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Geotimes
September 2007
Marilyn Keane |
A Huge Discovery in Wyoming A geologist and a band of volunteers digging on private land in Wyoming discovered a spectacular skeleton of a 150-million-year-old Camarasaurus.   |
Salon.com
June 1, 2000
Donald D. Groff |
Digging for dinosaurs Our expert offers tips on family-oriented dino sites, historic Route 66 and Welsh bardic tourneys. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Spencer G. Lucas |
The Three Faces of Dinosaurs Three images of dinosaurs tell a remarkable story of how paleontological discoveries have driven research that has shaped and reshaped paleontologists' understanding of of the most famous of all extinct creatures. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Callan Bentley |
Summer Roadtrip: A Fossil Aquarium in Wyoming Fossil Butte National Monument is located in southwestern Wyoming, near the town of Kemmerer. It is the best place in the world to see freshwater lake fossils from 50 million years ago. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Josh Chamot |
Dinosaur skeletons in the closet More than 20 years after unearthing a 215 million-year-old skeleton, paleontologists are realizing the value of their find. |
Science News
September 10, 2005 |
Dinosaurs! The Smithsonian Institution's dinosaur website lets on-line visitors peruse through their collection as well as view the evolution of the dinosaur. |
Geotimes
October 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
David Fastovsky: Dinosaur Virtuoso The paleontologist has played the viola in some of the finest dinosaur fossil sites in the world. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Dwarfing Earth's Largest Dinosaur When compared to their counterparts today, animals and plants in the late Jurassic period, about 161 million to 145 million years ago, appear super-sized. Newly discovered dinosaur fossils show, however, that the largest animal to ever walk on Earth also came in a dwarfed version. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Laura Stafford |
Parenting Psittacosaurus An adult Psittacosaurus and 34 associated juveniles found in the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China, may be evidence of parental care by dinosaurs. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Megan Sever |
Dinosaur-Eating Mammal Recent excavations in China's Liaoning province have uncovered a well-preserved complete skeleton of a dog-sized mammal, alongside a cat-sized mammal that had the remains of its last supper -- a young dinosaur -- fossilized in its stomach. |
D-Lib
November 2001 |
Sue at The Field Museum 'Sue' is the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex) to have been discovered to date. The award winning online exhibition makes learning about Sue possible for those who cannot visit The Field Museum... |
Smithsonian
May 2006
Helen Fields |
Dinosaur Shocker New observations could shed light on how dinosaurs evolved and how their muscles and blood vessels worked. And the new findings might help settle a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs were warmblooded, coldblooded -- or both. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2007
Jean Kumagai |
Nels Peterson: He Digs Dinosaurs Old Bones: An engineer among paleontologists offers a different way of thinking and looking at things. |
Geotimes
October 2004
Laura Stafford |
T. Rex Hits Puberty New research based on growth ring counts from the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex shows that the dinosaur put on the bulk of its mass during its teenage years and then died shortly after its growth spurt. |
Popular Mechanics
November 16, 2009
Cassie Rodenberg |
The Top 8 Dinosaur Discoveries of 2009 For paleontologists who routinely discover new dinosaurs, a good set of eyes, geological know-how and a little luck remain the best tools. |
High on Adventure
August 2008
Vicki Andersen |
John Day Fossil Beds Situated within the deeply eroded layers of volcanic ash, the John Day Formation is a well-preserved history of the flora and fauna that flourished during 40 million years of the Cenozoic Era. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Large Dinosaurs Ran Hot Size does matter -- at least when it comes to dinosaurs' body temperatures, according to new research. Using growth rate and age information gleaned from fossils, researchers have estimated likely body temperatures for dinosaurs of various sizes, as well as tyrannosaur survival rates. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Martin & Case |
Fossil Hunting in Antarctica Expeditions to the continent of Antarctica has brought great information about animals in the distant past and show that the world, and particularly Antarctica, was much warmer around 70 million years ago compared to the present. |
Geotimes
July 2005
Megan Sever |
Dinosaur Links Meat-Eaters and Vegetarians A new dinosaur, called Falcarius utahensis, has provided a previously missing link between carnivorous and herbivorous therizinosaurs, which lived millions of years apart. |
Geotimes
December 2006 |
Geomedia Books: Hell Creek: 65 Million Years in the Past, the Journey Begins by L.M. Graziano and M.S.A. Graziano... Quarry by Susan Cummins Miller... etc. |
Inc.
July 2009
Kasey Wehrum |
The Business of the Museum A look at companies that helped to create a dinosaur exhibit at Pittsburgh's natural history museum. |
Geotimes
March 2004 |
Dinosaurs in the cold, dark Antarctic Washington, DC -- Paleontologists recently unearthed two Antarctic dinosaurs' skeletons, representing two new species from very different time periods on the southern continent. |
Geotimes
October 2003
Naomi Lubick |
David Krause: Kudos at home and abroad This month, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) will recognize David Krause with the 2003 Joseph T. Gregory Award for outstanding service to the welfare of the organization. But his activities in the paleontology community also have a global impact. |
Geotimes
November 2007 |
The Little Dino That Could A flying dinosaur found in Mongolia is so small that it is overturning previous thinking about how and when dinosaurs evolved and took flight. |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Birds Evolve Small Genomes Pre-Flight The holes in fossil dinosaur bones are pointing out the holes in the theories of bird evolution. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Philip J. Curie |
Fine-Feathered Adventures in China Unearthing the Dragon: The Great Feathered Dinosaur Discovery by Mark Norell is as fine a dinosaur book as it is good travel literature. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Ediacaran Fossil up Close Paleontologists have recently uncovered a goldmine of exceptionally well-preserved fossils in Newfoundland, Canada. |
Geotimes
January 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Planet Warms, Plants Move in Interlopers from southern and eastern North America and from Europe made their way to Wyoming when global temperatures shot up by 5 to 10 degrees Celsius around 55.8 million years ago. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Megan Sever |
Correcting the Fossil Record Recently, paleontologists have been working on ways to fill in gaps in life's diversity record, and some researchers are finding that climate change -- including greenhouse gas warming -- may play a pivotal role in preserving fossil assemblages. |
