A small team of paleontologists with members from Austria, Germany and Switzerland has found evidence suggesting that a herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic may have used its large tail as a ...

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 itself ...

Learn more about Plateosaurus engelhardti, the deepest fossil ever found at nearly 9,000 feet below sea level. The deepest dinosaur fossil on record was buried 2,615 meters (8,579 feet) below sea ...

During the Late Triassic period, some 220 million years ago, a nearly eight-meter-long Plateosaurus roamed among the giant horsetails that stood two meters tall in what is now the Frick Valley in the ...