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Paleontologists have named scores of dinosaurs, but why is T. rex our favorite?
October 03, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Tracks made by a 20-foot predatory dinosaur have been found in rock from Connecticut to Arizona, but who made the tracks?
October 02, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A reader shows us a snapshot of a spare-parts dinosaur
October 01, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Triceratops was an awesome dinosaur, but, despite one site's claim, it wasn't equipped with poisonous quills
September 28, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Physicist Michio Kaku says we'll be able to clone dinosaurs in the future, but he glosses over some crucial technicalities
September 27, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Feathered dinosaurs are wonderful, but DinoTime 3D makes them look stupid
September 25, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new development in the ongoing Tarbosaurus struggle complicates attempts to send the dinosaur home
September 25, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Carnivorous theropod dinosaurs were once thought to be hydrophobic, but rare swim tracks show that these predators at least sometimes took a dip in lakes and rivers
September 24, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Everyone knows that Godzilla is a radioactive dinosaur, but just what sort of dinosaur is the famous monster?
September 21, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Adult T. rex had the most powerful bite of any creature to walk the earth, but they had to grow into that destructive power
September 20, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The history of Thecodontosaurus, the fourth dinosaur ever named, is a tangled tale of paleontologist politics
September 19, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Combining tropes from various other films, Speckles: The Tarbosaurus 3D shows just how tired dinosaur cinema is
September 18, 2012
| By Brian Switek
There are plenty of awful movie dinosaurs, but the tyrannosaur in a 1990 rip-off of The Fly is the worst of all
September 17, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The dinosaur had the strongest bite of any land animal – even harder than we previously thought
October 2012
| By Brian Switek
Paleontologists are naming new dinosaurs every week, but some names are eventually sent to the scientific wastebasket
September 14, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new study reexamines the skeleton of Olorotitan, a lovely hadrosaur from Russia
September 13, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Meet "Adrianne", the Triceratops-Jeep mashup
September 12, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Artist Tyler Keillor wants to bring Dryptosaurus--an unsung tyrannosaur--back to life
September 11, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Doctor Who stirred buzz by presenting dinosaurs on a spaceship, but just how accurate were the show's prehistoric creatures?
September 10, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Can paleontologists identify the influence of sexual selection in the fossil record?
September 07, 2012
| By Brian Switek
As cartoonist Randall Munroe points out, feathers make dinosaurs cooler than ever
September 06, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Spider-Man once saved his city from a terrible dinosaur, but you'll never guess what he wanted as a reward
September 05, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Utah paleontologists unveil Martharaptor, an enigmatic Cretaceous dinosaur
September 04, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Rare stomach contents reveal the last meals of two fluffy dinosaur predators
August 31, 2012
| By Brian Switek
We love to debate dinosaur size, but a lack of tails complicates our attempts to find out who the biggest dinosaurs of all were
August 30, 2012
| By Brian Switek
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