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Dinosaur, Colorado's Triceratops

Dinosaur Sighting: Roadside Triceratops

The main drag of Dinosaur, Colorado is festooned with a number of goofy-looking dinosaurs

After an hour or two of searching, Scott Wing and his team found a spot to set up camp.

Wyoming Dispatch #2: The Scene at Field Camp

Before digging, the paleobiologists must go through the arduous process of setting up camp

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Wyoming Paleontology Dispatch #1: Why 56 Million Years Ago?

What did the earth look like during the Paleocene Epoch? A Smithsonian researcher investigates

The skull of Stegoceras

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

The formidable hand claw of Dryptosaurus

Dryptosaurus’ Surprising Hands

This enigmatic tyrannosauroid may have had the novel combination of short arms with big hands

Ask Your Questions about Fossilized Colors

Just a quick note that Science magazine’s website is running a live chat this afternoon at 3:00 about new techniques to reveal color in fossils

A Triceratops grill cover as seen in Granger, Washington

Dinosaur Sighting: Grilled Triceratops

The town of Granger, Washington has a dinosaur sculpture park as well as dinosaurs adorning various vehicles around town

A restoration of Raptorex by Nobu Tamura

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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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

Plastic dinosaur toys

Blog Carnival #33: Plastic Toys, Foiling a Poacher, Honored Musicians

This month’s blog carnival highlights one blogger’s old toys, an odd street intersection, why sketchbooks still matter and more

A teaser poster for Terra Nova shows off an imaginary dinosaur called the "Slasher."

Terra Nova Previews “Slasher” Dinosaur

Slasher is a turkey—give me Suchomimus, Acrocanthosaurus or Cryolophosaurus any day

A Tyrannosaurus busting out of a fiberglass shop near Hindsville, Arkansas

Dinosaur Sighting: Bustin’ Out

To me, it looks like the dinosaur is trying to do a Kool-Aid Man impression: Oh Yeah!

A view of the Dinosaur National Monument quarry before it closed for renovations in 2006

A Visit to Douglass’ Dinosaur

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

Part of Plate XII from Leidy's Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States, showing some vertebrae from Hadrosaurus.

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

Rex Riders, by J.P. Carlson

Riding With Rex

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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Dinosaur Battle Town

This short film is about dueling towns—on the backs of enormous dinosaurs

Chocosaurs at Hatch Family Chocolates

Dinosaur Sighting: Delicious Dinosaurs

Since I moved out West, I have been seeing dinosaurs everywhere

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A Visit to Dinosaur Court

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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Jurassic Park Meets Birdemic?

Before the first shot of this fan-made dinosaur flick, a warning flashes on the screen: “Remember. We were young.”

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