Unlike some types of dinosaurs that were reliant on their parents after they hatched, the offspring of the world's largest vertebrates to have ever walked the Earth were probably independent soon ...

One sauropod deserves another. After briefly profiling the as-yet-little-known Qiaowanlong last week, it’s only natural to follow up with Rapetosaurus krausei – another recently-named Mesozoic ...

An artist's illustration showing the size comparisons of a newborn dinosaur called Rapetosaurus (2nd from L) that lived on the island of Madagascar to some large-bodied mammalian newborns such as a ...

Starting from a reasonable size of about 3.5 kg at birth, a specimen of the dinosaur Rapetosaurus krausei shot up to about 40 kg in just about 39-77 days, when it succumbed to starvation. Kristina ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At about 50 feet in length, with an extremely long neck and elephant-like legs, Rapetosaurus is big, but on the ...

Scientists examining the bones of a baby titanosaur from Madagascar have found that the young sauropods actually looked like miniature adults. The findings, described in the journal Science, shed ...

Babies of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball, and did not need parental care, a study of newly discovered fossil of a baby titanosaurian sauropod has found.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The babies of a huge, long-necked dinosaur called Rapetosaurus that lived on the island of Madagascar did not just sit in a nest and look cute. They were born ready for action.

The fossil of a baby titanosaur has provided scientists with an insight into the parenting techniques of the biggest dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth. Researchers analysing a hatchling of the species ...

A reconstructed skeleton of Rapetosaurus on display at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Image by Lisa Andres, from Wikipedia. Everyone knows the sauropod body plan: thin at one end, ...

Washington: The babies of a huge, long-necked dinosaur called Rapetosaurus that lived on the island of Madagascar did not just sit in a nest and look cute. They were born ready for action. Scientists ...