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Dinosaurs

Human foot for scale

Holyoke, Massachusetts

Dinosaur Footprints of Holyoke

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur.

Midland, South Dakota

Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Dinosaur tracks!

Sunland Park Dinosaur Tracks

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Pterosaurs probably didn't have their legs out like this.

We Have Probably Been Imagining Pterosaurs All Wrong

New research suggests we've misunderstood the legs of these prehistoric flyers.

Cara Giaimo May 24, 2018

Triceratops.

Port Orange, Florida

Bongoland Ruins

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The Old Trail Museum's exterior.

Choteau, Montana

Old Trail Museum

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

Permanently Closed

Close up of the T-Rex head from the left.

Huntsville, Alabama

K’REX

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

SUE watches as a couple of mammals prepare for some foot removal.

SUE the T. Rex Is Moving

We interviewed everyone's favorite murderbird about their new digs.

Cara Giaimo February 6, 2018

Two Ankylosaurus come to blows.

Why More Animals Don't Use Their Tails as Weapons

By wielding their built-in defenses, some prehistoric creatures thwacked enemies hard enough to crack bone.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 18, 2018

<em>Caihong juji</em> was a study in contrasts.

How We Know That This Dinosaur Had Bright, Audacious Plumage

Microscopic structures hint at an iridescent past.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 15, 2018

Yum?

Found: A New Species of Lizard in a Dinosaur's Stomach

A prehistoric snack is now thought to be a previously unknown species.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 3, 2018

Dinosaur footprint at Valley of the Dinosaurs

Valley of the Dinosaurs

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.

The amber-trapped prehistoric parasites with an extant tick measuring 0.2 inches.

Found: 99-Million-Year-Old Ticks Trapped in Amber

One of them was entangled with a dinosaur feather.

Vittoria Traverso December 13, 2017

One of Edward Hitchcock's ambrotype sketches of dinosaur footprints from his 1858 book, <em>Ichnology of New England</em>.

The First Scientist to Study Dinosaur Footprints Thought Giant Birds Made Them

Edward Hitchcock clung to his theory, even when paleontologists said it didn’t fly.

John Meszaros December 12, 2017

Dino tracks.

Dinosaur Tracks at Government Canyon

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

The One-Minute Life Stories of Some Fascinating Extinct Species

What looking at animals from the past can tell us about our world now.

Ashawnta Jackson December 8, 2017

A reconstruction of <em>Halszkaraptor escuilliei</em>, an amphibious dinosaur discovered in Mongolia.

Found: A Dinosaur With Features Borrowed From Swans, Penguins, and Crocs

It's so unique that paleontologists initially doubted its authenticity.

Vittoria Traverso December 7, 2017

The dinosaur models were huge tourist attractions.

The Dinner That Kicked Off the First Dinosaur Craze

One of the world's first life-size dinosaur models was the venue.

Anne Ewbank November 6, 2017