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A new video brings you a dinosaur documentary mash-up set to techno beats
March 23, 2012
| By Brian Switek
After nearly a century, a mystery is solved and a skull has been matched to its skeleton
March 22, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A film-in-progress imagines a future in which cowboys ride dinosaurs
March 21, 2012
| By Brian Switek
What were the largest species of all time? Does the Tyrannosaurus rex make the list?
April 2012
| By Brian Switek
In Colombia, the fossil of a gargantuan snake has stunned scientists, forcing them to rethink the nature of prehistoric life
April 2012
| By Guy Gugliotta
A pair of mysterious, tiny dinosaur specimens have turned out to be new species of horned dinosaurs
March 19, 2012
| By Brian Switek
What was life like for Canada's dinosaurs 70 million years ago? Paleontologist Annie Quinney can tell you
March 16, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Brachiosaurus was once thought to be the ultimate prehistoric titan, but we know surprisingly little about this Jurassic dinosaur
March 15, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The reader is correct that Trixie is technically a "real, live dinosaur"
March 14, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Prior to the 1925 debut of The Lost World, the novelist pulled a stunt to make people think dinosaurs might still be alive in a distant jungle
March 13, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Rare footage shows how paleontologist R.T. Bird diverted a river to excavate a set of Texas dinosaur tracks in 1938
March 12, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The feathered, four-winged dinosaur had a glorious sheen
March 09, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Two dinosaur fans decided to get married inside one of the world's most famous roadside dinosaurs
March 07, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The dinosaur-haunted drama has been cancelled. But could—and should—the show live on?
March 06, 2012
| By Brian Switek
The animal ingested by the Velociraptor may have been an azhdarchid, one of the long-legged, long-necked pterosaurs that included the largest flying animals of all time
March 05, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Within just a few years, three species of Styracosaurus were cut down to just one
March 02, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Was Torosaurus really just a grown-up Triceratops? A new paper says "no"
March 01, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new study investigates whether old "three-horned face" held its forelimbs straight down like other dinosaurs or waddled around with its elbows out
February 29, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Orion: Dino Beatdown is another run-and-gun dinosaur shooter, with a little extra hardware to help gamers jump around the battlefield
February 28, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A new concept album by MJ Hibbett & The Validators envisions an invasion of alien cyborg dinosaurs.
February 27, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Paleontologist Jordan Mallon describes how he figured out how many Anchiceratops species actually existed
February 24, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Meet the mysterious small predators that set the stage for the later rise of more imposing tyrants
February 23, 2012
| By Brian Switek
This week we meet a dinosaur that looks as if a clown exploded all over it
February 22, 2012
| By Brian Switek
There are two "semi-apocryphal" dinosaurs that may have been significantly bigger than the biggest whales
February 21, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Smithsonian paleontologist Matthew Carrano explains how to identify dinosaurs from isolated teeth
February 17, 2012
| By Brian Switek
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