Mesozoic Era
(251 - 65 MYA)
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
Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 14
The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin
July 03, 2008 |
By Michelle Coffey
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
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
The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs
How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
December 2007 |
By Mitch Leslie
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
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
Shadows on the Rock
Spain wants Gibraltar; the people of the Rock hate the very idea; England is caught in the middle
September 1997 |
By Timothy Foote
The Object at Hand
From a forest that flourished 207 million years ago, the Sherman Logs bear stony witness to a general's curiosity--and life in an age gone by
June 1997 |
By Adele Conover

