The brontosaurus may finally be reinstated as a dinosaur more than a century after the name was stripped from the ranks of dinosaurs.

A new species of dinosaur that had an "eye-catching sail" along its back has been named after sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur.

Drive along Interstate-80 in Dixon, Calif. and a huge, white figure looms in the distance. At first, you can’t tell what it is, but as you speed past, a dinosaur comes into view. A dinosaur. At ...

Scientists name a newly discovered dinosaur after a famous figure.Dinosaur with a distinctive sail on its back and tail has ...

Compared with 50 years ago, dinosaur names are now based on larger quantities of fossil evidence, and that evidence is evaluated in far more detailed, scientific ways.

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 ...

This monster, complete with banana-sized teeth, joins the pantheon of great dinosaur names like the Tyrannosaurus Rex ("Tyrant Lizard King"), Brontosaurus ("Thunder Beast"), and Utahraptor ...

Some dinosaur names are ideal. Tyrannosaurus rex, for instance, is objectively the best name that anything has ever had, with Wolf Blitzer coming in a distant second. And there's the Triceratops ...

Dinosaur names have a poetry that transcends any taxonomic requirement: The names must convey the wonder that scientists feel toward these monumental, vanished beasts—and in turn capture the ...

Those paleontologists 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 ...

The more fossil species you describe, the less likely the names are to stick. Those palaeontologists who name the most new dinosaur species are the least likely to get it right, a survey of nearly ...