The Dinosaur Museum News

A dinosaur vertebra that was discovered in 1999 in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, has only just been scientifically identified. The results that have been published describe the dinosaur as one the largest type of sauropod – a titanosaurid. Continue Reading…

With a wing-span of up to 12 metres Quetzalcoatlus was the largest flying animal ever and an azhdarchid pterosaur. Despite Quetzalcoatlus’ large size it was fairly light at about 130kg, owing to its hollow bones and small body. Continue Reading…

Excavators from the Burpee Museum of Natural History have discovered over 100 fossilised bones recently in south-eastern Utah. The bones belong to 150 million year old dinosaurs from the Jurassic period whose remains were washed own and trapped in a sandbar measuring over 70 metres long and 35 metres wide. Continue Reading…