...

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 ...

Many kids can recite an A-Z list of dinosaur names. They take special delight in defeating tongue-twisters like Carcharodontosaurus, Ekrixinatosaurus, Huehuecanauhtlus and Zuchengtyrannus. Sir Richard ...

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 ...

Everybody is familiar with the dinosaur Tryannosaurus rex, but did you know that it was a tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroid? It's true, and you really did read that last line correctly.

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard aren’t dinosaur experts — they just play them on the screen. Still, the stars of 2015’s megahit Jurassic World and its new sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, ...