Apatosaurus suffers from an identity crisis of epic proportions. Even today, many people only know this amazing animal as the Brontosaurus, a name that was discarded 111 years ago. Really, it’s a ...
The weather is fine back here in the Jurassic Era, where a few of us terrible lizards still roam the Earth, resolutely insisting on keeping our names Apatosaurus even after we marry Joe Tyrannosaur.
Apatosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs ever discovered, yet parts of its story remain surprisingly unsettled. Fossils from the Late Jurassic reveal a giant built for power and scale, but key ...
Two miles east of the Colorado-Utah border in Rabbit Valley, prehistoric bones and fragments litter the area. Known as Mygatt-Moore quarry, it’s home to an unknown amount of fossilized remains — both ...
GRAND JUNCTION — Rabbit Valley’s Mygatt-Moore quarry is home to hundreds of fossils left behind by dinosaurs and extinct sea creatures. Its most notable recent find was a 6-foot-7-inch long, ...
The 22-metre (70-foot) long Apatosaurus dinosaur skeleton sold for approximately $6.4 million (6 million euros) at auction yesterday, according to Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa auction houses. The ...
My late father-in-law had a great cuss word: DAGNABIT. And that’s the way I felt last week when I found our very own world-record-sized dinosaur, fresh out of Rabbit Valley’s Mygatt-Moore quarry, ...
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. But ...