FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Deinonychus antirrhopus If you met Deinonychus in the Early Cretaceous, your first thought might be, “ What a splendid bird .”  Your second...

Palaeontologists have just identified the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils found outside North America.  Until this discovery, confirmed D...

SUE, the T Rex at the Field Museum, Chicago Standing more than 12 metres (40 feet) long and roughly 4 metres (13 feet) tall at the hips, SUE...

Alnashetri cerropoliciensis Slip back 90 million years and wander the sun-baked floodplains of Patagonia, where the giants get all the glory...

Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis  This story begins some 125 million years ago on the lush floodplains of what is now the Isle of Wight, back ...

Among the towering dinosaurs, enormous marine reptiles and other spectacular fossils at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi is a much small...

Cassowary, Casuariiformes Wherever you are in the world, it is likely that you know your local birds. True, you may call them des Oiseaux, p...

Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis  This story begins some 125 million years ago on the lush floodplains of what is now the Isle of Wight, back ...

If ever there were a dinosaur that looked like it had dressed for a gala while everyone else showed up in sensible hiking boots, it was Ovir...

Rajasaurus narmadensis In the humid, fern-thick forests of Late Cretaceous India — about 67 million years ago — a flash of red moves between...

Here is a fellow to strike terror into your heart.  Meet Suchomimus tenerensis , a large, long-snouted spinosaurid theropod who prowled what...

Tucked along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, just outside Denver, Colorado, lies one of the world’s most famous fossil localities: D...

Darrin Mottler's Human to Theropod Comparison The wind always arrives first. It sweeps across the red cliffs of eastern Utah, brushing y...

Torosaurus was a ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous. These fellows look very similar to their Triceratops cousins but are...