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Nothing is cuter than a troublemaking baby Tyrannosaurus
June 04, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A dinosaur movie not fit for children could really run with the idea of what life would be like if packs of Deinonychus roamed the streets
June 01, 2012
| By Brian Switek
For the first time in years, visitors can once again see the nation's most productive Jurassic park
May 31, 2012
| By Brian Switek
An almost complete skeleton was sold for more than a million dollars, but what will become of this rare specimen?
May 31, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Stegosaurus was as aerodynamic as a brick, but one writer thought the prickly dinosaur used its huge plates for gliding
May 30, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The peculiar way birds grow up got its start among feathery non-avian dinosaurs
May 29, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A bonebed in Argentina with three sauropods of different sizes adds new evidence that some of these dinosaurs were social creatures
May 25, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A newly described abelisaurid pushes back the history of the blunt-skulled, stubby-armed predators
May 24, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A wannabe-biologist is planning to bring a dinosaur back alive, even though the creature he's after doesn't exist
May 23, 2012
| By Brian Switek
An almost certainly poached tyrannosaur skeleton kicks off a legal dispute over Mongolia's fossil heritage
May 22, 2012
| By Brian Switek
There was a full artistic reconstruction in the 2010 paper that described the dinosaur, but it's another thing altogether to see the dinosaur's reconstructed skeleton
May 21, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The key take-home lesson: Never anger anyone with a thagomizer
May 18, 2012
| By Brian Switek
An isolated bone shows that Cretaceous Australia had an even richer mix of predatory dinosaurs
May 17, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Dinosaurs probably wouldn't have been very good at mini-golf—imagine a Carnotaurus with a putter—but they make for excellent fairway decor
May 16, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Lazy journalists and unscrupulous documentary creators have demonstrated that they just can't play nice with Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and kin
May 15, 2012
| By Brian Switek
King Kong's fearsome Brontosaurus found a home in an out-of-the-way Utah museum
May 14, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The History Channel presents cranks, creationists and self-appointed challengers of science who take on the idea that aliens caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs
May 11, 2012
| By Brian Switek
An isolated Utah gas station created its own rendition of the iconic Sinclair dinosaur
May 10, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new study claims dinosaur farts contributed to prehistoric climate change, but don't believe reports that they gassed themselves to death
May 09, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A Victorian-era naturalist thought he'd found a new kind of dinosaur, and he threw a fit when other naturalists disagreed
May 08, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Even though dinosaurs never lived in the sea, a few unfortunate specimens created temporary reefs in ancient oceans
May 07, 2012
| By Brian Switek
At a spooky abandoned theme park, once-regal dinosaurs are suffering a second extinction
May 04, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A damaged skull throws support to the idea that some dome-headed dinosaurs butted heads
May 03, 2012
| By Brian Switek
After a long lull, a stampede of dinosaur films is headed for theaters
May 02, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Were the last dinosaurs thriving or declining just before Tyrannosaurus and kin disappeared?
May 01, 2012
| By Brian Switek
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