Dinosaurs

A bikini-clad "Dinah" in Vernal, Utah

Dinosaur Sighting: Let’s Swim!

The sign makes me smile every time. It was made when the massive sauropod dinosaurs were thought to spend most of their time in water

A restoration of the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus by ДиБгд

Terra Nova, Take Two

The show's setting in a lush, 85-million-year-old jungle may be unique, but the tempo follows many of the standard TV tropes

The juvenile tyrannosaur puppet at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

What It’s Like Inside a Dinosaur

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Dinosaur Sighting: A Special Archaeopteryx 150th Anniversary Edition

A visit to Munich meant a pilgrimage to the paleontology museum

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Catching Up With Planet Dinosaur

Feathered dinosaurs do have feathers, and the cannibalism storyline is solid, but it's a shame to see venomous Sinornithosaurus and the "dino gangs" trap

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The Terrible Dinosaurs of the 1970s

How many students are still meeting outdated dinosaurs, rather than the dinosaurs we now know?

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Is There a Future For Terra Nova?

The show borrows heavily from other sci-fi sources and the first episode was heavy on exposition. But what about the dinosaurs?

Anchiceratops ornatus, on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada

The One and Only Anchiceratops

Paleontologists typically have only a handful of specimens, represented by incomplete materials, from a range of sites spanning millions of years

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Dino-Shooter Promises Primal Carnage

For the first time in 65 million years, non-avian dinosaurs roam the planet—and the best we can do is turn 'em into chunky cat food

The skeleton of Carnotaurus at the Chlupáč Museum in Prague

Why Did Carnotaurus Have Such Wimpy Arms?

The poster for the 2001 b-movie Raptor

Dinosaur Drive-In: Raptor

In it's own weird way, Raptor is the matryoshka doll of awful dinosaur cinema

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"?

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