Dinosaurs

The articulated foot of Talos sampsoni. The second toe (DII) bore a retractable sickle claw

Cretaceous Utah’s New, Switchblade-Clawed Predator

The find may help sort out the history of troodontid dinosaurs in North America

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Return to Planet Dinosaur

What sets the program apart is the fact that science is woven into each episode, whether it's Carcharodontosaurus duking it out or spinosaurs hunting

One of the dueling Tyrannosaurus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Hail to the King

NPR's Tyrannosaurus tribute features fossil hunter Barnum Brown, skeleton news and short videos of a Tyrannosaurus strutting to "Stayin' Alive"

A block containing the partial skeleton of Linhevenator. Abbreviations: ds, dorsal vertebrae; lf, left femur; li, left ischium; lpe, left foot; rh, right humerus; rs, right scapula; sk, skull.

A New Sickle-Clawed Predator from Inner Mongolia

Linhevenator may not have used its arms to capture prey in the same way as its kin, even if it did have a specialized killing claw

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The Best Dinosaur Films Never Made

What do you think—which of these films most deserved to make it to the big screen?

Dinosaur wine bottles spotted at a Manhattan party

Dinosaur Sighting: Fermented Stegosaurus

The Apatosaurus drags its tail, the Tyrannosaurus takes up a Godzilla-like posture and poor Velociraptor couldn't hold a glass of wine even if it wanted to

A five-inch-long impression of the baby ankylosaur Propanoplosaurus marylandicus. The head is the triangular shaped portion near the top, and the right forelimb can be seen to the left.

Maryland’s Adorable Baby Ankylosaur

A tiny, 112-million-year-old impression of a baby armored dinosaur shows the head and the underside of its body

The reconstructed skeleton of a Deinonychus, representing the modern image of dinosaurs, in front of the outdated 'Age of Reptiles' mural in Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

The Dinosaurs We Used to Know

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Tracking the Fate of an Unseen Dinosaur Drama

Tippett's "Prehistoric Beast" remains one of the best dinosaur films ever made. What could he have accomplished with "Dinosaur"?

Bookzilla at the Decatur Book Festival

Dinosaur Sighting: Bookzilla

The monster got its start as a science experiment that escaped to Decatur, Georgia—although, technically, I am not sure if Bookzilla counts

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The Dinosaur Revolution Will Be Televised

A new miniseries is more dinosaur tribute than scientific documentary

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What the Goofy “More Dinosaurs” Got Right

A new DVD release of an old program is something of a dinosaur mixtape, with science and pop culture blended together

A dinosaur you can pet

Blog Carnival #34: Dino Petting Zoo, Tyrannosaurus v. Triceratops and More

In this month's roundup of the best of dino blogs, read about a dinosaur petting zoo, the 10 commandments of paleoart and much more

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An Homage to Grant’s Raptors

Why fear Velociraptor? A plastic dinosaur recreation of a classic Jurassic Park scene explains

Hanging with Parasaurolophus at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, North Carolina

Dinosaur Sighting: Parry-sloffy

An affinity for lambeosaurine dinosaurs seems to run in the family

Superhero dinosaurs: Captain America as Triceratops; Tyrannosaurus as the Hulk and Compsognathus as Bruce Banner; Ankylosaurus as Thor.

David Resto and his Superhero Dinosaurs

Iron Man, the Hulk, Wolverine and other superheroes are enduring favorites, but do you know what would make them even more awesome? If they were dinosaurs

The skeleton of Xiaotingia (head is to the left)

An Ode to Archaeopteryx

The many fuzzy and feathery dinosaurs that have been discovered reveal one of the most magnificent evolutionary transformations in the history of life

The badlands north of Worland, Wyoming, shown here, expose sediments deposited during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #9: Why It’s Called “Breaking Camp”

Some trick of the human psyche makes a patch of sagebrush feel like home

Artist Donald E. Davis' depiction of the asteroid impact which played a critical role in the end-Cretaceous extinction.

Pixar Rewrites Dinosaur History

What if the cataclysmic asteroid that forever changed life on Earth actually missed the planet and giant dinosaurs never went extinct?

A skeletal restoration of Smok wawelski. The black parts are missing elements of the skeleton.

The Dinosaur That Wasn’t

Even so, a terrestrial, 16-foot, carnivorous crocodile-like predator is not something I would like to meet in a dark alley (or anywhere else, really)

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