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The Most Exciting (and Frustrating) Stories From This Year in Dinosaurs
From feathers to black market fossil controversies, 2012 was a big year for dinosaurs
December 14, 2012
| By Brian Switek
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Recently unveiled dinosaur sculptures are frustrating eyesores to some and tourist attractions to others
December 13, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Were enigmatic, 230-million-year-old burrows created by dinosaurs?
December 12, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Dinosaurs can help us unlock essential secrets about the history of life on Earth
December 11, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The name of the long-snouted dinosaur Irritator hints at the troubled history surrounding the spinosaur's classification
December 10, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Claw Shapes: A Glimpse Into the Lifestyle of Raptors?
December 07, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Claws once thought to belong to a giant turtle turned out to be from one of the weirdest dinosaurs ever found
December 06, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A fragmentary skeleton pins the emergence of dinosaurs more than 10 million years earlier than previously thought
December 05, 2012
| By Brian Switek
An articulated hand found in southern Utah complicates the story of North America's feathery, beaked oviraptorosaurs
December 04, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new book argues that dinosaur reconstructions, which stretch skin over bone, are bound to be inaccurate and imagines what the creatures may have looked with more fat, feathers and accessory adornments
November 30, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Were these Late Cretaceous dinosaurs just the culmination of an evolutionary trend towards ever-larger body size or was something else at work?
November 29, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Was the early bird Archaeopteryx more of a glider than a flier?
November 28, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent?
November 27, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Gigantspinosaurus had enormous shoulder spikes, but what were these ornaments used for?
November 26, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Stegosaurus is immediately recognizable for its prominent plates, but why did these structures actually evolve?
November 23, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Everyone knows that birds are dinosaurs, but what kind of dinosaur is your holiday turkey?
November 22, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Were extra-thick hides the secret to why paleontologists have found so much fossilized hadrosaur skin?
November 21, 2012
| By Brian Switek
When did dinosaurs start to become giants? Enigmatic bone fragments found in England complicate the debate
November 20, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Though not as famous as other huge dinosaurs, Futalognkosaurus is the most complete giant sauropod ever found
November 19, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Slender limb bones found in Argentina give away a new species of tiny dinosaur
November 16, 2012
| By Brian Switek
New dinosaurs are always cause for excitement, but the real joy of paleontology is investigating dinosaur lives
November 15, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Dinosaur skin impressions aren't as rare as you might think, but how they form is a mystery
November 14, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Amateur paleontologist Ray Stanford has a great talent for tracking Maryland's Cretaceous dinosaurs
November 13, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The recently discovered Eotriceratops might yield important clues about how the famous Triceratops evolved
November 12, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Canadian researchers found the horned dinosaur hiding in storage
November 09, 2012
| By Brian Switek
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