When the dinosaur was donated to the museum it was named Nanosaurus, like many other small dinosaurs named since the 1870s.

The speedy, plant-eating creature lived in what is now Colorado roughly 150 million years ago, and its skeleton went on ...

The most popular dinosaurs are the ones that Hollywood has made famous, so most of the names on this list might not surprise you. Like any popularity contest, it's a little tricky to choose ...

While dinosaurs were given their name in the 1840s, fossils proving their existence were discovered long before that. Moore said one example can be found in the work of Edward Lhuyd, ...

Alvarezsaurids aren’t the best-known dinosaur group, but they have long fascinated scientists with their drastically shortened forearms and hands, which in some species terminate in a single ...

Diplodocids were a family of dinosaurs with long necks and, often, even longer tails — some species' tails reached 50 feet in length. They were wide-ranging, but especially flourished in what's ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether these dinosaurs could whip their tails faster than the speed of sound, creating a sonic boom. The sound of a cracking whip is actually a sonic boom.