Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they ...
“It’s easy to get me excited about anything related to fossils,” says Amy Atwater. That’s a pretty good quality to have when you’re the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison – and ...
A survey of prehistoric bones reveals that T. rex and some of its cousins had more than one way to reach enormous sizes. Evolution may have preserved that variation in modern animals too.
While examining dinosaur fossils for a school project a few years ago, Kyle Atkins-Weltman noticed a few irregularities. He set out to study bones that were believed to belong to an Anzu wyliei, a ...
There has only been one dinosaur fossil found in Washington state, and it’s Kelly Milner Halls’ mission to tell you all about it. In her latest book, “A Dinosaur for Washington,” Halls takes readers ...
An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...
Even for people of advanced years (like me), the past can seem slippery and far away. For the very young — who have so little past to reckon with — it’s an even more difficult thing to grasp. Last ...