Dinosaurs

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

June 13, 2011

Hidden Dinosaurs and Confusing Teeth

After many false starts, scientists finally understood the first fossils of horned dinosaurs

June 10, 2011

Triceratops: An A+ Dinosaur

Paleontologists have recently learned how these three-horned dinosaurs fought, grew up and socialized

June 9, 2011

Waking the T. Rex Brings Sue to Life

The film showcases some of the new techniques paleontologists are using to investigate dinosaur lives

June 8, 2011

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

June 7, 2011

Was Spinosaurus a Bison-Backed Dinosaur?

Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus were fundamentally different, and they remain among the most bizarre dinosaurs yet discovered

June 6, 2011

Name a Giant Dinosaur

Should Mamenchisaurus go by the nickname Neckita? Mei Mei? Tiny? Vote now

June 3, 2011

Blog Carnival #32: Scientist Stereotypes, Sauropod Necks, Dinosaur Facts and More

The best of what’s being written about dinosaurs in the blogosphere

June 2, 2011

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

June 1, 2011

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

May 31, 2011

When Triceratops Was a Giant Bison

The giant with the “three-horned face” was originally mistaken for a very different creature

May 27, 2011

Pen and Ink Dinosaurs: Tommysaurus Rex

Tyrannosaurus rex is the antithesis of everything a good pet should be. “Literally awful and almost certainly needing a special insurance policy” to keep

May 26, 2011

Slurp! The Marine Reptile Shastasaurus Was a Suction Feeder

Thanks to new specimens found in China, paleontologists have discovered that Shastasaurus ate very much like a beaked whale does today

May 25, 2011

One Dinosaur Too Many?

Are there too many dinosaurs? Paleontologist Jack Horner thinks so, and he explained his reasoning in a short TED talk last month

May 24, 2011

Dinosaur Sighting: Spinosaurus Scoop

Spinosaurus may not be as popular as Tyrannosaurus, but sculptures and models of the sail-backed predatory dinosaur are common along America’s roadsides

May 23, 2011

Dinosaur Skin Scraps Are a Jurassic Mystery

May 20, 2011

Tarbosaurus Gangs: What Do We Know?

The proposal of pack-hunting dinosaurs is old news in paleontological circles, and the evidence to support the claims about Tarbosaurus hasnt been released

May 19, 2011

Boneheads: A Paleontological Mid-Life Crisis

May 18, 2011

The Diplodocus Tripod

May 17, 2011

Tiny Tarbosaurus Shows How Tyrants Grew Up

The new Tarbosaurus juvenile is a truly remarkable specimen

May 16, 2011