Stories from Riley Black
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As bad as your workplace is, at least you don’t have to worry about your tyrannosaur boss eating you for lunch
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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
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Battling the Dinosaurs of Project Blackout
Dinosaurs are handy video game monsters. They’re famous, fearsome and nearly unstoppable
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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
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The African fossil sites preserve dinosaur fossils that are strangely similar to their North American counterparts
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Does “Mr. Bones” really deserve credit for inventing an essential field tool?
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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
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Acristavus: North America’s New Hadrosaur
Dinosaurs with weird structures such as sails and arrays of horns often make the news, but in this case, the lack of specialized structures is important
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South America’s First Dinosaur Tracks
Tracks now readily recognizable as belonging to dinosaurs were once attributed to prodigious birds and other creatures
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Dinosaur Sighting: Crocosaurus
It looks more like an alligator doing a dinosaur impression, but there is something unmistakably dinosaurian about it
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Los Angeles’ New Dinosaur Hall
Buzz about the new displays, particularly a trio of Tyrannosaurus growth stages, has been growing for months
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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
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Dinosaurs are famous for the gargantuan sizes some attained, and that’s why these minuscule skeleton sculptures are so charming
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A Truly Exceptional Allosaurus
Cope did not know it at the time, but he had described an especially large representative of a species his rival had named just a year before
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Dinosaur Sighting: Roadside Triceratops
The main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado is festooned with a number of goofy-looking dinosaurs
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Dome-Headed Dinos Well-Suited to Butting Heads
The researchers compared the skulls of Stegoceras and Prenocephale with head-butting mammals including elk, duiker and musk ox
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Dryptosaurus’ Surprising Hands
This enigmatic tyrannosauroid may have had the novel combination of short arms with big hands
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Dinosaur Sighting: Grilled Triceratops
The town of Granger, Washington has a dinosaur sculpture park as well as dinosaurs adorning various vehicles around town
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Has a Tiny Tyrant Been Dethroned?
A 2009 discovery of a new tiny tyrant has been called into question by a recently released study
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