Artists gave us renderings of what dinosaurs looked like by imagining flesh on the skeletal fossils that we have. We all know what a T-rex, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops is supposed to look like. Or we did, until bett...

Quite a few years ago, paleontologists discovered that dinosaurs were the ancient ancestors of birds, and since then, a few dinosaur fossils have been found with evidence of feathers, including two tyrannosauroids that p...

Sometimes you teach a young student scientific the...  ...his classmates visited the dig site as part of a paleontology program at their California high school. The fiel...  ...le, is on display at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California, after providing importa...  ...al Floss. (Image...

(Unrelated photo by Wilson Hui)How did the Urinator montanus get its name? The paleontologist Jason Poole was on a dig in Montana in 1999. He need to relieve his bladder, so he found a secluded spot and got down to busin...

(Photo: Dellex)A Jew who adheres to kosher can eat...  ...eth.You can read a summary of the authors' kosher paleontology at Real Clear Science.-via Jonah Goldberg

One reason dinosaurs capture our imagination is that they were so much bigger than anything we can imagine. But mammals have been large enough at times to shake the ground, too. Which was the biggest land mammal ever? Fo...

Columbia University professor of paleontology Dr. Paul Olsen knows a lot about dinosaurs -real...

(Image: Julius T. Csotonyi/Royal Tyrrell Museum)This may be a risky proposal approach, as it assumes that someone other than the editor and peer reviewers will actually read the article--especially the notes. But for pal...

Most of us have seen the internet meme that pokes fun at Tyrannosaurus Rex — its arms in particular. Countless humorous images feature the dinosaur in situations where arm length or strength is needed for one reaso...

You know about the paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. He was famous for his feud with fellow paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh. Cope revealed how Marsh assembled a nonexistent dinosaur called Brontosaurus by mistaken...