DINOSAURS

How Long Does Something Have to Be In the Ground Before It's Considered a Fossil?

It depends on who you ask.

Jurassic Park Is Returning to Theaters for Three Nights Only for Its 25th Anniversary

The special screenings will include a 17-minute fan remake of the film.

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After 20 Years, the Largest Dinosaur Foot Ever Discovered Has Been Identified

The foot spans 3 feet across.

Chris Pratt meets the vicious T. rex in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

16 Prehistoric Creatures You’ll See In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

The newest 'Jurassic Park' film ups the ante with a huge roster of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles.

Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. and Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC.

What Would It Cost to Operate a Real Jurassic Park?

Bringing dinosaurs back from extinction gets expensive.

18 Things to Look for the Next Time You Watch Jurassic Park

Twenty-five years ago, director Steven Spielberg created a movie that was 65 million years in the making.

Dinosaurs Had Dandruff Problems, Too

How embarrassing.

Why Are There No More Dinosaurs?

Scientists think a terrible event killed most of the dinosaurs off. But some remain—and they fly.

Prehistoric Ticks Once Drank Dinosaur Blood, Fossil Evidence Shows

This is the first direct evidence that the pesky arachnids once dined on feathered dinosaurs.

Lead author Karen Chin of the University of Colorado Boulder

Fossilized Poop Shows Some Herbivorous Dinosaurs Loved a Good Crab Dinner

What were thought to be exclusively plant-eating dinosaurs also sometimes munched on prehistoric crabs, a new study suggests.

What It’s Like to Write an Opera About Dinosaurs

The American Museum of Natural History’s newest offering is a roving opera inside the institution’s famous dinosaur wing.

Construction Workers in Colorado Discover 66-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Skeleton

"As soon as (we) uncovered it and realized this was a horn of a triceratops and not just another leg bone or part of a hip, it made the site really exciting."

© Zachary James Johnston, The Field Museum

SUE the T. Rex Is Getting a Makeover

As The Field Museum welcomes a new titanosaur, SUE’s getting a new look and new digs.

10 Ways Artists Imagined Dinosaurs Before the 21st Century

Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past explores the first 160 years of illustrating extinct species.

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Cephalopod Fossil Sketch in Australia Can Be Seen From Space

The tentacled behemoth last inhabited Australia 65 million years ago.

Courtesy of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Canada

The Exquisitely Preserved ‘Mona Lisa of Dinosaurs’ Has Been Named

The name Borealopelta markmitchelli honors the man who spent more than five years revealing, bit by bit, the amazing creature encased in stone.

What 6 Dinosaurs from Jurassic Park Really Looked Like

In the 24 years since the original 'Jurassic Park' was released, what we know about dinosaurs has changed a lot. Here's some of the new research that may change how you imagine these ancient animals.