Apatosaurus suffers from an identity crisis of epic proportions. Even today, many people only know this amazing animal as the Brontosaurus, a name that was discarded 111 years ago. Really, it’s a ...

The 22-metre (70-foot) long Apatosaurus dinosaur skeleton sold for approximately $6.4 million (6 million euros) at auction yesterday, according to Collin du Bocage and Barbarossa auction houses. The ...

GRAND JUNCTION — Rabbit Valley’s Mygatt-Moore quarry is home to hundreds of fossils left behind by dinosaurs and extinct sea creatures. Its most notable recent find was a 6-foot-7-inch long, ...

Two miles east of the Colorado-Utah border in Rabbit Valley, prehistoric bones and fragments litter the area. Known as the Mygatt-Moore quarry, it’s home to an unknown amount of fossilized remains — ...

It’s important enough that it should at least be called by its right name. Apatosaurus, as it’s been known for about 100 years, just won’t do. “I was always interested in dinosaurs as a kid” who wants ...

COST: $8.50 for adults, $6.50 for seniors, $5.25 for children and $24.50 for immediate family groups INFO: http://www.museumofwesternco.com. Editor’s note: “From ...

My late father-in-law had a great cuss word: DAGNABIT. And that’s the way I felt last week when I found our very own world-record-sized dinosaur, fresh out of Rabbit Valley’s Mygatt-Moore quarry, ...

Brontosaurus, the long-necked plant-eating dinosaur, has always been a classroom favorite. Never mind that it was declassified as a genus all its own in 1903 and lumped under the name Apatosaurus. But ...