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The dinosaur paleontologists named Oviraptor, “egg thief,” ironically turned out to be a caring mother
July 20, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Huge dinosaurs like Diplodocus couldn't chew, so how did they eat?
July 18, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Even though Dino Beatdown delivers on the jetpacks and Velociraptor, that's not enough to make it a fun game.
July 16, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Does the first issue of Dinosaurs vs Aliens live up to the hype?
July 12, 2012 | By Brian Switek

There are probably hundreds of dinosaurs that paleontologists have yet to discover, but will we ever find all the dinosaurs?
July 11, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Almost thirty years after the program first aired, DinosaurTheatre has shared part of an original interview with Natural History Museum paleontologist Angela Milner
July 09, 2012 | By Brian Switek

A rare footprint places a strange group of dinosaurs in Cretaceous Alaska.
July 06, 2012 | By Brian Switek

A newly-discovered fossil raises the possibility that all dinosaur lineages were fuzzy.
July 05, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Argentina unveils a new dinosaur to celebrate the country's bicentennial.
July 03, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Is there any chance that paleontologists will one day find mating dinosaurs?
June 29, 2012 | By Brian Switek

A special set of footprints may record a dinosaur attack in progress
June 28, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Was the million-dollar dinosaur a species of Tyrannosaurus, or was it a different sort of dinosaur?
June 27, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Edmontosaurus has often been called the "cow of the Cretaceous", but did this dinosaur chew like a mammal?
June 25, 2012 | By Brian Switek

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles has beautiful dinosaur displays, but what do the exhibits tell us about your connection to Triceratops and kin?
June 22, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Our ancestors and cousins didn't all live in the shadows of the Mesozoic world—some were burly carnivores
June 20, 2012 | By Brian Switek

A new twist in the million dollar Tarbosaurus controversy may send this dinosaur home
June 19, 2012 | By Brian Switek

A new museum exhibit presents one of the largest dinosaurs ever found
June 18, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Cataracts, slipped discs, epidemics, glandular problems and even a loss of sex drive have all been proposed as the reason non-avian dinosaurs perished
June 15, 2012 | By Brian Switek

A rare fossil shows that duck-billed dinosaurs were not so duck-like after all
June 14, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Apatosaurus means "deceptive lizard," and a short cartoon offers a new interpretation of that name
June 13, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Paleontologists are describing new dinosaurs at an unprecedented pace, but there's much we still don't know about the biology of these animals
June 12, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Paleontologists Lee Hall and Ashley Fragomeni show us what a perfect paleo-themed engagement looks like
June 11, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Is it time to stop calling sickle-clawed dinosaurs "raptors"?
June 08, 2012 | By Brian Switek

wire Apatosaurus looms over a D.C.-area art festival
June 06, 2012 | By Brian Switek

Paleontologists may have killed the dinosaur a century ago, but it was revitalized in the King Kong remake
June 05, 2012 | By Brian Switek

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