Dinosaur winter

Dinosaur Tracking: Snowbirds From Another Era

Strangely enough, some dinosaurs might have migrated much like birds do now

Dinosaur Dispatch

Follow a paleontology team as their dinosaur dig gets underway in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin

The search yields bones believed to be from a sauropod, a suborder of dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 9, 10 and 11

A new site and more digging yields a dinosaur discovery

A view of the outcrop

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 14

The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin

On the march back from the Death March site, everyone carries bags of sediment

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 6, 7 and 8

The team survives the Death March dig and makes an essential stop in Thermopolis

Belemnite fossils found during the first day in the field

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 3 and 4

The paleontology team is finally in place. After setting up camp, the dig begins. Fossils are found and dinosaur tracks investigated

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 1

Michelle Coffey moves from biology class to the Bighorn Basin and prepares for her first dinosaur dig

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived

William Hammer, a paleontologist from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, digs on Mount Kirkpatrick in Antarctica, about 400 miles from the South Pole.

Bones to Pick

Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic

Not just warm-weather creatures, dinosaurs (hypsilophodonts), in fact, survived icy winters in southeastern Australia 100 million years ago, when the continent was close to the South Pole.

The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs

How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?

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