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The Dinosaur Family Foodchain
You Are Umasou has to be one of the cutest dinosaur films ever, and one of the strangest
December 13, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaurs In Space!
It's not just science fiction—dinosaurs have already been in space twice
December 12, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Alamosaurus Gets Pumped Up
New fossils give a body size boost to what may have been North America's largest dinosaur, Alamosaurus
December 09, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Who Wrote the First Dinosaur Novel?
A decade before The Lost World debuted, one science fiction writer beat Arthur Conan Doyle to the dinosaurian punch.
December 08, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Spinops: The Long-Lost Dinosaur
Spinops was one funky looking dinosaur, and its discovery emphasizes the role of museum collections. Who knows what else is waiting to be rediscovered?
December 07, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Sighting: Hardcover Tyrannosaurus
The "Library Phantom" strikes again, and transforms a copy of The Lost World into a prehistoric scene
December 06, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Disney’s Age of Dinosaurs
As ugly as they were, some of Fantasia's dinosaurs were ahead of their time
December 05, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
A Detailed Guide to a Hadrosaur’s Foot
This is not super-sexy research, but some of the biggest gaps in our understanding about dinosaurs involve relatively simple things
December 02, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Lambe’s Lazy, Scavenging Gorgosaurus
Back when tyrannosaurs were new to science, paleontologist Lawrence Lambe cast them as bumbling scavengers that ate rotten flesh
December 01, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Inside Sauropod Armor
A hollow, thin-walled bone is not exactly the sort of structure that is going to protect a sauropod from attack—so what was its purpose?
November 30, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Has Terra Nova Delivered on the Dinosaurs?
What's the use of setting your science-fiction family drama 85 million years in the past if you're not going to highlight some of the local fauna?
November 29, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
The Simpsons Sit With Dinosaurs
D'oh! Homer and the gang meet up with some scary dinosaurs
November 28, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Was Tyrannosaurus a Big Turkey?
Tyrannosaurus has an image as the apex of the apex predators, and maybe that's why people get upset when paleontologists suggest it was at least partly covered in a coat of feathers
November 23, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Non-Avian Dinosaur Eats Avian Dinosaur
Paleontologists have found the bones of a bird inside a feathered dinosaur. What can this discovery tell us about how Microraptor lived?
November 22, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Paleontologists Track Dinosaurs Near Las Vegas
Very few skeletons have been found from this period, and much of what we know about the dinosaurs of the Early Jurassic Southwest comes from tracksites
November 21, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Telltale Games Returns to Jurassic Park
A new adventure game goes back to the scene of the crime that set the catastrophic events of the first film in motion
November 18, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Pampadromaeus: Brazil’s Triassic Plains Runner
A newly discovered dinosaur from Brazil may give paleontologists a better understanding of what the ancestral dinosaur looked like
November 17, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
What Caused the Dinosaur Stampede?
According to a recent study, the cause of Australia's "Dinosaur Stampede" may have been more comedic than nightmarish
November 15, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Leyesaurus and the Origins of Giants
A new dinosaur found in northwestern Argentina adds more detail to the big picture of how forerunners to Jurassic giants evolved
November 14, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Montana’s “Dueling Dinosaurs”
Did a recently discovered pair of dinosaurs die at each other's throats?
November 10, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
