Dinosaurs

The Dark Tyrannosaurus - a dinosaur dressed up to celebrate the filming of the third Batman movie in Pittsburgh

The Dark Tyrannosaurus Rises

I can't imagine a crime-fighting theropod would follow Batman's strict moral code against killing criminals

The truck-mounted coring rig set up at the Basin Substation site.

Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #6: Bringing Up a Core

One thing everyone has told us is that you never know what you will find underground

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

Allie and Elizabeth make their way across a steep badland slope as we prospect for new sites to collect Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum plant fossils. The red layers on the hill behind them represent the lowest part of the PETM.

Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #5: An All-Star Team of Scientists

A geologist, a geochemist and a paleontologist go into an (ancient sand) bar

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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

After three days of working, Scott Wing and his crew went to the Churchill family picnic in Powell, Wyoming.

Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #4: Paleontologists’ Summer Family

Mired in the mud? Need an emergency place to stay? The Churchill family has helped out for more than 80 years

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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

A T. rex sighting in South Dakota

Dinosaur Sighting: Wall Drug

The ultimate roadside attraction features a T. rex that shakes its head, snaps its jaws and RAWRs

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

Part of a fossil palm frond from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Wyoming.

Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #3: How to date a fossil

The Bighorn Basin’s colorful stripes reveal an ancient riverbed

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