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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
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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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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
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Dryptosaurus’ Surprising Hands
This enigmatic tyrannosauroid may have had the novel combination of short arms with big hands
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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Tiny Tarbosaurus Shows How Tyrants Grew Up
The new Tarbosaurus juvenile is a truly remarkable specimen
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