It may be one of the most famous dinosaurs of all time. The trouble is that shortly after being discovered, the Jurassic creature fell into an identity crisis. The name for the long-necked, ...

It’s important enough that it should at least be called by its right name. Apatosaurus, as it’s been known for about 100 years, just won’t do. “I was always interested in dinosaurs as a kid” who wants ...

After more than a century of extinction in the scientific community, the name Brontosaurus may be ready to return to the ranks of its dinosaur brethren. A study published on Tuesday by the open-access ...

If you've ever taken a paleontology class, you've heard that the brontosaurus is not a real type of dinosaur, despite its popularity in film. However, a new paper published in the journal PeerJ ...

“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 ...

It’s the most famous dinosaur that never was — or at least that’s what paleontologists have believed for 112 years. After an exhaustive comparative analysis of over 500 physical characteristics, ...

Towering above a patch of pumpkins is a 14-foot-tall skeleton of prehistoric proportion. Cool Patch Pumpkins in Dixon, Calif. off the I-80 is home to a skeleton that resembles a brontosaurus – the ...

It may have something to do with all those Brontosaurus burgers everyone's favorite modern stone-age family ate, but when you think of a giant dinosaur with a tiny head and long, swooping tail, the ...

NEW HAVEN — Stegosaurus has headed for Canada. So has Archelon, the giant turtle. Other fossils and mammals have been crated and sent to Yale University’s West Campus for storage and preservation. In ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...