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All Together Now: DIMETRODON IS NOT A DINOSAUR

Like pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, Dimetrodon, while commonly mistaken for a dinosaur, isn’t actually a dinosaur. In fact, unlike pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, Dimetrodon isn’t even a reptile, but instead belongs to a diverse group of animals that includes all modern day mammals. Seriously. According to Emily Graslie – host of the outstanding YouTube science…

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Fossil Poaching and the Black Market in Dinosaur Bones

Fossils are amazing, so of course you want to own one. Not so much. Owning a piece of geologic history seems awesome, but the fossil trade is ethically dubious and can substantially harm science. Selling fossils into private ownership means they’re lost to research forever. Above: Sue the Tyrannosaurus was recovered from the auction block…

io9 Mika McKinnon

Great Cosplay Choices: Googly-Eyed Cardboard Dinosaur

On Stunning Pictures, this is just captioned “So, my friend made herself into 15 foot long cardboard velociraptor with googly eyes.” That’s pretty casual wording for the utter amazingness of this.

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Palaeontologists Next To Dinosaur Bones

Including scale in photographs is important for them to hold scientific value. When you’re a geoscientist taking field-photos, humans make remarkably good scale objects. Enter palaeontologists, with their constant need to point out how much larger dinosaurs are than their research topics. https://gizmodo.com/scale-is-deceptive-1578771839 Diego Pol next to a titanosaur’s thigh bone via CBC http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-discover-largest-dinosaur-ever-to-have-walked-the-earth/ https://observationdeck.kinja.com/paleontologists-laying-near-giant-dinosaur-bones-1578923927

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The Plot To Jurassic World Sounds Impressively Ridiculous

Is this the plot to the fourth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise, the Chris Pratt-starring Jurassic World? Find your local purveyor of salt, buy some, and then take it; but if it is real, then people are still making some impressively horrible dinosaur-cloning decisions. According to JoBlo, Jurassic Park is back in business, but…

io9 Rob Bricken

These Bones Might Be the Biggest Creature That Ever Walked the Earth

Paleontologists have just unearthed the fossilized bones of a gigantic dinosaur that’s never been seen before. They believe it’s an entirely new species—and based on the size of its bones, it’s way bigger than what we thought was the biggest dinosaur ever. Meet the new number one among earthly creatures. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156 Based on the size…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Start Your Own Private Museum With a 3D Printer and This T-Rex Model

Does waiting in line at a museum just to check out some old dinosaur bones that may or may not be real sound like a terrible way to spend a weekend? If you’ve got a 3D printer at home, MakerBot’s Digital Store is now selling this anatomically correct T-Rex skeleton model that you can print…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Jurassic Park Lied to You: T-Rex Had Great Eyesight Really

In the immensely popular (despite the sins) movie Jurassic Park, there’s the famous scene where the giant T-Rex is attacking a jeep during a thunder storm. As it attacks, Dr. Alan Grant, a self-respecting paleontologist, yells, “Don’t move! He can’t see you, if you don’t move.” Here’s the thing – that’s wrong. (If that comes…

Tech News Matt Blitz - TodayIFoundOut.com

Get Your Artifacts Identified Today at the Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History is one of Gizmodo’s favorite places in NYC, and today’s an especially cool day to visit: it’s Identification Day, when you can bring in your fossils, unidentified plants, unknown family heirlooms, or just about anything else old or unusual, and have it identified by museum experts. It’s like Antiques…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Illustrations of the Iguana-Toothed Dinosaur

Historic illustrations of dinosaurs are reflections of the science of their times. This makes them less accurate, but engaging in the manner of careful line-drawings capturing a worldview from a time gone past. This is the Iguanodon as seen by scientists throughout time. Iguanodon was first identified in 1825 by Gideon Mantell, which means that…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

AAAAAAH! Dinosaur Throws Opening Pitch At Baseball Game

Stop what you are doing immediately and watch this!!! Dinosaurs are real and they are playing baseball. This Raptor threw the opening pitch at the Padres game. GAME OVER, ALL OTHER TEAMS. [via Geekologie]

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Behold ‘Pinocchio Rex’ — An Entirely New Breed Of Tyrannosaur

Introducing Qianzhousaurus sinensis — a new confirmed species of long-snouted tyrannosaur that menaced the Earth 66 million years ago. The recent discovery of its fossilized remains confirms a longstanding theory about tyrannosaurs. This slender, 30-foot-long dinosaur lived during the late Cretaceous. It belonged to the same family as Tyrannosaurus rex, but its skull was markedly…

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Dinosaurs Avoided Total Extinction By Getting Smaller And Smaller

Dinosaurs took on many different shapes and sizes, but paleontologists are learning their success had nothing to do with their iconically massive bodies. If anything, their evolutionary success would appear to have come from their longstanding ability to keep shrinking. Just ask the birds. Top image: Nebezial via Deviant Art. Shortly after the dinosaurs made…

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Chat With a Paleontologist About Pterosaurs and the AMNH’s New Exhibit

The American Museum of Natural History here in New York just kicked off an exhibit about those ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs. These rulers of the sky happen to be the least understood of prehistoric creatures, so we’ve got Mark Norell, the curator in charge of the paleontology department at the AMNH and master of…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Zombie Dinosaur!

This week’s writing prompt is simple: write about a zombie dinosaur or dinosaurs. Is it a prehistoric apocalypse? A new Jurassic Park gone wrong? You decide. This zombie T-Rex is the work of B.R.Guthrie, via r/ImaginaryDinosaurs. Guthrie has written his own bit of prose related to this image, and you can read it over on…

io9 Lauren Davis

Summer 2014 Museum Guide: Get Out And Do Science!

The summer is approaching, and it’s a perfect time for a road trip. So we’ve compiled a list of “must see” science events and museum exhibits, aroudn the globe. Plus some specialty museums that are awesome in their own right. Get ready for a packed summer! Summer Stargazing Canada Science & Technology Museum This museum…

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Death to Dinosaurs! An Absurd List of Extinction Theories

Why did the dinosaurs die? Sure, you could go with careful, rational reasons, or you can go for the totally insane theories! Or, maybe they were all eaten by the ever-adorable Edison Quillsworth Bristlebottom, a hedgehog with voracious dino-nibbling appetite who lives with Jenn Sell & Ryan Gierke. Photography credit: Jenn Sell & Ryan Gierke…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The Ten Most Bizarre Theories About Why the Dinosaurs Went Extinct

One fact that paleontologists have always agreed upon is that the dinosaurs are all dead. Beyond that, there’s been plenty of room for disagreement—especially concerning the cause of the giant reptiles’ extinction. Here are 10 of the most unusual theories. 1. Rickets! According to a 1928 report in the Science News-Letter, Harry T. Marshall, a…

io9 Mark Strauss

Why Were Dinosaurs So Much Bigger Than Animals Today?

Not every dinosaur was gigantic, but the ones that were were absolute behemoths. So, why did they get so much bigger than animals that walk the land today? Image: The sizes of some of Mongolia’s common dinosaurs in comparison to a person, including the adorably petite Velociraptor. / Conty Matthew Carrano, the curator for the…

io9 Ria Misra

Oh God Why Isn’t This Amazing Baby Dinosaur Robot Real

Dear makers of Robosapien: Suck it. Toy inventor Never Ben has created the superior-in-every-way Boomer, and the only problem is that it’s a prototype and not something I can buy right this instant. If you watch the video, you can see Boomer, sit, speak, eat, get pissed off when someone tugs on his tail, and…

io9 Rob Bricken

All Together Now: DIMETRODON IS NOT A DINOSAUR

Fossil Poaching and the Black Market in Dinosaur Bones

Great Cosplay Choices: Googly-Eyed Cardboard Dinosaur

Palaeontologists Next To Dinosaur Bones

The Plot To Jurassic World Sounds Impressively Ridiculous

These Bones Might Be the Biggest Creature That Ever Walked the Earth

Start Your Own Private Museum With a 3D Printer and This T-Rex Model

Jurassic Park Lied to You: T-Rex Had Great Eyesight Really

Get Your Artifacts Identified Today at the Museum of Natural History

Illustrations of the Iguana-Toothed Dinosaur

AAAAAAH! Dinosaur Throws Opening Pitch At Baseball Game

Behold ‘Pinocchio Rex’ — An Entirely New Breed Of Tyrannosaur

Dinosaurs Avoided Total Extinction By Getting Smaller And Smaller

Chat With a Paleontologist About Pterosaurs and the AMNH’s New Exhibit

Concept Art Writing Prompt: Zombie Dinosaur!

Summer 2014 Museum Guide: Get Out And Do Science!

Death to Dinosaurs! An Absurd List of Extinction Theories

The Ten Most Bizarre Theories About Why the Dinosaurs Went Extinct

Why Were Dinosaurs So Much Bigger Than Animals Today?

Oh God Why Isn’t This Amazing Baby Dinosaur Robot Real

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