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 ...

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Missouri’s official state dinosaur: “Parrosaurus missouriensis.” (Image courtesy: Shutterstock) JOPLIN, Mo. — Like most states in the U.S., Missouri has a complicated geological past. Several times ...

You may not know the term “hadrosaur,” but you can probably visualize the dinosaur it refers to. Also known as the “duck-billed dinosaur” because the bones in their snouts look like the beaks on ducks ...

Researchers have announced the naming of Savannasaurus elliottorum, a new genus and species of dinosaur from western Queensland, Australia. The bones come from the Winton Formation, a geological ...

A new species of dinosaur discovered in Australia has been confirmed as the largest ever found in the country, and one of the biggest in the world.The fossilized skeleton, nicknamed "Cooper," was ...

A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of ...