The past year has been a good one for dinosaur science, yielding some excellent new species and some intriguing new ideas. Some of them were bitterly contentious, while others changed the way we looked at dinosaur evolution and behavior. And some of them were just cool. With the close of 2009,…

The truth is, we all like to watch dinosaurs fight. That’s a major, if not the primary part of their appeal. Countless films and novels have built on the idea of ferocious primordial combat, and why not? Of all the animals, living or extinct, dinosaurs offer the most spectacular mix of weaponry…

Students of paleontology have long known that prehistory is a strange and scary place. But it’s a place that is safely gone. Giant insects, gargantuan dinosaurs, monsterous fliers–all locked safely behind a tomb of rock, barred from rising and devouring mankind. If mankind had lived with such…

Tyrannosaurs have been somewhat in the news lately. A recent study announced that Sue the T.rex died from a debilitating infection common in modern birds, Sampson was put up for auction (he didn’t sell) and the unfortunately named Raptorex was introduced to the world. Now, from the closing…