Vernal's Dinah the dinosaur invites visitors for a swim. Photo by Brian Switek. On the road to Dinosaur National Monument, along Vernal, Utah’s main drag, there stands a dinosaur wearing a bikini.

Her name was Maia – short for Maiasaura – and while her adventure was fiction, it was informed by the science of what Horner and his colleagues were digging up at “Egg Mountain” in Montana.

Maiasaura was a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, that lived during the late Cretaceous Period. Its name is derived from Greek, “maia” meaning mother or good mother, and “saura” being the feminine ...

The researchers tested eggshell fossils from a Troodon, a small, meat-eating therapod (the same family as the T-Rex); a duck-billed, plant-eating dinosaur called a Maiasaura; and a Megaloolithus ...

The Paleobiology study examined the fossil bone microstructure, or histology, of 50 Maiasaura tibiae (shin bones). Bone histology reveals aspects of growth that cannot be obtained by simply ...

Maiasaura ’s name literally means “good mother lizard.” But was it really all that parental? Read on to find out. 1. It’s the State Fossil of Montana. The Blue Sky state bestowed this ...

Baby Maiasaura and a parent at a mount in the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. Baby Maiasaura bones and egg fragments were the first dinosaur fossils in space. Photo by the author Last year, David ...

In new research, my colleagues and I determined how much energy minibus-sized dinosaurs called Maiasaura used while growing to adulthood. Our results, published in the journal Paleobiology, show ...

If you like gluing, you might enjoy this version of the activity best. 1. Print out our template of an egg and a baby Maiasaura dinosaur. 2. Glue them to the piece of card. 3. Cut around the outline ...

A new study found that dinosaur fossils of Maiasaura peeblesorum from Montana indicate how the said species lived and died. The findings may also serve as a comparative model in the study of other ...

Holly Woodward points at a <i>Maiasaura</i> fossil. Decades of research on Montana's state fossil -- the 'good mother lizard' <i>Maiasaura</i> <i>peeblesorum</i> - has resulted in the most ...

It’s not just science fiction—dinosaurs have already been in space twice Riley Black Science Correspondent Baby Maiasaura and a parent at a mount in the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. Baby Maiasaura ...