I still remember the first time watching Jurassic Park as a kid. Watching the raptors leaping on to their prey, hooking and…

Last week, a new species of dinosaur was described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The dinosaur, Arkansaurus fridayi, is an ornithomimosaur…

We all chew, but hardly ever think about it. Even a moment’s consideration, though, reveals how complex of a process it actually…

In living animals, it’s pretty easy to tell if one is a male or a female. You look at their, er, dangly…

There are more than 11,000 species of bird living on Earth today. If you recognise that birds are living dinosaurs, which overwhelming…

Tetrapod is the name given to any vertebrate animal with four (tetra) legs (pod). There are more than 30,000 living species of…

The use of open access publishing in dinosaur paleontology has seen great growth over the past few years, particularly for newly named…

Gigantic skeletons of dinosaurs often draw the biggest crowds at museums, but the elusive remains of baby dinosaurs are breathtaking in their…

Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in…

Pretty much every person who ever read a dinosaur book or went to a natural history museum learned that Brontosaurus is just an…

In my previous post, I introduced Aquilops, a new little dinosaur from ancient Montana, and talked about some of the science behind establishing…

Today, several colleagues and I named a really cute little dinosaur—Aquilops americanus. At around 106 million years old, Aquilops turns out to be…