Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The claim: A 'dinosaur mummy' was recently discovered in the US Some social media users are claiming a decomposing dinosaur was ...

A Dec. 26, 2023, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Sir Richard Owen, an accomplished 19th-century anatomist credited with coining the term "dinosaur." "Sir Richard Owen, who ...

While the dinosaur featured in the April 2022 Facebook post was a joke, we discovered that the claims made within it are very much sourced in legitimate paleontological discoveries. More on that below ...

Some social media users are claiming a decomposing dinosaur was recently discovered in a U.S. forest. The posts show pictures of what appears to be a carnivorous dinosaur in a forested setting.