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Dinosaurs

Terra Nova's dopey Carnotaurus. Despite being sold as a prehistoric extravaganza, the show never really delivered on the promise of fantastic dinosaurs.

Time for Terra Nova to Evolve or Go Extinct

The dinosaur-haunted drama has been cancelled. But could—and should—the show live on?

The chest cavity of Velociraptor MPC-D100/54. The white arrow indicates a broken rib, and the black arrows point to pterosaur bones preserved inside the dinosaur's skeleton.

A Dinosaur’s Pterosaur Lunch

Styracosaurus at the American Museum of Natural History

The Last Styracosaurus Standing

Within just a few years, three species of Styracosaurus were cut down to just one

Triceratops (left) and Torosaurus (right)

The Torosaurus Identity Crisis Continues

Was Torosaurus really just a grown-up Triceratops? A new paper says “no”

Possible postures of Triceratops

Did Triceratops Slouch or Stand Tall?

A new study investigates whether old “three-horned face” held its forelimbs straight down like other dinosaurs or waddled around with its elbows out

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Jetpacks and Dinosaurs

Orion: Dino Beatdown is another run-and-gun dinosaur shooter, with a little extra hardware to help gamers jump around the battlefield

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Dinosaur Robots Return with a Vengeance

A new concept album by MJ Hibbett & The Validators envisions an invasion of alien cyborg dinosaurs

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How to Make Sense of Dinosaur Variation

Paleontologist Jordan Mallon describes how he figured out how many Anchiceratops species actually existed

The known skeleton of Juratyrant (black outline) compared to the dinosaur Guanlong for size. The scale bar is one meter.

England’s Jurassic Tyrant

Meet the mysterious small predators that set the stage for the later rise of more imposing tyrants

A polka-dot Triceratops in Jordan, Montana

Dinosaur Sighting: Polka-Dot Triceratops

This week we meet a dinosaur that looks as if a clown exploded all over it

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Whose Tooth is That?

Smithsonian paleontologist Matthew Carrano explains how to identify dinosaurs from isolated teeth

A silhouette of the dinosaur Nemegtomaia barsboldi, indicating the dinosaur's bones and the nest it was sitting on. Much of the skeleton was lost to beetles.

When Beetles Ate Dinosaurs

Even the world’s most formidable consumers eventually became food themselves

A very wrinkly dinosaur outside California's Jurupa Mountains Discovery Center

Dinosaur Sighting: Wrinkles

A reader spots what may be the wrinkliest dinosaur of all time

A restoration of Lambeosaurus magnicristatus, a dinosaur once thought to represent the male form of Lambeosaurus lambei, but now known to be a distinct species.

Intimate Secrets of Dinosaur Lives

Scientists are searching for dinosaur sex differences in features like size, ornamentation and bone structure—not the bits actually used during mating

Did sexual selection cause sauropods, such as this Barosaurus at the Natural History Museum of Utah, to evolve ludicrously long necks?

Sex and Dinosaur Necks

Did competition for mates drive the evolution of the enormous, long-necked sauropods?

The backside of Diplodocus, photographed at the Utah Field House of Natural History

How Did the Biggest Dinosaurs Get it On?

Of all the dinosaur mysteries, how dinosaurs like the 23-ton Apatosaurus mated is one of the most perplexing

A restoration of Hypselosaurus, a sauropod dinosaur which may have laid some of the eggs found in Cretaceous rock of Southern France.

Who Was the First to Discover Dinosaur Eggs?

Despite an immense wave of publicity heralding the discovery of dinosaur eggs in 1923, French paleontologists had discovered them decades earlier

A restoration of Saurolophus angustirostris based upon skeletal and soft-tissue fossils

Judging a Dinosaur By its Cover

A new study suggests that you can distinguish different hadrosaur species by their pebbly hides alone

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Dinosaur Deep Freeze

An animated short suggests dinosaurs died out for want of winter coats

A reconstruction of Velociraptor, complete with a scleral ring in the eye, at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, WY.

The Debate Over Dinosaur Sight

Did Velociraptor hunt under the cover of darkness?

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