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The young Plateosaurus, nicknamed 'Fabian', was discovered in 2015 at the Frick fossil site in Switzerland. ... "The hands and neck of the juveniles may be a little longer, ...
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).
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.
The long-necked Plateosaurus could grow to weigh up to 4,000 kilogramsImage: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa/picture alliance Other dinosaur babies, on the other hand, looked wildly different from their ...
Plateosaurus was a bipedal herbivore with a small skull on a long, mobile neck, sharp but plump plant-crushing teeth, powerful hind limbs, short but muscular arms and grasping hands with large ...
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 Plateosaurus at the Snorre offshore field had a hollow grave. The fossil, which was found 2256 metres below the seabed, represents the world's deepest dinosaur finding.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A dinosaur skeleton discovered in 1922 and stored in Germany was long thought to be a Plateosauridae. Now a group of paleontologists at the University of Tübingen’s Senckenberg Centre for Human ...
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 ...