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How Did the Biggest Dinosaurs Get it On?
Of all the dinosaur mysteries, how dinosaurs like the 23-ton Apatosaurus mated is one of the most perplexing
February 09, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Despite an immense wave of publicity heralding the discovery of dinosaur eggs in 1923, French paleontologists had discovered them decades earlier
February 08, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new study suggests that you can distinguish different hadrosaur species by their pebbly hides alone
February 07, 2012
| By Brian Switek
An animated short suggests dinosaurs died out for want of winter coats
February 06, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Did Velociraptor hunt under the cover of darkness?
February 03, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Did egg-eating lizards and snakes contribute to the dinosaurs' extinction?
February 02, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Instead of a long, low duck bill, the beak of Tethyshadros was shaped like a snowplow and serrated. Why it had such a strange beak is a mystery
February 01, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new cartoon series counts the many things tiny-armed Tyrannosaurus couldn't do: cross-country ski, eat from a buffet, count to five
January 31, 2012
| By Brian Switek
How did a heavily armored dinosaur wind up at the bottom of Alberta's Cretaceous sea?
January 30, 2012
| By Brian Switek
From New York to California, America's roads are haunted by bad dinosaurs
January 27, 2012
| By Brian Switek
British actor Stephen Fry narrates a new interactive dinosaur encyclopedia.
January 26, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The "lay 'em and leave 'em" strategy might not have been the ancestral state for these dinosaurs
January 25, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The forelimbs of this animal look like an evolutionary joke
January 24, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The sauropod site may have resembled Yellowstone National Park, with geysers, hot springs and mud pots
January 23, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The concrete and plastic dinosaurs beside America's highways are often sad, malformed creatures. What do you think is the best of the worst?
January 20, 2012
| By Brian Switek
How many species of this rare, ornamented genus were there?
January 19, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Dr. Who sported some of the worst dinosaurs on television. This video explains why
January 18, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Thanks to one 1888 paper, paleontologists still divide dinosaurs between the bird-hips and lizard-hips
January 17, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Some researchers insist that birds are not dinosaurs, but do they have any evidence?
January 13, 2012
| By Brian Switek
If the non-avian dinosaurs hadn't died out 65 million years ago, what would they look like today?
January 12, 2012
| By Brian Switek
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