Paleontology
Peering Inside Dinosaur Skin
Dinosaur skin impressions aren't as rare as you might think, but how they form is a mystery
November 14, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Tracking Dinosaurs With Ray Stanford
Amateur paleontologist Ray Stanford has a great talent for tracking Maryland's Cretaceous dinosaurs
November 13, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Paleontologists Welcome Xenoceratops to the Ceratopsian Family Tree
Canadian researchers found the horned dinosaur hiding in storage
November 09, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Piecing Together Eolambia
Paleontologists uncover a new look for one of Cretaceous Utah's most common dinosaurs, Eolambia
November 08, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Did Sauropods Have Built-In Swamp Coolers?
Paleobiologists are still trying to figure out how large sauropods prevented themselves from overheating
November 07, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Finding Duriavenator
Jaws once thought to be from Megalosaurus belong instead to this little-known species
November 06, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
New Dinosaur Discovered – Named After the Demonic Sauron from Lord of the Rings
A bizarre skull fragment hints at a new species of giant predatory dinosaur from Morocco
November 02, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Following Dinosaur Falls
Dinosaurs undoubtedly slipped and fell. But did they leave any evidence of their mishaps in the fossil record?
November 01, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
What Scared Dinosaurs? The Terror Croc
Deinosuchus, an enormous alliagtoroid, undoubtedly gave dinosaurs much to fear
October 31, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
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
October 30, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
C is for Cetiosaurus
Sauropods are iconic dinosaurs, but the first of their kind ever found was initially thought to be a huge crocodile
October 29, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Did Tyrannosaurus Ever Battle Triceratops?
We love to imagine Tyrannosaurus fighting Triceratops to the death, but did such battles ever happen?
October 26, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Feathery Ostrich Mimics Enfluffle the Dinosaur Family Tree
A trio of feathered dinosaurs tests a longstanding hypothesis and hint that there may be more feathered dinosaur fossils than anyone ever expected
October 25, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Reviving Heterodontosaurus
Paleontologists have known about Heterodontosaurus for decades, but a new restoration of the dinosaur shows just how freaky it was
October 24, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
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?
October 22, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Stampede, the Musical
What caused Australia's dinosaur stampede? A short musical performance suggests an answer
October 18, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Did Dinosaurs Eat Ants?
The weird alvarezsaurs look perfectly-adapted to eating termites, but how can we find out what they really ate?
October 17, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
The Saddest Dinosaur Cartoon Ever
Mountain of Dinosaurs, from 1967, uses extinction as a metaphor for Soviet oppression
October 16, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Jurassic Park 4′s Discharged Dinosaur Soldiers
Some scrapped Jurassic Park 4 designs show the movie's insane ideas for dinosaur soldiers
October 12, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
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
October 11, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
