Skip to main content

Subscribe to Smithsonian magazine and get a FREE tote.

Fossils

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 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

The nearly-complete hindlimb of the armored dinosaur Peloroplites on display at the CEU Prehistoric Museum.

Peloroplites: That’s One Big Ankylosaur

The “monstrous heavy one” was stout, armored and may have supported huge spikes on its neck and shoulders

None

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

A skeleton of the Late Triassic ichthyosaur Shastasaurus liangae.

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

None

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

Paleontologist Philip Currie poses with a tyrannosaur skull.

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

None

Tiny Tarbosaurus Shows How Tyrants Grew Up

The new Tarbosaurus juvenile is a truly remarkable specimen

Page 48 of 62