The thunder lizard may be reinstated into the dino club. — -- On the edge of the solar system, the dwarf planet Pluto, which knows what it feels like to be banished from an exclusive club ...

Michael D'Emic is a paleontologist, research instructor at Stony Brook University, and research associate at the Burpee Museum of Natural History. When I first tell someone I’m a paleontologist ...

Brontosaurus, the long-necked plant-eating dinosaur, has always been a classroom favorite. Never mind that it was declassified as a genus all its own in 1903 and lumped under the name Apatosaurus.

More than a century ago, the Brontosaurus was deemed too similar to the dinosaur Apatosaurus. Recent research finds there is enough difference between the two creatures after all.

The Kindly Brontosaurus once shepherded me past a power-crazed downtown Manhattan bouncer into a Go-Betweens concert, a feat that was all the more remarkable considering I didn’t have a ticket.

The Brontosaurus—first named by Yale paleontologist O.C. Marsh in 1879—has captured imaginations and become a part of popular culture. A statue of the Brontosaurus stood at the 1964 World's ...

Welcome back, brontosaurus. Scientists may have been too hasty when they did away with the name "brontosaurus" in favor of the name "apatosaurus," according to a study published Tuesday in the ...

Brontosaurus, which lived in North America 150 million years ago, was about 72 feet long and weighed about 40 tons. Paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh found two long-necked dinosaur fossils in ...

The scientist even decided to put the Brontosaurus at the front of its own genus. “There will always be details that some people might not like (the research),” Emanuel Tschopp said in an ...

Welcome back, Bronto! The "thunder lizard" has returned. The dinosaur identified in 1879 as Brontosaurus excelsus and reclassified as Apatosaurus ajax in 1903 is once again back in its own genus ...

Brontosaurus is one of the most charismatic dinosaurs of all time, inspiring generations of children thanks to its size and evocative name. However, as every armchair palaeontologist knows ...

Brontosaurus, as imagined by paleontologists in the late 1800s: aquatic, and wearing a Camarasaurus skull. Later research would show that the sauropod actually had a slim, horselike skull.