Saurolophus angustirostris, the species attributed to these tracks, typically measured 12 meters in length and weighed between 2 and 3 tons. However, the size of the largest footprint suggests ...

Scientists describe a perinatal group of Saurolophus angustirostris, a giant hadrosaur dinosaur, all likely from the same nest, found at 'Dragon's Tomb' in Mongolia, according to a new study.

Researchers identified its owner as the giant Saurolophus, a “Mongolian giant” that measured 50 feet from nose to tail — 10 feet longer than the Tyrannosaurus Rex. 4.

The largest footprint is believed to have belonged to a giant Saurolophus, estimated to exceed 15 meters in total body length, surpassing even the Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus in size.

Saurolophus were large duck-billed hadrosaurs with distinctive crests on the top of their heads. But the newly identified fossils weren't very large at all, the scientists said.

Saurolophus angustirostris, to be specific. A study published this week in PLOS ONE reports that the gaggle of baby dinosaurs was found in an area of Mongolia's Gobi desert aptly named the ...

The area this fossil nest was found in is known as the “Dragon’s Tomb” as it has produced a vast amount of fossils of this giant hadrosaur, Saurolophus angustirostris, since its discovery in ...

The Saurolophus lived between 72.1 and 66 million years ago. Huge trail of around 200 dinosaur footprints uncovered in the UK It belongs to a type of dinosaur known as the hadrosaurids, which were ...

In Drumheller, Saurolophus fossils are never found in the same localities as Edmontosaurus. According to Currie, finding fossils of both plant-eating species together "means they were here at the ...

Instead, it seems that the Saurolophus had already died and was mostly buried, leaving only a little bit of its body exposed above the surface. This would have been a free meal, ...

Saurolophus would have had a spike-like crest that projected up and back from its skull. And although it was capable of walking on two legs, it may have also moved around on all fours.

Colossal Saurolophus footprints in Mongolia could belong to dinosaur bigger than T-Rex Until now, the largest known hadrosaurid skeleton belonged to Shantungosaurus, discovered in Shandong ...