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. 

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A Paleo Proposal

Paleontologists Lee Hall and Ashley Fragomeni show us what a perfect paleo-themed engagement looks like

A high-kicking Utahraptor outside the College of Eastern Utah's Prehistoric Museum in Price

In Defense of Raptors

Is it time to stop calling sickle-clawed dinosaurs "raptors"?

Roger Cutler's wire Apatosaurus

Dinosaur Sighting: Artsy Apatosaurus

wire Apatosaurus looms over a D.C.-area art festival

The original AMNH mount of Brontosaurus, reconstructed in 1905

Brontosaurus Returns

Paleontologists may have killed the dinosaur a century ago, but it was revitalized in the King Kong remake

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A Little Lost Tyrannosaur

Nothing is cuter than a troublemaking baby Tyrannosaurus

What would life be like if dinosaurs such as this Ceratosaurus (at Ogden, Utah's Eccles Dinosaur Park) suddenly returned?

Time for a Dinosaur Attack?

A dinosaur movie not fit for children could really run with the idea of what life would be like if packs of Deinonychus roamed the streets

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Fate of Auctioned Tarbosaurus Yet to be Determined

An almost complete skeleton was sold for more than a million dollars, but what will become of this rare specimen?

Actual dinosaurs were discovered at Dinosaur National Monument a century ago. Starting in 1909, fossil hound Earl Douglass found fantastic remains of gigantic dinosaurs.

America's Monumental Dinosaur Site

For the first time in years, visitors can once again see the nation's most productive Jurassic park

A gliding Stegosaurus

The Fantastic Gliding Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus was as aerodynamic as a brick, but one writer thought the prickly dinosaur used its huge plates for gliding

Archosaur skull changes (juveniles on the left, adults on the right). While there was a significant amount of change between the juvenile and adult skulls of alligators (top) and the non-avian dinosaur Coelophysis (middle), there was little change between the juvenile and adult skulls of early birds such as Archaeopteryx (bottom) and their closest dinosaur relatives.

Birds Have Juvenile Dinosaur Skulls

The peculiar way birds grow up got its start among feathery non-avian dinosaurs

The rebbachisaurid Limaysaurus. This sauropod was similar to the ones discovered by Salgado and colleagues in the Patagonian bonebed.

Social Sauropods?

A bonebed in Argentina with three sauropods of different sizes adds new evidence that some of these dinosaurs were social creatures

A skeleton reconstruction of Eoabelisaurus, showing the recovered parts of the skeleton

New Dinosaur Signifies Dawn of Stubby-Armed Predators

A newly described abelisaurid pushes back the history of the blunt-skulled, stubby-armed predators

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A Dinosaur Expedition Doomed From the Start

A wannabe-biologist is planning to bring a dinosaur back alive, even though the creature he's after doesn't exist

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Tarbosaurus on Trial

An almost certainly poached tyrannosaur skeleton kicks off a legal dispute over Mongolia's fossil heritage

A new reconstruction of Utahceratops at the Natural History Museum of Utah

Utahceratops Debut

There was a full artistic reconstruction in the 2010 paper that described the dinosaur, but it's another thing to see the dinosaur's reconstructed skeleton

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When Dinosaur Parties Go Bad

The key take-home lesson: Never anger anyone with a thagomizer

A speculative restoration of Australia's Cretaceous ceratosaur

Fragmentary Clue Reveals Australia’s First Ceratosaur

An isolated bone shows that Cretaceous Australia had an even richer mix of predatory dinosaurs

A Tyrannosaurus stands over the remains of an abandoned mini-golf course.

Dinosaur Sighting: Tyrannosaurus Golf

Dinosaurs probably wouldn't have been very good at mini-golf—imagine a Carnotaurus with a putter—but they make for excellent fairway decor

A sculpture of Torosaurus—or, according to some, a mature Triceratops—outside Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Dear Media, Leave My Dinosaurs Alone

Lazy journalists and unscrupulous documentary creators have demonstrated that they just can't play nice with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and kin

The decaying head of King Kong's Brontosaurus, as seen at The Dinosaur Museum.

A Miniature Dinosaur Celebrity

King Kong's fearsome Brontosaurus found a home in an out-of-the-way Utah museum

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