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 ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have described for the first time an almost complete skeleton of a juvenile Plateosaurus and discovered that it looked very similar to its parents even at a young age. That could ...

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.

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 ...

Thinkstock. Holy galloping Plateosaurus, Batman!The primitive herbivore has often been drawn lumbering about in a horse-like trot on its hands and feet. But a closer examination in 2007 revealed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.