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To get a better understanding of where Dinosaur Comics fits in the Venn diagram intersection of dinosaur blogs and web comics, I talked with its creator
June 14, 2011
| By Brian Wolly
By fiddling with the genetic toggles of birds, scientists might be able to reverse-engineer a dinosaurian creature
June 13, 2011
| By Brian Switek
After many false starts, scientists finally understood the first fossils of horned dinosaurs
June 10, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Paleontologists have recently learned how these three-horned dinosaurs fought, grew up and socialized
June 09, 2011
| By Brian Switek
The film showcases some of the new techniques paleontologists are using to investigate dinosaur lives
June 08, 2011
| By Brian Switek
A fresh coating of dried mud gave the 150-million-year-old tracks a more recent look, as if dinosaurs had walked by just last week
June 07, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus were fundamentally different, and they remain among the most bizarre dinosaurs yet discovered
June 06, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Should Mamenchisaurus go by the nickname Neckita? Mei Mei? Tiny? Vote now
June 03, 2011
| By Brian Switek
The best of what's being written about dinosaurs in the blogosphere
June 02, 2011
| By Mark Strauss
The area is piled high with sedimentary rock from the heyday of the dinosaurs. At a few spots, it's easy to see the animals' tracks
June 01, 2011
| By Brian Switek
It took a long time—and a new understanding of sauropod lifestyles—to figure out whether they laid eggs or gave birth to live young
May 31, 2011
| By Brian Switek
The giant with the "three-horned face" was originally mistaken for a very different creature
May 27, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Tyrannosaurus rex is the antithesis of everything a good pet should be. “Literally awful and almost certainly needing a special insurance policy” to keep
May 26, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Thanks to new specimens found in China, paleontologists have discovered that Shastasaurus ate very much like a beaked whale does today
May 25, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Are there too many dinosaurs? Paleontologist Jack Horner thinks so, and he explained his reasoning in a short TED talk last month
May 24, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Spinosaurus may not be as popular as Tyrannosaurus, but sculptures and models of the sail-backed predatory dinosaur are fairly common along America's roadsides
May 23, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Though not nearly as common as the bone fragments and bits of tooth found at dinosaur fossil sites, remnants and impressions of dinosaur skin are not as rare as you might think
May 20, 2011
| By Brian Switek
The proposal of pack-hunting dinosaurs is old news in paleontological circles, and the hard evidence to support the claims about Tarbosaurus has not yet been released
May 19, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Richard Polsky writes in the introduction to his travelogue memoir Boneheads, it was time "to experience life all over again," and a search for the most famous predator of all time seemed like just the thing
May 18, 2011
| By Brian Switek
When paleontologists were still just becoming acquainted with the great dinosaurs of the American West, Charles R. Knight created a curious vision of the long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus
May 17, 2011
| By Brian Switek
The new Tarbosaurus juvenile is a truly remarkable specimen
May 16, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Hot on the heels of the American Museum of Natural History's new "World's Largest Dinosaurs" exhibit, London's Natural History Museum has just launched its own dinosaur spectacular
May 13, 2011
| By Brian Switek
Based out of Shell, Wyoming, the workshops can be taken for college credit and are led by Smithsonian paleontologist Michael Brett-Surman
May 12, 2011
| By Brian Switek
In 1913, paleontologists at the American Museum of Natural History made plans for what would have been a spectacular reconstruction of a prehistoric battle. Too bad that their plans did not come to fruition.Tyrannosaurus rex—the most celebrated dinosaur of all time—made its debut at the AMNH. The f...
May 11, 2011
| By Brian Switek
What was Kelmayisaurus? Discovered in 1973, the lower jaw and partial upper jaw of this large, predatory dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China have been frustratingly difficult to interpret. Maybe Kelmayisaurus belonged to some obscure lineage of archaic theropod dinosaurs, or perhaps the fos...
May 10, 2011
| By Brian Switek
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