Dinosaurs

5 Questions: From Fossils in Rocks to Stadium Rock

Gregory Erickson studies the life cycles of dinosaurs and teaches concert-like classes. 06.02.2009

Birds May Have Used Big Brains to Outlast the Dinosaurs

The ancestors of modern birds seemed to have sophisticated hearing—and perhaps other sharp faculties, as well. 04.12.2009

57. Distinctive Dinosaur Death Throes

01.09.2008

10. T. Rex Time Machine

Iconoclast Mary Schweitzer isolates 68-million-year-old proteins and finally proves the kinship of dinosaurs and chickens. 12.12.2007

Death By Cosmic Pinball

Astronomers triangulate the source of the dinosaur destroyer. 12.03.2007

Found: Real-Life Version of Sesame Street's Big Bird

If, that is, Wes Craven had designed the character... 09.10.2007

Some Dinos May've Survived the Cataclysm

If mammals, birds, and lizards pulled through, why not some dinosaurs? 08.29.2007

Digging for Dinos In The Land Of Genghis Khan

Can a first-time dinosaur hunter make it through a dig in Mongolia? 08.16.2007

Did T. Rex Taste Like Chicken?

Protein and DNA analyses cement the dinosaur-bird link. 08.01.2007

Science Imitates (Comic Book) Art

Paleontologists adopt a technical term from The Far Side. 06.20.2007

The Bone Collector

A world-famous fossil hunter was also a philanderer, oilman, and spy. 03.27.2007

Move Over, T. Rex

Most dinos are still in the ground. 12.12.2006

CSI: Jurassic

It takes the eye of an osteopath to diagnose the afflictions and affections of the dinosaur world. 09.01.2006

How To Build A T.Rex

Place dinosaur bones in empty warehouse. Add sculptors and fossil glue. Assemble 05.28.2006

Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery

When this shy paleontologist found soft, fresh-looking tissue inside a T.rex femur, she erased a line between past and present. Then all hell broke loose 04.27.2006

How to Find a T. Rex

Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago, yet we have a pretty good idea of what these extinct animals looked like. 04.20.2006

The Year in Science: Paleontology

01.08.2006

The Paleontology of Footprints

Newly found track fossils offer clues about the life of T.rex and other behemoths 12.01.2005

Paleontology

New discoveries hint there's a lot more in fossil bones than we thought 10.24.2005

Raptor Repeat

Did dinos evolve flight twice? 10.14.2005

The Dragons of Liaoning

A trove of feathered dinosaurs and other astounding fossil finds in northern China shakes the roots of paleontology 06.05.2005

The Day Everything Died

The big knockdown fight in science these days is a debate about a cataclysm that occurred 250 million years ago 04.28.2005

Why do we have so many questions about the most successful animals that ever lived? 04.28.2005

Meet Mei long, The Sleeping Dragon

01.02.2005

There's Nothing Like A (Dinosaur) Mother's Love

12.03.2004

T. rex, Living Fast and Dying Young

09.25.2004

Godzilla vs. Mothra: The Prequel

08.30.2004

Discover Dialogue: Anthropologist Robert Martin

Did our primate ancestors make their debut during the age of the dinosaurs? 07.25.2004

Maybe Dinosaurs Needed Flea Collars, Too

06.08.2004

Tracking Dinosaur Family Values

03.16.2004

A Scatological Dinosaur Surprise

02.05.2004

Killer Cancer in the Cretaceous

11.03.2003

Dino Family Values

Were the relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex social creatures that stuck together with kin? If a maverick researcher is right, life in the Jurassic was one long, frightening picnic 06.01.2003

Ornithologist and Evolutionary Biologist Alan Feduccia—Plucking Apart the Dino-Birds

02.01.2003

Pterrible Ptruth about Pterosaurs

11.01.2002

What Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?

New studies suggest that dramatic climate changes were killing off behemoths even before the asteroid impact 06.01.2002

Secrets of Ancient Dinosaur Eggs

01.01.2002

The Meatless Shall Inherit the Earth

09.01.2001

The Creature From the Zuni Lagoon

A relentless dinosaur hunter unearths an entire ecosystem from the middle cretaceous period, not to mention some exotic new cousins of T. rex 08.01.2001

Works in Progress

The tricky art and science of interpreting CT scans of fossils 12.01.2000

What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like?

What Did Dinosaurs Really Look Like? 09.01.2000

Romancing the Bone

How an amateur fossil hound unearthed dinosaur remains in a most unlikely place and rocked the world of paleontology 06.01.2000

Bleak Lagoon Creatures

Araripe Lagoon was an unforgiving killer. It plucked its victims from the sky and sealed them in a briny grave 06.01.1999

Dino Hunter

Phil Currie's vision of tyrannosaurs is horrifying: Packs of monsters that stayed together to slay together 05.01.1999

Dino Hunter

Phil Currie's vision of tyrannosaurs is horrifying: Packs of monsters that stayed together to slay together 05.01.1999

04.01.1999

Evolution Watch: A Sickle in the Clouds

A 70-million-year-old fossil bird recently found in Madagascar may just clinch the argument that birds descended from two-legged dinosaurs. 06.01.1998

A Sickle in the Clouds

A 70-million-year-old fossil bird recently found in Madagascar may just clinch the argument that birds descended from two-legged dinosaurs. 06.01.1998

Evolution Watch: King Claw

Ninety million years ago in what is now Argentina, a terrible predator hunted some of the biggest animals ever to walk on land. Meet Megaraptor. 04.01.1998

Through the icy depths of Lake Champlain glides a mysterious beast, affectionately known as Champ. maybe it's a plesiosaur left over from the age of the dinosaurs. or maybe it's just a very peculiar water wave. 04.01.1998

The Year in Science: Evolution 1997

Tyrannosaurus Agonistes 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Evolution 1997

Theropod in Progress 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Evolution 1997

Cretaceous Pompeii 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Evolution 1997

Ancient History 01.01.1998

Pompadourosaur?

11.01.1997

Dinosaurs in Motion

Computer scientists and paleontologists are joining forces to get the very largest of Earth's extinct giants moving again, this time the right way. 11.01.1997

Bony Ballast

10.01.1997

Dinos for Dinner

07.01.1997

Terror, Take Two

After the swift bipedal dinosaurs went extinct, the world never saw their like again--until a giant killer bird, sporting arms instead of wings, raced onto the stage. 06.01.1997