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Eaters of the Dinosaur Dead
Over the past few years, paleontologists have reported a growing number of cases of scavenging by insects
August 09, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Sighting: Cowboys & Raptors
If you find yourself riding a Deinonychus, you'd better make sure you keep riding it lest you find out how effective those recurved claws can be
August 08, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Protoceratops: The Cinderella of Dinosaurs
Have scientists found "the holy grail of vertebrate ichnology"—a dinosaur dead in its tracks?
August 05, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
An Open Letter to Steven Spielberg
Something has been troubling me, Steve. I worry what your recent news means for us dinosaur fans
August 04, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #5: An All-Star Team of Scientists
A geologist, a geochemist and a paleontologist go into an (ancient sand) bar
August 04, 2011 |
By Scott Wing
Dinosaur Office
As bad as your workplace is, at least you don't have to worry about your tyrannosaur boss eating you for lunch
August 03, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Spain’s Tiny Sauropods Traveled Together
At least six individuals moved in the same direction, nearly parallel to each other—the tracks represent a herd
August 02, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #4: Paleontologists’ Summer Family
Mired in the mud? Need an emergency place to stay? The Churchill family has helped out for more than 80 years
August 02, 2011 |
By Scott Wing
Battling the Dinosaurs of Project Blackout
Dinosaurs are handy video game monsters. They're famous, fearsome and nearly unstoppable
August 01, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
The Intriguing, Frustrating Camposaurus
Paleontologists have reexamined the paltry bones and affirmed that the creature is an important link to the early days of theropod dinosaurs
July 29, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Tendaguru’s Lost World
The African fossil sites preserve dinosaur fossils that are strangely similar to their North American counterparts
July 28, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Sighting: Wall Drug
The ultimate roadside attraction features a T. rex that shakes its head, snaps its jaws and RAWRs
July 27, 2011 |
By Laura Helmuth
Barnum Brown’s Paleo Pick
Does "Mr. Bones" really deserve credit for inventing an essential field tool?
July 26, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Taking a Bite Out of a Sauropod Tail
The tail vertebra has gouges, divots and scores in five places from at least two different predators
July 25, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Acristavus: North America’s New Hadrosaur
Dinosaurs with weird structures such as sails, crests and arrays of horns often make the news, but in this case, the lack of specialized structures is more important
July 22, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
South America’s First Dinosaur Tracks
Tracks now readily recognizable as belonging to dinosaurs were once attributed to prodigious birds and other creatures
July 21, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Sighting: Crocosaurus
It looks more like an alligator doing a dinosaur impression, but there is something unmistakably dinosaurian about it
July 20, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #3: How to date a fossil
The Bighorn Basin’s colorful stripes reveal an ancient riverbed
July 20, 2011 |
By Scott Wing
Los Angeles’ New Dinosaur Hall
Buzz about the new displays, particularly a trio of Tyrannosaurus growth stages, has been growing for months
July 19, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
Making a Home in a Dinosaur Egg
There were five spherical eggs in the 70-something-million-year-old clutch. One egg was cracked in half and filled with cocoons
July 18, 2011 |
By Brian Switek
