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The concrete and plastic dinosaurs beside America's highways are often sad, malformed creatures. What do you think is the best of the worst?
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How many species of this rare, ornamented genus were there?
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Dr. Who sported some of the worst dinosaurs on television. This video explains why
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Beauty, mystery and deceit—the Smithsonian's collection of nearly 8,000 live orchids has it all
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Thanks to one 1888 paper, paleontologists still divide dinosaurs between the bird-hips and lizard-hips
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Some researchers insist that birds are not dinosaurs, but do they have any evidence?
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A new study shows that our perceptions of wealth don't always match up with reality
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If the non-avian dinosaurs hadn't died out 65 million years ago, what would they look like today?
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Scientists have several candidates for the title of earliest Homo sapiens
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"Going the way of the dinosaur" is a popular phrase, but one drawn from bizarre 20th century ideas that dinosaurs were due for an extinction
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Students in England concluded that the Star Wars space station could easily have destroyed an Earth-like planet
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Parasaurolophus is one of the most perplexing dinosaurs - what did it use its huge crest for?
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Naturally occurring uranium doesn't have enough of the fissile isotope U-235 to set off a nuclear reaction, but scientists found ways to increase the stuff
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On December 6, 1916, a German military vessel sunk a highly-valued shipment of Canadian dinosaurs
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Dental, dietary and environmental clues help explain why the world's largest ape vanished
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Mount Everest is a just a peewee when compared with such giants as Olympus Mons on Mars
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Charles R. Knight, one of the greatest paleoartists ever, battled his boss, artistic society and his own eyesight to bring prehistoric creatures to life
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The black-marble jawfish takes advantage of its coloring to blend in with an octopus and stay safe from predators
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This has to be the most adorable dinosaur correction I have ever seen
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Being spicy helps a chili plant protect its fruit from fungal rot, but it has a downside in dry conditions
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