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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
June 15, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Shovel-Beaked, Not Duck-Billed
A rare fossil shows that duck-billed dinosaurs were not so duck-like after all
June 14, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
The Dinosaurs They are a-Changin’
Paleontologists are describing new dinosaurs at an unprecedented pace, but there's much we still don't know about the biology of these animals
June 12, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Brontosaurus Returns
Paleontologists may have killed the dinosaur a century ago, but it was revitalized in the King Kong remake
June 05, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
The Fantastic Gliding Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus was as aerodynamic as a brick, but one writer thought the prickly dinosaur used its huge plates for gliding
May 30, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Tarbosaurus on Trial
An almost certainly poached tyrannosaur skeleton kicks off a legal dispute over Mongolia's fossil heritage
May 22, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
What Really Sparked the Hindenburg Disaster?
Seventy-five years later, opinions still vary on what caused the airship to explode so suddenly
May 10, 2012 |
By Joseph Stromberg
The Demise of a Wooden Dinosaur
A Victorian-era naturalist thought he'd found a new kind of dinosaur, and he threw a fit when other naturalists disagreed
May 08, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Wading With Sauropods
Even before the Dinosaur Renaissance moved sauropods out of the swamps, paleontologists recognized that some of these dinosaurs were better suited to life on land
April 17, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Why Brontosaurus Still Matters
Though it never actually existed, Brontosaurus is an icon of just how much dinosaurs have changed during the past century
April 10, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Ethereal Dinosaurs
Prior to the 1925 debut of The Lost World, the novelist pulled a stunt to make people think dinosaurs might still be alive in a distant jungle
March 13, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Excavating the River of Giants
Rare footage shows how paleontologist R.T. Bird diverted a river to excavate a set of Texas dinosaur tracks in 1938
March 12, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Arabic Manuscripts: It Used To Snow in Iraq
Baghdad was the bustling capital of the vast Islamic Empire a thousand years ago, when the city's climate was much different than today
February 27, 2012 |
By Virginia Hughes
Alan Turing’s 60-Year-Old Prediction About Patterns in Nature Proven True
Sixty years ago, with nothing but numbers, logic and some basic know-how, the inventor of the Turing Test explained how to make a stripe
February 21, 2012 |
By Virginia Hughes
The Biggest Dinosaur Ever, Or Not
There are two "semi-apocryphal" dinosaurs that may have been significantly bigger than the biggest whales
February 21, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
How Did the Biggest Dinosaurs Get it On?
Of all the dinosaur mysteries, how dinosaurs like the 23-ton Apatosaurus mated is one of the most perplexing
February 09, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Who Was the First to Discover Dinosaur Eggs?
Despite an immense wave of publicity heralding the discovery of dinosaur eggs in 1923, French paleontologists had discovered them decades earlier
February 08, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Scrambled Eggs and the Demise of the Dinosaurs
Did egg-eating lizards and snakes contribute to the dinosaurs' extinction?
February 02, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
The Largest Ceratosaurus
How many species of this rare, ornamented genus were there?
January 19, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Division is All in the Hips
Thanks to one 1888 paper, paleontologists still divide dinosaurs between the bird-hips and lizard-hips
January 17, 2012 |
By Brian Switek
