Researchers uncovered a 220-million-year-old dinosaur with a severe bone infection - now on display at the University of Zurich.

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.

Plateosaurus, one of the earliest known herbivorous dinosaurs, was also among the first to achieve a substantial body size, reaching lengths of up to 26 feet (eight meters).

The oldest known case of a bone infection has been discovered — not in a human, but in a dinosaur. A recent study, published in the Swiss Journal of Paleontology, introduces us to a ...

Norway's first dinosaur fossil is a Plateosaurus, a species that could be up to nine metres long and weigh up to four tons. It lived in Europe and on Greenland 210 to 195 million years ago, at the ...

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 ...

An adult Plateosaurus could weigh in at over 4 tons. The scientists compared the baby's skeleton with adult specimens and found it looked like a scaled-down version of the big dinosaurs.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - From May 2016, with the support of the Brussels Capital region, the Museum of Natural Sciences will host, in the form of a permanent loan, an authentic fossilised Plateosaurus skel ...

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 ...

A Plateosaurus from 220 million years ago exhibits the oldest known case of osteomyelitis in a dinosaur, with extensive infection affecting its right shoulder and upper arm.