The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Author Steve Brusatte summarizes how dinosaurs we know best, like Tyrannosaurus Rex and Brontosaurus, came to be. And, he tells John how mammals came into existence ...

In 1989, the U.S. Postal Service released a collection of 25-cent commemorative postage stamps celebrating a series of dinosaurs. The stamps featured the tyrannosaurus, and the stegosaurus, and the ...

After more than a century of extinction in the scientific community, the name Brontosaurus may be ready to return to the ranks of its dinosaur brethren. A study published on Tuesday by the open-access ...

“Brontosaurus” should have disappeared a long time ago. Paleontologist Elmer Riggs recognized that the famous “thunder lizard” was a synonym of Apatosaurus more than a century ago, and a 1936 ...

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 ...

Michael D'Emic is a paleontologist, research instructor at Stony Brook University, and research associate at the Burpee Museum of Natural History. When I first tell someone I’m a paleontologist, I get ...

In her helpful Slate piece on how to avoid and mitigate flight delays, Amy Webb stresses that the savvy air traveler must invest energy in grooming the airport staff. “Stand next to the gate agent, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paleontologists are restoring the good name of Brontosaurus more than a century after it was deemed scientifically invalid and the famous dinosaur was reclassified as another ...