Finding any fossil skin is extraordinary; finding dinosaur skin is that much more rare. So when Tess Gallagher and her mom excavated patches of skin from one of the largest dinosaurs to exist, there ...

Diplodocus was one of the largest dinosaurs to ever walk the earth, yet the females produced some of the smallest eggs. Now, scientists say they’ve cracked the mystery: The substantial incubation time ...

Microscopic structures seen in the fossilised skin of a sauropod suggest that these giant dinosaurs may have been as brightly coloured as some birds. Tess Gallagher at the University of Bristol, UK, ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Diplodocus is a signature dinosaur -- one of the superstars like stegosaurus and T. rex that every ...

An early ancestor of large, long-necked, four-legged dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus was a quick, nimble biped that probably used its forelimbs to grasp its food, which included leaves, ...