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Fossil prospector Ron Frithiof

The Dinosaur Fossil Wars

Across the American West, legal battles over dinosaur fossils are on the rise as amateur prospectors make major finds
April 2009 | By Donovan Webster

Location of northern polar dinosaur discoveries

Dinosaur Tracking: How Did the Siberian Dinosaurs Die?

New research from a Russian site suggests that some dinosaurs were able to thrive in very cold temperatures
January 09, 2009 | By Maura McCarthy

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 1

Michelle Coffey moves from biology class to the Bighorn Basin and prepares for her first dinosaur dig
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

Belemnite fossils found during the first day in the field

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 3 and 4

The paleontology team is finally in place. After setting up camp, the dig begins. Fossils are found and dinosaur tracks investigated
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

On the march back from the Death March site, everyone carries bags of sediment

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 6, 7 and 8

The team survives the Death March dig and makes an essential stop in Thermopolis
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

The search yields bones believed to be from a sauropod, a suborder of dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 9, 10 and 11

A new site and more digging yields a dinosaur discovery
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

A view of the outcrop

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 14

The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin
July 03, 2008 | By Michelle Coffey

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
May 2008 | By Genevieve Rajewski

dinosaurs (hypsilophodonts), in fact, survived icy winters in southeastern Australia

The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs

How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
December 2007 | By Mitch Leslie

Taking a Dinosaur's Temperature

Polar species heat up one of paleontology's great debates
December 2007 | By Mitch Leslie

William Hammer, a paleontologist from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, digs on Mount Kirkpatrick in Antarctica, about 400 miles from the South Pole.

Bones to Pick

Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic
November 26, 2007 | By Sarah Zielinski

A tiny blob of stretchy brown matter, soft tissue from inside the leg bone, suggests the specimen had not completely decomposed

Dinosaur Shocker

Probing a 68-million-year-old T. rex, Mary Schweitzer stumbled upon astonishing signs of life that may radically change our view of the beasts that once ruled the earth
May 2006 | By Helen Fields

Head's Up

From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing
October 2001 | By Michael Kernan

A Tale of Two Rocks

Retrieved from a mile beneath the earth's surface 65 million years after their creation, they bear witness to a cataclysm - and the death of the dinosaurs
April 1998 | By Valerie Jablow


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