Stories from Riley Black
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Dinosaur Classics: Leidy’s Dinosaur Inventory
Contrary to a snarky review, this monograph is one of the most important works ever published in the history of vertebrate paleontology
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If you like Westerns but wonder what it would be like to replace cattle with Triceratops and horses with Tyrannosaurs, give this book a look
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This short film is about dueling towns—on the backs of enormous dinosaurs
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Dinosaur Sighting: Delicious Dinosaurs
Since I moved out West, I have been seeing dinosaurs everywhere
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The Giant Squid: Dragon of the Deep
After over 150 years since it was first sighted by the HMS Daedalus, the mysterious creature still eludes scientists
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See a gallery of images from a monument to a time when naturalists were only just beginning to understand prehistoric creatures
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Before the first shot of this fan-made dinosaur flick, a warning flashes on the screen: “Remember. We were young.”
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Peloroplites: That’s One Big Ankylosaur
The “monstrous heavy one” was stout, armored and may have supported huge spikes on its neck and shoulders
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At zoos all over the country, animatronic dinosaur exhibits featuring menageries of jerking, growling dinosaurs have made a comeback
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Dinosaur Sighting: Tyrant King of the Crustaceans
Have you seen a prehistoric creature in an unusual place? Send us a photo
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Jack Horner Explains How to Build a Dinosaur
By fiddling with the genetic toggles of birds, scientists might be able to reverse-engineer a dinosaurian creature
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Hidden Dinosaurs and Confusing Teeth
After many false starts, scientists finally understood the first fossils of horned dinosaurs
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Paleontologists have recently learned how these three-horned dinosaurs fought, grew up and socialized
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Waking the T. Rex Brings Sue to Life
The film showcases some of the new techniques paleontologists are using to investigate dinosaur lives
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Dinosaur Diamond: Following an Injured Allosaurus
A fresh coating of dried mud gave the 150-million-year-old tracks a more recent look, as if dinosaurs had walked by just last week
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Was Spinosaurus a Bison-Backed Dinosaur?
Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus were fundamentally different, and they remain among the most bizarre dinosaurs yet discovered
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Should Mamenchisaurus go by the nickname Neckita? Mei Mei? Tiny? Vote now
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Dinosaur Diamond: Moab’s Potash Road
The area is piled high with sedimentary rock from the heyday of the dinosaurs. At a few spots, it’s easy to see the animals’ tracks
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Two Views on How to Make a Baby Sauropod
It took a long time—and a new understanding of sauropod lifestyles—to figure out whether they laid eggs or gave birth to live young
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When Triceratops Was a Giant Bison
The giant with the “three-horned face” was originally mistaken for a very different creature
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