Littlefoot. Loch Ness monster. Dino from The Flintstones. We're so used to seeing long-necked dinosaurs and other scaly creatures in popular culture. The cartoons and cultural characters are loosely ...

Paleontologists may have discovered when plant-eating dinosaurs evolved their long necks after a new species of sauropodomorph was found in Argentina. The fossils of the new dinosaur species, named ...

A golden era in dinosaur science is driving this fascination with dinosaurs. Around 1,400 dinosaur species are now known from ...

A plant-eating sauropod that lumbered around what's now China some 162 million years ago had a neck that was about 10 feet longer than a typical school bus — and the longest of any known dinosaur. A ...

High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of palaeontologists has found a small dinosaur fossil with the first hints of the extended neck that distinguishes sauropod dinosaurs like Diplodocus. Named ...

It’s no secret that sauropods – a clade of giant dinosaurs that includes the famous Brachiosaurus – had really long necks, but now paleontologists claim to have identified the species that takes the ...

Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...

A new species of long-necked dinosaur has been discovered, and researchers say it is among the smallest known members of a family of giants. When scientists analyzed a fossil limb bone found in South ...

Did this dinosaur inspire dragon myths? — -- Here's a dinosaur that really knows how to stick its neck out above the rest. Called the "dragon of Qijiang," for the Chinese city in which the fossil ...