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 ...

“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 ...

The Brontosaurus may be back. Not that it ever really went away, at least not in the minds of generations of people who grew up watching Fred Flintstone devour one of his beloved Brontosaurus burgers.

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 ...

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 ...