Dinosaurs

Scientists found dozens of fossils of the marine reptile, measuring up to five meters long, as the melting glacier exposed new rock faces

The following project constitutes a half-hour activity for 3-, 4-, or 5-year olds. It includes the entire process from finding fossils to putting the recovered pieces together like a puzzle to drawing our best guess at what it looked like in life.

If you appreciate John J. Audubon’s exacting detail and beautiful compositions and you marvel at the encyclopedic knowledge and delicate illustrations in the famous Sibley Bird Guides you may be interested to know that there are many contemporary masters following in their footsteps today.

A maverick aristocrat's ideas about dinosaur evolution turn out to have been decades ahead of their time

"Pinocchio rex" roamed southern China just before the extinction of the dinosaurs

Computer models suggest that plant-eating dinosaurs called therizinosaurs used their claws for digging, grasping or piercing plants

Bite marks on fossils coupled with an analysis of skull strength suggests that crocodilians were capable of using "death rolls" to dismember prey

The long-necked dinosaurs known as sauropods, once seen as icons of extinction, thrived for millions of years around the world

Paleontologists brave wildfires, parasites and scorching temperatures in search of ancient mammal fossils

Mongolia's Gobi Desert contains one of the richest assemblages of dinosaur remains ever found. Paleontologists are uncovering much of the region's history

By analyzing previously overlooked fossils and by taking a second look at some old finds, paleontologists are providing the first glimpses of the actual behavior of the tyrannosaurs