They stumbled upon a large vertebra belonging to an Alamosaurus, a long-necked dinosaur that roamed North America during the Cretaceous, a geological period that lasted from about 145 million to 66 ...

Paleontologists would love for you to remember the Alamosaurus — just for not being named after the Alamo. “Sorry, not that Alamo,” said Ron Tykoski, director ...

Sul Ross students and professors collect a fossil from a giant dinosaur at a Texas national park. Photo from Sul Ross State University. A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North ...

The Late Jurassic was the heyday of sauropod dinosaurs in prehistoric North America. Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Barosaurus and Brachiosaurus were among the titans found in the 156- to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 10—Students from the Sul Ross State University Geology program visited Big Bend National Park in March on a research mission ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. ALBUQUERQUE — Sure, the animatronic Bisti Beast — representing an alleged three tons and 70 teeth worth of ...

Alamosaurus was an unusual sauropod. What makes it so remarkable is not so much its appearance—the dinosaur seems to be a fairly typical member of a group called titanosaurs—but when and where it ...

In the bowels of the Museum of Nature & Science in Fair Park, Tommy Diamond sat hunched over what looked like a huge boulder of plaster. Yes, there was a lot of plaster there, but what was underneath ...