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 ...

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 ...

Apatosaurus means “deceptive lizard.” It’s really the perfect name for the bulky Jurassic sauropod. “Brontosaurus“—a dinosaurian fan favorite whose memory lives on even after being relegated to the ...

Paleontologists are restoring the good name of Brontosaurus more than a century after it was deemed scientifically invalid and the famous dinosaur was reclassified as another genus called Apatosaurus.

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 ...

For reasons involving paleontological uncertainty and scientific peer pressure, though, what went overlooked was that the Carnegie’s fossil collector Earl Douglass found a true Apatosaurus skull in ...

A 22-meter-long Apatosaurus skeleton, the largest dinosaur ever auctioned in France, has been sold for €6 million (approximately $6.3 million). An anonymous collector purchased the giant herbivore for ...

Despite its relegation to a subset of the Apatosaurus family in 1903, new research suggests that the Brontosaurus is distinct enough to be a genus The Brontosaurus has been consigned to extinction not ...