At about 80 feet long, an adult Diplodocus would have required a huge amount of food to fuel its bulk. But how did these huge dinosaurs actually eat? We know from the anatomy of their skulls, and ...

Scientists have long been trying to reconstruct the appearance of dinosaurs. The tidbits they are able to piece together from fossils and other analysis are displayed in museums, educational materials ...

For decades, paleontologists have tried to piece together an image of the enormous herbivorous dinosaur Diplodocus, but until ...

Over 2,000 miles from the Museum of Natural History in New York City, where many of the world's prehistoric fossils reside, a team of scientists found a rare Diplodocus dinosaur skull, the smallest of ...

What did dinosaurs look like? It’s not easy to figure out when all you have to go on is scant fossil evidence, but every now and then a rare find gives us a fresh glimpse into the past. Most recently, ...

Finding any fossil skin is extraordinary; finding dinosaur skin is that much more rare. So when Tess Gallagher and her mom excavated patches of skin from one of the largest dinosaurs to exist, there ...

If you thought the largest dinosaurs to have walked the earth produced the biggest eggs, you’d be mistaken. Scientists have discovered that both individual egg size and clutch size for the sauropods – ...

Diplodocus was one of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the earth, yet the females produced some of the smallest eggs. Now, scientists say they’ve cracked the mystery: The substantial incubation time ...

On July 4, 1899, the steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie finally got his Diplodocus. He had set his eye on this fossil prize in the fall of the previous year when the New York Journal ran a fanciful ...

Sorry Dippy, but your days of scaring the bejesus out of millions of school kids are nearly over. After 35 years of service, the huge skeleton of a Diplodocus is being retired from its leading role at ...