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Digging up Dinosaurs

Follow a paleontology team as they dig up dinosaurs in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin

Fossil prospector Ron Frithiof

The Dinosaur Fossil Wars

Across the American West, legal battles over dinosaur fossils are on the rise as amateur prospectors make major finds
April 2009 | By Donovan Webster

Location of northern polar dinosaur discoveries

Dinosaur Tracking: How Did the Siberian Dinosaurs Die?

New research from a Russian site suggests that some dinosaurs were able to thrive in very cold temperatures
January 2009 | By Maura McCarthy

Dinosaur winter

Dinosaur Tracking: Snowbirds From Another Era

Strangely enough, some dinosaurs might have migrated much like birds do now
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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
July 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

A view of the outcrop

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 14

The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin
July 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

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
July 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

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
July 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 1

Michelle Coffey moves from biology class to the Bighorn Basin and prepares for her first dinosaur dig
July 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

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
May 2008 | By Genevieve Rajewski

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
November 2007 | By Sarah Zielinski

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