Researchers in Austria have discovered that the Plateosaurus, a herbivorous dinosaur that thrived during the Late Triassic, likely used its long, whip-like tail as a powerful weapon to protect ...

Plateosaurus trossingensis was a type of dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic in what is now North and Central Europe—approximately 229 to 200 million years ago.

Paleontologists at the University of Tübingen's Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment have discovered a hitherto unknown genus and species of dinosaur. Tuebingosaurus ...

More information: Sina F. J. Dupuis et al, Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic ...

On a hunch that the original identification was incorrect, the team reexamined the bones and discovered a completely new genus and species of dinosaur. The findings were published September 8 in ...

Paleontologists at the University of Tübingen’s Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment have discovered a hitherto unknown genus and species of dinosaur. The new species ...

According to new research from the University of Zurich, the dinosaur – a carnivorous predator about 8.5 feet long – belongs to a genus and species never before seen.

Plateosaurus roamed the earth 220 million years ago. Researchers have found specimens of the adults in "bone beds" where mud captured the creatures, but fossilized babies are rare.

The plant-eating, long-necked Plateosaurus lived around 220 million years ago in northern and central Europe and Greenland. Adults grew to be between 4.8 to 10 meters long and weighed up to 4,000 ...