Dinosaurs
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Did Dinosaurs Eat Ants?
The weird alvarezsaurs look perfectly-adapted to eating termites, but how can we find out what they really ate?
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The Saddest Dinosaur Cartoon Ever
Mountain of Dinosaurs, from 1967, uses extinction as a metaphor for Soviet oppression
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Jurassic Park 4′s Discharged Dinosaur Soldiers
Some scrapped Jurassic Park 4 designs show the movie's insane ideas for dinosaur soldiers
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The Bat-Winged Dinosaur That Never Was
Just when naturalists began to suspect that birds might be dinosaurs, one researcher put forward a truly strange idea of what early bird ancestors would have looked like
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Doing the T. rex Stretch
Did T. rex use its tiny arms to do push-ups?
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How Did Dinosaurs Sleep?
A lovely little fossil shows how some dinosaurs said goodnight
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The Fall of Domino Dinosaurs
A delicately-balanced domino setup replays the end of the Age of Dinosaurs
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Haplocanthosaurus–A Morrison Mystery
Without a skull, determining the dinosaur's relationships is difficult
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Long Live the King
Paleontologists have named scores of dinosaurs, but why is T. rex our favorite?
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Dilophosaurus – An Early Jurassic Icon
Tracks made by a 20-foot predatory dinosaur have been found in rock from Connecticut to Arizona, but who made the tracks?
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Dinosaur Sighting: Recyclosaurus
A reader shows us a snapshot of a spare-parts dinosaur
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Triceratops Wasn’t Toxic
Triceratops was an awesome dinosaur, but, despite one site's claim, it wasn't equipped with poisonous quills
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Dino Time Botches Dino Feathers
Feathered dinosaurs are wonderful, but DinoTime 3D makes them look stupid
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Did Dinosaurs Swim?
Carnivorous theropod dinosaurs were thought to be hydrophobic, but swim tracks show that these predators at least sometimes took a dip in lakes and rivers
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What Kind of Dinosaur is Godzilla?
Everyone knows that Godzilla is a radioactive dinosaur, but just what sort of dinosaur is the famous monster?
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The Awkwardness of Tyrant Teens
Adult T. rex had the most powerful bite of any creature to walk the earth, but they had to grow into that destructive power
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Tussling Over Thecodontosaurus
The history of Thecodontosaurus, the fourth dinosaur ever named, is a tangled tale of paleontologist politics
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The Unfortunate Life of Speckles the Tyrannosaur
Combining tropes from various other films, Speckles: The Tarbosaurus 3D shows just how tired dinosaur cinema is
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The Worst Dinosaur Ever
There are plenty of awful movie dinosaurs, but the tyrannosaur in a 1990 rip-off of The Fly is the worst of all
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Sinking a Sauropod
Paleontologists are naming new dinosaurs every week, but some names are eventually sent to the scientific wastebasket
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