NAGASAKI--Researchers have determined that a fossil found in the layers of a local beach is the shoulder blade of a 9-meter-long ornithopod dinosaur, one of the largest in Japan and possibly a new ...

“It was named at a time when the word dinosaur didn't exist.” Back in the 19th century it was one of three animals upon which the now famous group Dinosauria was founded, she adds. Several fossil ...

Fukui prefecture is where most new species of dinosaur fossils are discovered in Japan, and the key feature of the faculty is a strong collaboration with the renowned Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur ...

Across the street from the Dinosaur Discovery Site museum, the dig crew has already begun to open a new fossil quarry. So far, they have discovered a fish fossil and several fossil tracks ...