Paleontologists
Scientists Discover a Large and Feathered Dinosaur that Once Roamed North America
The 'Anzu wyliei' species looks like a cross between a chicken and a lizard
What Prehistoric Reptile Do These Three-foot Claws Belong To?
Claws once thought to belong to a giant turtle turned out to be from one of the weirdest dinosaurs ever found
What is Genyodectes?
A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent?
Stegosaurus Plate Debate
Stegosaurus is immediately recognizable for its prominent plates, but why did these structures actually evolve?
Finding Duriavenator
Jaws once thought to be from Megalosaurus belong instead to this little-known species
Finding Hayden’s Dinosaurs
Thanks to some historical detectivework, a pair of researchers has relocated one of the earliest recognized dinosaur sites in the American west
C is for Cetiosaurus
Sauropods are iconic dinosaurs, but the first of their kind ever found was initially thought to be a huge crocodile
B is for Becklespinax
For over a century and a half, paleontologists have been confounded by the sail-backed carnivore Becklespinax. What did this dinosaur really look like?
The Bat-Winged Dinosaur That Never Was
Just when naturalists began to suspect that birds might be dinosaurs, one researcher put forward a truly strange idea of what early bird ancestors would have looked like
Doing the T. rex Stretch
Did T. rex use its tiny arms to do push-ups?
Long Live the King
Paleontologists have named scores of dinosaurs, but why is T. rex our favorite?
Did Dinosaurs Swim?
Carnivorous theropod dinosaurs were thought to be hydrophobic, but swim tracks show that these predators at least sometimes took a dip in lakes and rivers
Tussling Over Thecodontosaurus
The history of Thecodontosaurus, the fourth dinosaur ever named, is a tangled tale of paleontologist politics
Birmingham’s Smoking Dinosaurs
In 1938, awful dinosaurs roamed Birmingham, England
New Wrinkle in Tarbosaurus Kerfuffle
The man who prepared an illicit tyrannosaur specimen claims that the dinosaur is rightly his
The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth
Contrary to a popular myth, dinosaurs didn't have butt brains
A Brief History of Hidden Dinosaurs
Even though scientific interest in dinosaurs is relatively new, our species have been puzzling about the prehistoric creatures for centuries
In the Steps of a Hungry Acrocanthosaurus
A special set of footprints may record a dinosaur attack in progress
Disease and the Demise of the Dinosaurs
Cataracts, slipped discs, epidemics, glandular problems and even a loss of sex drive have all been proposed as the reason non-avian dinosaurs perished
Shovel-Beaked, Not Duck-Billed
A rare fossil shows that duck-billed dinosaurs were not so duck-like after all
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