Stories from Riley Black
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110728093004Giraffatitan-Tendaguru-small.jpg)
The African fossil sites preserve dinosaur fossils that are strangely similar to their North American counterparts
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110726100010barnum-brown-pick.jpg)
Does “Mr. Bones” really deserve credit for inventing an essential field tool?
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110725092009allosaurus-bite-head-thumb.jpg)
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
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110722095009hadrosaur-skull-b.jpg)
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
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110721095006south-american-tracks-thumb.jpg)
South America’s First Dinosaur Tracks
Tracks now readily recognizable as belonging to dinosaurs were once attributed to prodigious birds and other creatures
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110720091007dinosaur-sculpture-crocosaurus.jpg)
Dinosaur Sighting: Crocosaurus
It looks more like an alligator doing a dinosaur impression, but there is something unmistakably dinosaurian about it
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110719100006t-rex-los-angeles.jpg)
Los Angeles’ New Dinosaur Hall
Buzz about the new displays, particularly a trio of Tyrannosaurus growth stages, has been growing for months
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110718094006dinosaur-egg-cocoon-470.jpg)
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
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110715083008brontosaurus-bottle-small.jpg)
Dinosaurs are famous for the gargantuan sizes some attained, and that’s why these minuscule skeleton sculptures are so charming
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110714091009allosaurus-size-chart.jpg)
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
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110713112008colorado-triceratops.jpg)
Dinosaur Sighting: Roadside Triceratops
The main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado is festooned with a number of goofy-looking dinosaurs
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110712095007stegosaurus-skull-fossil.jpg)
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
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110711102007dryptosaurus-claw1.jpg)
Dryptosaurus’ Surprising Hands
This enigmatic tyrannosauroid may have had the novel combination of short arms with big hands
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110708094008Kentrosaurus-Allosaurus.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110707085006triceratops-grill-truck.jpg)
Dinosaur Sighting: Grilled Triceratops
The town of Granger, Washington has a dinosaur sculpture park as well as dinosaurs adorning various vehicles around town
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110706095008raptorex.jpg)
Has a Tiny Tyrant Been Dethroned?
A 2009 discovery of a new tiny tyrant has been called into question by a recently released study
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110705084006stegosaurus-vernal1.jpg)
Dinosaur Diamond: Utah Field House of Natural History
The humor and use of specimens to highlight fossil mysteries make this dinosaur museum an essential stop
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110630094008terra-nova-slasher1.jpg)
Terra Nova Previews “Slasher” Dinosaur
Slasher is a turkey—give me Suchomimus, Acrocanthosaurus or Cryolophosaurus any day
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110629092007fiberglass-dinosaur.jpg)
Dinosaur Sighting: Bustin’ Out
To me, it looks like the dinosaur is trying to do a Kool-Aid Man impression: Oh Yeah!
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/20110628085007dinsoaur-national-monument-bones.jpg)
The site became a must-see dinosaur landmark in 1957, and in a few months, visitors will once again be able to see the spectacular quarry wall
Page 29 of 61