A reconstruction of Protoceratops at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, WY

Eaters of the Dinosaur Dead

Over the past few years, paleontologists have reported a growing number of cases of scavenging by insects

Cowboys and dinosaurs, spotted in Natural Bridge, Virginia.

Dinosaur Sighting: Cowboys & Raptors

If you find yourself riding a Deinonychus, you'd better make sure you keep riding it lest you find out how effective those recurved claws can be

A Protoceratops skeleton with an associated track (outlined in a box near the hips).

Protoceratops: The Cinderella of Dinosaurs

Have scientists found "the holy grail of vertebrate ichnology"—a dinosaur dead in its tracks?

Jurassic Park poster

An Open Letter to Steven Spielberg

Something has been troubling me, Steve. I worry what your recent news means for us dinosaur fans

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Dinosaur Office

As bad as your workplace is, at least you don't have to worry about your tyrannosaur boss eating you for lunch

Part of a sauropod trackway from the Teruel, Spain tracksite

Spain’s Tiny Sauropods Traveled Together

At least six individuals moved in the same direction, nearly parallel to each other—the tracks represent a herd

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Battling the Dinosaurs of Project Blackout

Dinosaurs are handy video game monsters. They're famous, fearsome and nearly unstoppable

The head of Coelophysis - a close relative of Camposaurus - as restored by John Conway

The Intriguing, Frustrating Camposaurus

Paleontologists have reexamined the paltry bones and affirmed that the creature is an important link to the early days of theropod dinosaurs

The bones of Giraffatitan as discovered in Tanzania.

Tendaguru’s Lost World

The African fossil sites preserve dinosaur fossils that are strangely similar to their North American counterparts

Barnum Brown, showing off his paleo pick in an August 1932 Popular Science

Barnum Brown’s Paleo Pick

Does "Mr. Bones" really deserve credit for inventing an essential field tool?

Allosaurus, on display at the CEU Museum in Price, Utah

Taking a Bite Out of a Sauropod Tail

The tail vertebra has gouges, divots and scores in five places from at least two different predators

Line drawings of the skulls of Acristavus (top), Maiasaura (middle), and Brachylophosaurus (bottom)

Acristavus: North America’s New Hadrosaur

Dinosaurs with weird structures such as sails and arrays of horns often make the news, but in this case, the lack of specialized structures is important

One of the many dinosaur tracks figured in Edward Hitchcock's Ichnology of New England.

South America’s First Dinosaur Tracks

Tracks now readily recognizable as belonging to dinosaurs were once attributed to prodigious birds and other creatures

A roadside dinosaur in Jensen, Utah

Dinosaur Sighting: Crocosaurus

It looks more like an alligator doing a dinosaur impression, but there is something unmistakably dinosaurian about it

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Los Angeles’ New Dinosaur Hall

Buzz about the new displays, particularly a trio of Tyrannosaurus growth stages, has been growing for months

A dinosaur egg with preserved wasp cocoons inside

Making a Home in a Dinosaur Egg

There were five spherical eggs in the 70-something-million-year-old clutch. One egg was cracked in half and filled with cocoons

A paper "Brontosaurus" skeleton in a bottle, created by Akinobu

Brontosaurus in a Bottle

Dinosaurs are famous for the gargantuan sizes some attained, and that's why these minuscule skeleton sculptures are so charming

The estimated sizes of several Allosaurus specimens, including "Epanterias."

A Truly Exceptional Allosaurus

Cope did not know it at the time, but he had described an especially large representative of a species his rival had named just a year before

Dinosaur, Colorado's Triceratops

Dinosaur Sighting: Roadside Triceratops

The main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado is festooned with a number of goofy-looking dinosaurs

The skull of Stegoceras

Dome-Headed Dinos Well-Suited to Butting Heads

The researchers compared the skulls of Stegoceras and Prenocephale with head-butting mammals including elk, duiker and musk ox

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