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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newtonsaurus cambrensis is very large, larger than most, if not all, contemporary predators. For a therapod dinosaur from the ...

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 ...

For 200 years, paleontologists have cataloged and named new species of dinosaurs. But it turns out the ones who named the most dinosaurs were the most likely to misinterpret their discoveries.

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 ...