Riley Black

Riley Black

 

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the prehistoric past for a variety of publications. 

The head of Diplodocus, on a reconstruction at the Utah Field House of Natural History.

How Did Diplodocus Eat?

Huge dinosaurs like Diplodocus couldn't chew, so how did they eat?

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Dino Beatdown is Boring

Even though Dino Beatdown delivers on the jetpacks and Velociraptor, that's not enough to make it a fun game

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Round 1 of the Dinosaurs vs Aliens Throwdown

Does the first issue of Dinosaurs vs Aliens live up to the hype?

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Will We Ever Find All the Dinosaurs?

There are probably hundreds of dinosaurs that paleontologists have yet to discover, but will we ever find all the dinosaurs?

Angela Milner on Dinosaurs

Almost 30 years after the program aired, DinosaurTheatre has shared part of an original interview with Natural History Museum paleontologist Angela Milner

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On the Trail of a Weird Dinosaur

A rare footprint places a strange group of dinosaurs in Cretaceous Alaska

The skeleton of Sciurumimus, seen under UV light. You can see traces of protofeathers alon the dinosaur’s tail.

Did All Dinosaurs Have Feathers?

A newly-discovered fossil raises the possibility that all dinosaur lineages were fuzzy

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A Sneak Peek at a New Dinosaur

Argentina unveils a new dinosaur to celebrate the country's bicentennial

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Will We Ever Find Dinosaurs Caught in the Act?

Is there any chance that paleontologists will one day find mating dinosaurs?

A reconstructed Acrocanthosaurus at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

In the Steps of a Hungry Acrocanthosaurus

A special set of footprints may record a dinosaur attack in progress

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You Say Tyrannosaurus, I Say Tarbosaurus

Was the million-dollar dinosaur a species of Tyrannosaurus, or was it a different sort of dinosaur?

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How Hadrosaurs Chewed

Edmontosaurus has often been called the "cow of the Cretaceous", but did this dinosaur chew like a mammal?

The reconstructed cast of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus in the NHMLA’s centerpiece Dinosaur Hall display.

Beautiful Dinosaurs Ripped From Time

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles has beautiful dinosaur displays, but what do the exhibits tell us about your connection to Triceratops and kin?

A restoration of Repenomamus snacking on a young Psittacosaurus

When Mammals Ate Dinosaurs

Our ancestors and cousins didn't all live in the shadows of the Mesozoic world—some were burly carnivores

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Release the Tarbosaurus!

A new twist in the million dollar Tarbosaurus controversy may send this dinosaur home

A restoration of Futalognkosaurus

How to Assemble a Giant

A new museum exhibit presents one of the largest dinosaurs ever found

Disease has often been blamed for the extinction of the last dinosaurs, such as this Edmontosaurus at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

Disease and the Demise of the Dinosaurs

Cataracts, slipped discs, epidemics, glandular problems and even a loss of sex drive have all been proposed as the reason non-avian dinosaurs perished

A reconstruction of the Edmontosaurus skull LACM 23502, with a beak based on a natural mold.

Shovel-Beaked, Not Duck-Billed

A rare fossil shows that duck-billed dinosaurs were not so duck-like after all

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Apatosaurus Was a Deceptive Dinosaur

Apatosaurus means "deceptive lizard," and a short cartoon offers a new interpretation of that name

Even familiar dinosaurs, such as this Allosaurus at Utah's Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, still raise many questions about dinosaur biology.

The Dinosaurs They are a-Changin’

Paleontologists are describing new dinosaurs at an unprecedented pace, but there's much we still don't know about the biology of these animals

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