With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

Sauropod dinosaurs, renowned for their immense size and distinctive body plan, represent one of the most successful groups of terrestrial herbivores in Earth's history. Emerging in the Early Jurassic ...

The long necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth – but why were they so large? A decade ago a team of plant ecologists from South Africa suggested that this was ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils from ...

Sauropod biology and the evolution of gigantism: what do we know? / Marcus Clauss -- Sauropod feeding and digestive physiology / Jürgen Hummel and Marcus Clauss -- Dietary options for the sauropod ...

A study published in Current Biology provided evidence that sauropod dinosaurs were herbivores. The research team analyzed the fossilized abdomen of a sauropod, revealing plant fossils that served as ...

“It’s the smoking gun, or the steaming guts,” said a paleontologist from a team that also found that the sauropods didn’t chew their food. By Kate Golembiewski In the movie “Jurassic Park,” a ...

Fossils found in the stomach of a 100-million-year-old sauropod reveal that these dinosaurs didn't fully chew their food and relied on stomach microbes for digestion. A new study from Current Biology ...