AFP - A fondly-held belief about long-necked sauropods, the giant four-footed dinosaurs beloved of monster movies and children, is most probably untrue, a dino expert said on Wednesday.

The founders of a dinosaur museum in western Queensland say ancient bones from the region will be preserved for generations to come thanks to new insulated storage containers

In one hall alone, 480 dinosaur fossils are randomly placed in glass cases or left in the open air around a room the size of a basketball court, along with Triassic fish and other more recent fossils, primarily from different parts of China

Larsson is at the forefront of merging palaeontology and molecular biology in an effort to connect major evolutionary changes - the development of new species and new characteristics, new shapes and structures, new kinds of animals - to changes in specific genes and in how those genes are regulated

The new dinosaur, named Aerosteon , seems to have had a unique breathing system that birds likely inherited through evolution

Unlike his 10-year-old peers, this dinosaur enthusiast researched the best choice for a new state dinosaur and stood toe to toe with a state legislator to argue his pick — Technosaurus smalli

A new discovery of a jumble of at least three young Triceratops in the badlands of the north-central US has suggested that the three-horned dinosaurs were social animals, and may have exhibited unique gregarious groupings of juveniles

Canadian researchers say they have discovered North America’s smallest known dinosaur, a pint-sized predator half the size of a house cat and cousin to the ferocious Velociraptor, which roamed in what is now Alberta 75 million years ago

A New York gallery says a 150-million-year-old complete skeleton of a 9-foot-long dryosaurus has failed to sell at auction

As Ron Frithiof, an Austin, Texas, real-estate developer turned dinosaur prospector, dug cautiously around it in a rugged expanse of backcountry, he was growing increasingly confident that he and his partners were uncovering a once-in-a-lifetime find