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Legume leaf fossil

Without dinosaurs, there’d be no Thanksgiving dinner

Illustration of a pack of Nanotyrannus brazenly attacking a juvenile T. rex

This tiny T. rex is actually a new species

Mummy of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens with fossil preparator Tyler Keillor of the University of Chicago. The dinosaur mummy nicknamed “Ed Jr.,” was covered by floodwaters some 66 million years ago, preserving its fossilized skeleton and, in a thin clay layer, large areas of scaly, wrinkled skin and a tall fleshy crest over its back.

Dinosaur ‘mummies’ prove some dinos had hooves

an illustration of a marine reptile swimming amongst fish

Jurassic ‘sword dragon’ uncovered in England

By Laura Baisas

a tyrannosaur skeleton on display in a musuem

Amateur paleontologist opens fossil museum in rural Minnesota

By Sara Kiley Watson

Illustration of Joaquinraptor dinosaur with crocodile leg in its mouth

2,000-pound megaraptor died while snacking on a crocodile

Illustration of baby pterosaur in a tropical storm at night

Baby pterosaur skeletons reveal a tragic demise

Illustration of Spicomellus dinosaur

Stubby dinosaur took spikey armor to the extreme

Artist's illustration of Istiorachis macarthurae on a sandy beach

Retired doctor discovers new dinosaur species deep in a museum archive

a dire wolf skull. it has large front teeth

Dire wolf skull could fetch over $30,000 at auction

By Laura Baisas

Artist illustration of two plesionectes longicollum plesiosaurs swimming in ocean near aquatic vegetation

Paleontologists discover ‘unusual’ long-necked plesiosaur in Germany

A herd of ceratopsians (Styracosaurus albertensis) accompanied by an ankylosaur (Euplocephalus tutus) walk through an old river channel under the watchful eyes of two tyrannosaurs (Gorgosaurus libratus). Artwork by Julius Csotonyi.

Dinosaurs roamed in multi-species herds, fossilized footprints show

an illustration of a marine reptile with large fins and a beak swimming by several squid and one shark

Ichthyosaurs were silent assassins of Jurassic seas

By Lauren Leffer

Image of a plant-eating ornithopod dinosaur, Thescelosaurus during the latest Cretaceous Period, nearly 67 million years ago. These around 10-12 foot long two-legged animals roamed the tropical swamps, forests and floodplains where Denver now stands. Their vertebrae are similar to the one found in the rock core deep below the Museum.

Denver museum finds dinosaur bone under its parking lot

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants, and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. The newly described pterosaur Eotephradactylus mcintireae is seen eating an ancient ray-finned fish alongside an early species of turtle and an early frog species, with the skeleton of an armored crocodile relative lying on the ground and a palm-like plant growing in the background.

North American pterosaur could sit on your shoulder

By Laura Baisas

an illustration showing several dinosaur species walking in a line

A dinosaur ‘tombstone’ lurks underneath New Jersey

By Laura Baisas

illustration of a large lizard with a bulging head carrying a large egg

Bones of a raccoon-sized prehistoric lizard sat in a jar for 20 years

By Laura Baisas

Artist_impression_of_sarupod

Paleontologists dig through fossilized dino guts to see what’s inside

By Laura Baisas

Well-preserved dinosaur skull belongs to new sauropod species

an illustration of a long marine reptile with large teeth eating a shelled animal

‘Very odd’ 40-foot-long marine reptile stalked prehistoric Canada

By Laura Baisas

The Chicago Archaeopteryx, under UV light to expose soft tissues.

Feathered fossil shows famed dinosaur could fly (like a chicken)

Illustration of mosasaur chasing prey underwater

Geologists accidentally found a monstrous mosasaur fossil in Mississippi mud

Close up of hand excavating ancient amphibian fossil

Ancient alligator-sized amphibians died under mysterious circumstances

Compilation of Guthman Music Competition participants

Electromagnetic fields and dinosaur choir win international instrument contest

An undated handout photo released by the University of Queensland shows an image of the boulder using 3D imaging and light filters showing the dinosaur footprints.

Dinosaur footprints unknowingly displayed in a high school for 20 years

An illustration of the titanosaur Chadititan calvoi and the other Cretaceous Period organisms it lived with.

New 22-foot-long titanosaur discovered in Argentina

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of the landscape of Cretaceous Australia. The mega raptor is standing on the right river bank and Carcharodontosaurus is on the left.

A 20-foot-long ‘mega raptor’ once stalked Australia

By Laura Baisas

Plesiosaur skeleton

Paleontologists solve decades’ old mystery about plesiosaur skin texture

an illustration of two long-beaked birds diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with circular ammonites and long plesiosaurs for company.

After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a small dinosaur with its tail in their air

Where in the world are Earth’s oldest dinosaurs?

By Laura Baisas

Lamborghini Miura junkyard auction car

10 of the year’s most interesting auctions: Dinosaurs, coins, and Einstein’s love letters

An illustration of an Early Cretaceous floodplain in southeastern England, 135 million years ago: a spinosaur (center) takes over the carcass of an ornithopod, much to the annoyance of the smaller tyrannosaurs (left) and dromaeosaurids (bottom right).

Retired quarryman uncovers fossilized tyrannosaur teeth

By Laura Baisas

a long piece of fossilized dinosaur poop on the ground

200-million-year-old dinosaur poop and vomit reveal a lost Jurassic world

By Laura Baisas

the skeleton of a Parasaurolophus dinosaur. it has a wave like crest at the top of its skull

A 3D-printed duck-billed dinosaur’s skull could help us learn what it sounded like

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of two Skiphosoura bavarica in flight.

New pterosaur species sliced through the air with a sword-like tail

By Laura Baisas

Two perfectly articulated skeletons of the sheep-size dinosaur Psittacosaurus, found in China's Yixian Formation. New research suggests they died in burrow collapses, not via volcanism, as previously thought.

Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways

By Mack DeGeurin

Illustration of a terror bird standing by river

Meat-eating terror birds could grow up to 12 feet tall

smallest dinosaur egg fossil

These are the smallest fossilized dinosaur eggs ever found

a musuem exhibit with a dinosaur skeleton. a picture of actor jeff goldblum saying "that is a one big pile of poop" is in the lower left.

The Poozeum: Fossilized bug farts, T. rex poop, and more ancient coprolites

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large hawk-like bird carrying a long tailed rodent in its claws

With fearsome feet, hawk-sized Cretaceous birds could scoop up baby dinos

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a pterosaur with a short tail walking with legs and its wings on the ground

The first true flying vertebrates walked before they could soar

By Laura Baisas

a pterosaur speices flaps its wings to fly, while another uses them to soar

‘Remarkable’ fossils offer clues to perplexing pterosaur question

By Laura Baisas

Illustration of Sasayamagnomus saegusai

Tiny triceratops ancestor named after gnomes

the footprint of a three-toed dinosaur embedded in stone in brazil

Dinosaur footprints from Africa and South America are a match

By Laura Baisas

Artist impression of a large asteroid impacting on Earth such as the Chicxulub event that caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago. The illustration shows an asteroid impacting at Chicxulub. Shown in the background are planet Mars and asteroid bodies.

Dinosaur-killing asteroid likely came from deep space beyond Jupiter

Illustration of Enalioetes head

This ancient crocodile looked kind of like a dolphin

Asiatyrannus xui skull close up

‘Deep-snouted’ tyrannosaur fossils uncovered at construction site

Close up of stegosaurus skeleton

Stegosaurus ‘Apex’ sold for nearly $45 million to a billionaire

An illustration of newly discovered crocodile relative named Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis on the coast of an ancient ocean called Panthalassa.

Say hello to the surprising crocodile relative Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis

By Laura Baisas

green and red grapes

If dinosaurs hadn’t gone extinct, we may not have delicious grapes

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a gold griffin with the body of a lion and the head of a bird of prey

We’re (probably) wrong about origin of griffins

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of three long-necked and marine reptiles swimming with four paddle shaped limbs in an ancient sea

This giant polar reptile once stalked an ancient super-ocean

By Laura Baisas

Haliskia peterseni

New species of flying dinosaur found in Australia

fossilized leg bones in reddish-brown sediment

New horse-sized dinosaur species discovered in Zimbabwe

By Laura Baisas

A fossilized dinosaur skin specimen under natural light (upper half) and ultraviolet light (lower half) showing the orange-yellow fluorescence of the fossil skin.

Rare skin fossil sheds new light on dinosaur feathers

By Laura Baisas

a scan of a t. rex skull, with is brain colored in

T. rex was probably about as intelligent as a crocodile

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a large marine reptile beached on the sand, surrounded by two two-legged dinosaurs and several flying dinosaurs

New species of extinct marine reptile found with help from 11-year-old child

By Laura Baisas

An artist's illustration of Dinocephalosaurus orientalis with a long neck and sharp teeth swimming alongside prehistoric fish.

240-million-year-old ‘Chinese dragon’ fossil reveals 32 separate neck vertebrae

By Laura Baisas

An artist’s illustration of the new pterosaur species Ceoptera evansae. Several of the winged reptiles fly over trees and grass in Jurassic-era Scotland.

New pterosaur species discovered in Scotland

By Laura Baisas

The Wakayama Soryu was about the size of a great white shark and lived more than 72 million years ago.

This ‘blue dragon’ sliced through the ancient Pacific with paddle-like fins

By Laura Baisas

An illustration of a tall two-legged dinosaur called Gorgosaurus libratus eating a small bird-like dinosaur called Citipes elegans. The smaller dinosaur's legs are still visible as the Gorgosaurus swallows the Citipes.

This teenage tyrannosaur had a stomach full of dino drumsticks

By Laura Baisas

Paleontologist Martin Lockley sits in front of a rock with dinosaur claw marks and shows how dinosaurs must have clawed into the rock during a mating ceremony where they made pseudo nests for potential mates.

Why dinosaur footprints inspired paleontologist Martin Lockley

By Laura Baisas

Illustration in green, yellow, orange, and purple of big sauropod dinosaurs lifting weights in front of a prehistoric landscape

The mystery of why some dinosaurs got so enormous

Photograph of the skeletal mount of an Allosaurus specimen (AMNH 5753), from William Diller Matthew's 1915 book “Dinosaurs.”

When a Jurassic giant died, predatory dinos probably feasted on the carcass

By Laura Baisas