Dinosaur News

DINOTRUX, by Chris Gall $19. Nothing beats a good picture book about dinosaurs. Well, except a great book about construction vehicles.

YOUNG MEETS OLD: Sophie Thomson, 11, of Lower Hutt, examines the 70-million-year-old dinosaur footprint at Whanganui Inlet.

With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long hours in the library, hunched over his laptop.

Third-graders at Roanoke Catholic School were probably the luckiest pupils in the Roanoke Valley on Thursday morning.

Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov.

TRIBUNE STAFF The Grande Prairie Multiplex will have an expanded RCMP satellite office operating during the day when it opens.

Paleontologist Paul Sereno poses with models of his Saharan discoveries: SuperCroc, BoarCroc on the upper right, PancakeCroc on the lower right, and RatCroc, DogCroc and DuckCroc on the lower left.

On one wall in Waukegan Public Library's Early Learning Center, a life-size replica of a baby tyrannosaurus rex sticks its head into the room.

A new study pitting academic expertise against a computer in recreating a 425 million-year old jigsaw puzzle has discovered that there is no substitute for wisdom born out of experience.

We've seen plenty of puzzle type dinosaur skeleton models in our time, and for the most part we like them.

Still, the more recent title to boast the hybrid, a Half-Life 2 mod titled Dino D-Day , actually allows you to go toe to talon with with these fanged, scaly members of the Third Reich.

Discounted rates this Sunday, November 15, 2009 will make it a bit easier for kama'aina and military families to see the latest exciting exhibits at Bishop Museum.

The holes in a T.rex jaw were probably left by a parasite, the new work suggests.

The world as we see today has not always been like this. It requires us to know the theory of evolution and a great deal of imagination to visualise the life and time that existed million of years ago.

Dinosaurs of the show 'Dinosaurier - Im Reich Der Giganten' perform during the Wetten dass...? show at the Messe Freiburg on October 3, 2009 in Freiburg, Germany.

A project to demolish and replace parts of the condemned visitor center at Dinosaur National Monument has gone out to bid.

Lubbock , Nov. 15: Sankar Chatterjee, the Bengali geoscientist who has ignited a debate around the world about an Indian link to the end of the dinosaur age, came to Lubbock from the centre of it all in Washington because he wanted to be closer to home: India.

I'm thinking of nominating myself. Until one day last week, when I found myself watching some sort of dinosaur train show with a grandkid, I didn't even know there were such things as state fossils.

However, for the paleontologists who routinely discover new dinosaurs, a good set of eyes, geological know-how and a little luck remain the best tools.

The author has taken the traditional approach of most dinosaur books that discusses each group chapter by chapter and turned it on its ear.