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This Illinois Boy Found a Fossil in His Own Yard, Now He Holds a Guinness Record for His Own Downtown Museum

By Terrina Jairaj Aug 21st
Thai Researchers Digging in a Local Fossil Site Just Uncovered a Dinosaur With a Neck Length That Defied Every Expectation

By Terrina Jairaj Jul 13th
Kansas Boy on a School Field Trip Spots Something Protruding From a Quarry, and It Turns Out to Be a Prehistoric Monster

By Terrina Jairaj Jun 18th
Paleontologists Just Identified New Four-Winged Predators That Dominated the Canopy and Forced Ancient Birds to Fear the Trees

By Terrina Jairaj Jun 8th
Scientists May Have Found The Biggest Dinosaur in Europe in Some Poor Dude’s Backyard

By Julia Glassman Aug 31st
Porgs and Dinos and Monkeydactyls OH MY!

By Jessica Mason Apr 19th
New Fossil Discovery Changes What We Know About the Mighty Titanosaurs

By Jessica Mason Mar 3rd
Scientist Finds Feathered Dinosaur Tail Trapped in Amber, Ruining All Jurassic Park Movies in the Best Way

By Dan Van Winkle Dec 8th
Childhood Validated: New Study Says Brontosaurus Existed After All

By Dan Van Winkle Apr 7th
Hold Onto Your Blunts: New Study Shows Dinosaurs May Have Gotten High on Psychedelic Fungus

By Carolyn Cox Feb 11th
New Study Says Ancient, Bull-Sized Relative of the Guinea Pig Used its Buckteeth As Weapons of War

By Carolyn Cox Feb 4th
Tiny Child Paleontologist Knows More About Dinosaurs Than You and Shares His Wisdom

By Dan Van Winkle Dec 24th
ThinkGeek Is Selling Dinosaur Bone Fragments and the Vertebrate Paleontology Community Is Maaaaad

By Victoria McNally Nov 1st
New Study Closes the Evolutionary Gap Between Dinosaurs and Birds

By Dan Van Winkle Sep 26th
The Amazing Scientific Achievements of the Woman Who Kickstarted Paleontology

By Dan Van Winkle Sep 16th
Today In “Your Dad Naming Things,” Extinct Swamp Beast With Sensual Lips Named After Mick Jagger

By Carolyn Cox Sep 10th
Let Some Precocious Kids Teach You How To Pronounce Pterosaur Names

By Carolyn Cox Sep 2nd
Paleontologists Announce Discovery of “Pinocchio Rex”

By Carolyn Cox May 7th
Meet The Eleven-Foot “Chicken From Hell”

By Carolyn Cox Mar 20th
“Tiny” T-Rex Discovered In the Arctic

By Carolyn Cox Mar 13th