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Dinosaurs

The search yields bones believed to be from a sauropod, a suborder of dinosaurs

Dinosaur Dispatch: Days 9, 10 and 11

A new site and more digging yields a dinosaur discovery

A view of the outcrop

Dinosaur Dispatch: Day 14

The paleontology team bids a fond farewell to Wyoming’s Big Basin

Brontosaurus skeleton sketch

Where Dinosaurs Roamed

Footprints at one of the nation’s oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived

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The Strange Lives of Polar Dinosaurs

How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?

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Taking a Dinosaur’s Temperature

Polar species heat up one of paleontology’s great debates

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Bones to Pick

Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic

Montana

Wanted!

Our fossil collection is already the world’s largest. But we’re in search of a complete T. rex

A tiny blob of stretchy brown matter, soft tissue from inside the leg bone, suggests the specimen had not completely decomposed.

Dinosaur Shocker

Probing a 68-million-year-old T. rex, Mary Schweitzer stumbled upon astonishing signs of life that may radically change our view of the ancient beasts

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Head’s Up

From a computer-generated model, sculptors cast a bronze triceratops that Looks like the real thing

Samples of rock from Chicxulub Crater

A Tale of Two Rocks

Retrieved from a mile beneath the earth’s surface 65 million years after their creation, they bear witness to a cataclysm - and the death of the dinosaurs

Tyrannosaurus rex

Digging for Dinosaur Gold

A complicated battle over one fossil Tyrannosaurus rex—and the high-stakes auction of another—raises a big question: Who gets to own the bones?

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