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Why is Tyrannosaurus always depicted as chasing after Triceratops? If this t-shirt from Threadless is correct, it is because Triceratops was filled with candy. Tyrannosaurus did not want to dine on the bones of the horned dinosaur but was only after the sweets inside. It's a good thing that Tyranno...
August 25, 2009 | By Brian Switek

There are a few ways to see Morrison, Colorado's famed "Dinosaur Ridge." If you just want to have a look at the tracks you can walk or bike up the roadside trail, but if you want a less strenuous guided tour you can hop onto the new electric-powered "Cartosaurus."According to Denver's CBS4 News the...
August 24, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Earlier this month, reader Stephen Sasser sent us a vintage photo of him and his family at Thunderbeast Park in Oregon. Unfortunately, Thunderbeast Park is now closed, but in the comments of the post featuring the picture another reader named Doug gave us a tip about some other dinosaur sculptures ...
August 21, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Earlier this summer I asked readers to decide which city deserved the title of "Dinosaur Capital of the World." Glen Rose, Texas took an early lead, but Drumheller, in Alberta, Canada, is now sitting comfortably in the top spot. A more contentious question, though, is "What is top museum to visit i...
August 20, 2009 | By Brian Switek

I love old books and papers. It is important to stay on top of the latest peer-reviewed articles and symposium volumes, but every now and then I like to pull a yellowing old science book from the shelf and see what scientists of centuries past had to say.One of my favorite volumes in my little libr...
August 19, 2009 | By Brian Switek

For the 2005 remake of King Kong, the special effects team at the Weta Workshop imagined what dinosaurs would be like if they survived into modern times. In fact, the artists created an entire menagerie that ended up filling the pages of The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island, includi...
August 18, 2009 | By Brian Switek

As I walked through the traveling exhibit "Chinasaurs: Dinosaur Dynasty" in the Maryland Science Center, I felt like I was inside a giant typewriter. Scattered through the exhibit were animatronic versions of Protoceratops, Oviraptor and Velociraptor, and the hall was filled with the clipping and t...
August 17, 2009 | By Brian Switek

If you go sneaking around the Google campus in Mountain View, California, you might want to be aware that the company has a Tyrannosaurus on the prowl. An anonymous reader in California recently tipped us off that a skeletal sculpture of the dinosaur can be seen on the company's grounds, and it has...
August 14, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Lloyd Scott, a survivor of childhood leukemia, wanted to do something big for the United Kingdom's Teenage Cancer Trust. He had planned to raise £500,000 for the organization by walking from Land's End to John O'Groats, a trip of over 1,000 miles that would take 70 days to cover, but Scott knew he ...
August 13, 2009 | By Brian Switek

The extinction of the dinosaurs has long been a mystery. Generation after generation of paleontologists have proposed different mechanisms that could have sent the dinosaurs into oblivion. Today much of the debate over their extinction centers around the damage done by a large hunk of rock from out...
August 12, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Hollywood movies make fossil-collecting looks easy. A prospector or paleontologist finds a fossil, digs it up, and then takes it away for sale or study. Yet this is a far cry from what actually happened when the first remains of a skeleton of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus that would come to be nicknamed...
August 11, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Naming a new dinosaur can be a tricky thing. Although nearly-complete skeletons often make headlines, more often than not new species are based upon fragmentary material. In these cases further discoveries are often needed to determine whether the species really is new, and every now and then it tu...
August 10, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Today's submission is a vintage shot submitted by Stephen Sasser of Portland, Oregon.In 1958 Stephen (on the left), his brother (on the right), and his dad (center) took a drive up Oregon's State Highway 97 to Thunderbeast Park, and during the trip he stopped to pose with his family in front of the...
August 07, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Vertebrate paleontologist David Hone has always been "obsessed and fascinated by animals." He got his start studying zoology and working at the London Zoo, but his attention later turned to much more ancient creatures. Vertebrate paleontology has benefited from his shift of focus. Since beginning h...
August 06, 2009 | By Brian Switek

There is no question that Tyrannosaurus rex was a predatory dinosaur. It was a gargantuan animal with immense jaws lined with railroad spike-size teeth that could be slammed into a prey animal with enough force to puncture bone. At first glance it might seem that the answer to the question "What di...
August 05, 2009 | By Brian Switek

If the principal of Thomson Elementary School in Thomson, Georgia, thinks she has rid her school of dinosaurs, the joke's on her. According to the McDuffie Mirror, principal Anita Cummings recently decided to paint over a dinosaur mural and remove dinosaur tracks from the school because: The dinosa...
August 04, 2009 | By Brian Switek

When I was growing up I absolutely loved the lavishly illustrated Zoobooks series, so I was glad to hear that the series creator, John Wexo, has just published a new dinosaur book for kids. Called Where Did Dinosaurs Come From?, the new book is geared towards young readers and is chock-full of colo...
August 03, 2009 | By Brian Switek

In 2004, a traveling dinosaur exhibit came to visit Nashville, Tennessee's Cheekwood botanical gardens, and during that time the garden hosted its annual Swan Ball. I don't think any dinosaurs were invited, but as this photo by reader Susan Adcock shows, at least one dinosaur got dressed up in the ...
July 31, 2009 | By Brian Switek

More Than One Way to Skin a Dinosaur: At Archosaur Musings, David Hone posts a photo of a nicely preserved piece of dinosaur skin on display at the Geological Museum of China. Hone speculates it’s from a Psittacosaurus. However, the specimen lacks scientific value since we don’t know what part of t...
July 30, 2009 | By Mark Strauss

Scientists at Utah's Dinosaur National Monument have been quite busy this summer. At the beginning of the season they were blasting some sauropod skulls out of the rock for collection, and now the Chicago Tribune reports that they have discovered hundreds of tiny footprints in rock about 190 millio...
July 29, 2009 | By Brian Switek

It is hard for me to say "no" to any movie with a dinosaur in it, so I have seen a LOT of really bad movies. For every Jurassic Park there is a multitude of cheesy movies that can only be endured if you invite some company over to make fun of the film with you. There are a few, though, that make ev...
July 28, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Local council members of Weymouth Bay in Dorset, England were not so pleased when a dinosaur sculpture appeared off one of their beaches
July 25, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Dinosaurs are everywhere, from natural history museums to roadside signs, so we here at Dinosaur Tracking are starting up a new regular feature called "Dinosaur Sightings."Our first entry comes from our own Brian Wolly, a Smithsonian.com web editor who stumbled across "George Washasaurus" while vis...
July 24, 2009 | By Brian Switek

Due to state funding cuts, the University of Wyoming Geological Museum was recently closed down. This is a crying shame, especially since good paleontology museums are as important as ever when it comes to helping the public understand science. Indeed, a recent opinion piece in Rock Springs, Wyomin...
July 23, 2009 | By Brian Switek

A few months ago I wrote about the rush to study and excavate a Cretaceous fossil site in North Arlington, Texas before developers start construction on the land. University of Texas at Arlington paleontologists and students have been scouring the site to learn what they can, and this week they ann...
July 22, 2009 | By Brian Switek

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