The Tenontosaurus was a large ornithopod that walked on four legs and roamed during the Early Cretaceous period, around 110 to 120 million years ago. Believe it or not, the dinosaur wasn't officially ...

A partial Tenontosaurus skeleton on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. Photo by the author Tenontosaurus is a difficult dinosaur to describe. This beaked herbivore—a distant, ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researcher discovered a dinosaur fossil that may expand the known range of a species that roamed the Earth over 110 million years ago.

When geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas, he didn't expect to come back with a dinosaur. The University of Texas at El Paso researcher was conducting ...

Jason W. Ricketts, Ph.D., associate professor in The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, discovered fossils – identified as belonging to the ...

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