Maryland’s New Dinosaur Park
A sculpture of an Acrocanthosaurus attacking a sauropod dinosaur at the Maryland Science Center. From Flickr user Jeff Kubina. Documentaries often show scientists digging for dinosaurs in places like...
View ArticleHunting Dinosaurs in Montana
A toe bone from a Tyrannosaurus collected by NJSM paleontologists near Billings, Montana. I hope to find more of this dinosaur in the field this week. Over the past few years, most of what I have...
View ArticleWyoming Workshop Offers Teachers a Week With Dinosaurs
The fossil-rich landscape of Wyoming's Bighorn Basin. Photo by author. For six days this coming July, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History paleontologist Michael Brett-Surman will be leading...
View ArticleDinosaur Diamond: Moab’s Potash Road
Tracks made by a medium-sized theropod on a slab of rock just outside of Moab, Utah. Photo by author. Two years ago, I visited the American West for the first time. I was immediately hooked. Seeing the...
View ArticleDinosaur Diamond: Following an Injured Allosaurus
One of the Copper Ridge theropod tracks. The front of the foot - indicated by the three toe impressions - is towards the top of the picture. Photo by author. Even when you know what to look for,...
View ArticleDinosaur Sighting: Crocosaurus
A roadside dinosaur in Jensen, Utah. Photo by author. While driving along Interstate 40 toward eastern Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument, you can’t miss the roadside dinosaurs. They’re all over the...
View ArticleVandals Smash Irreplaceable Dinosaur
The skull of Edmontosaurus, a Cretaceous hadrosaur from North America. The vandalized dinosaur wasn’t an Edmontosaurus, but belonged to the same evolutionary group. Photo from Ballista, image from...
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