When most people imagine dinosaurs, they picture giant reptiles covered in thick scales, with rough skin similar to modern ...

Diplodocids—large herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails—may have been able to move their tails like bullwhips at speeds of up to 33 meters per second (more than 100 kilometers per hour), ...

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It has been millions of years since dinosaurs last walked the earth, but scientists recently discovered a piece of that era still with us today. A 99-million-year-old dinosaur tail has been found ...

While most paleontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar. In 2015, he made a remarkable find: Trapped in what looked like golden ...

A photo of what appeared to be a dinosaur tail trapped in amber captured the attention of millions in September 2025 when it was shared on social media. An X post (archived) viewed over 12 million ...

The first non-avian dinosaur tail found in amber is that of a 99-million-year-old mid-Cretaceous theropod dinosaur, currently unnamed, which was discovered embedded in amber from Kachin State, Myanmar ...

A study suggests that the armored ankylosaurs brandished their tails during fights for dominance. The ankylosaurs were armored dinosaurs with large, bludgeon-like tails. And experts didn't know what ...

Diplodocids were a family of dinosaurs with long necks and, often, even longer tails — some species’ tails reached 50 feet in length. They were wide-ranging, but especially flourished in what’s now ...