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Ask A Paleontologist All Your Questions About Dinosaurs!

Matthew Carrano, curator for the Dinosauria exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, is here to answer all our questions about dinosaurs! Carrano’s research focuses on the evolution of predatory dinosaurs, how we read the fossil record, and paleobiology, a subject on which he’s published dozens of scientific articles. He also just recently returned…

io9 Ria Misra

Creationists Say Smithsonian Is Pushing “Religion of Naturalism”

Young-Earth creationist Ken Ham—whose non-profit organization has benefited from millions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks—says that the Smithsonian’s recent acquisition of a nearly complete T-Rex fossil is an egregious use of American tax dollars to fund “the religion of naturalism.” The T-Rex—delivered to Washington, D.C. last week—was discovered in 1988 by a Montana…

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These Are The World’s Weirdest Birds

There are almost 10,000 bird species flying the skies, roaming the lands, and diving the waters of our planet. Some of them are pretty similar to one another, perhaps because the two species diverged only relatively recently. But some of them are so unique you won’t believe they’re not made up. The species listed below…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

How To Transport a T-Rex Skeleton Across the Country

The Wankel Tyrannosaurus Rex has lived the past 26 years of its 65-million-year existence at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. This week the colossal creature’s carcass is moving to the National Museum of Natural History in D.C., where it will eventually live in a new $35 million dinosaur hall. But how does…

Tech News Leslie Horn

See The Most Detailed Images Ever Taken Of A Crocodile’s Insides

Ever wanted to see inside the body of a crocodile in the highest of resolutions? Now you can, thanks to Ohio University Professor of Anatomy and Paleontology Larry Witmer. To understand dinosaur anatomy, he’s turned to birds and crocodilians, their closest living relatives. The thing about fossils is that there’s so much of the animal…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Another Fine Feathered Friend from the Cretaceous

We can’t ever resist the urge to post a beautiful new dinosaur image from paleoartist Emily Willoughby. This is a Utahraptor, who lived during the Cretaceous period in (you guessed it) regions that are now part of the western United States. The feathers look amazing. This image is based on new research about the anatomy…

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This 3D Model Reconstructs A 110 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Chase

We may not actually be able see the harrowing chase that pitted a theropod against a sauropod over 110 million years ago. But — thanks to this 3D model reconstructing what happened — we can at least get a pretty good view of the aftermath. Though the real action happened millions of years ago, the…

io9 Ria Misra

This has to be the most ridiculous flying thing ever discovered

Meet the pink pterosaur,the most ridiculous dinosaur flying thing I’ve ever seen. The Pterodaustro guinazui was the flamingo of the Jurassic and one of the new flying beasts being introduced at the American Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit,Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. According to scientists, the Pterodaustro guinazui’s skin was probably pink…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Dinosaurs Were The Ideal Mounts For Navigating The Jungle Planet

Terry knew that the sauroid mounts bore only a superficial resemblance to the outdated images of dinosaurs he’d grown up seeing in his grandfather’s encyclopedias, but he didn’t care. Any time there was a hunt, he volunteered, eager to sit astride the scaly beasts and imagine their planet was a prehistoric Earth. Concept art by…

io9 Lauren Davis

Shot-for-Shot Cardboard Recreation of Jurassic Park‘s Epic T-Rex Chase

And now, a shot-for-shot remake of the wonderful Tyrannosaurus “we must go faster” car chase from Jurassic Park. Made entirely out of cardboard, toys and twine. Thanks to CineFix we now have yet another version of Jurassic Park’s famous T-Rex scene: And for posterity’s sake, here’s the comparison video. Well done!

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Imagine Trying To Outrun This 600-Pound “Chicken From Hell”

Say hello to Anzu wyliei, a newly discovered Cretaceous era dinosaur that roamed the Dakotas 66 million years ago. Measuring nearly 12 feet long and weighing over 600 pounds, it’s the largest oviraptorosaur ever discovered in North America. “We jokingly call this thing the ‘chicken from hell,’ and I think that’s pretty appropriate,” noted paleontologist…

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Pygmy Tyrannosaurs once ruled the Arctic reaches of Alaska

Meet Nanuqsaurus hoglundi. Based on its 25-inch-long skull, its body was probably half the length of a Tyrannosaurus Rex’s, but this petit tyrannosaurid was an apex predator of the Arctic. Cranial fragment fossils of Nanuqsaurus hoglundi (Nanuqsaurus means “polar bear lizard”) were collected from the Kikak-Tegoseak Quarry in North Slope, Alaska, in 2006, but it’s…

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Terrify Your Dinner Party Guests With These Thudding T-Rex Ice Cubes

The number one rule for hosting a successful dinner party? Make sure your guests fear gruesome death by dinosaur at least once during the evening. The best way to achieve the effect? These ice ripples that mimic that scene—you know the one—from the original Jurassic Park. No T-Rex needed! Slip one into someone’s glass then…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

More Evidence that Dinosaurs Still Live Among Us

These are the formidable talons of a Harpy Eagle, one of the largest species of raptor on Earth. Let them serve as a reminder that bloodthirsty dinosaurs live among us, that they are descended from downy forebears, and that, yes, feathered animals can be downright terrifying. For reference: Also for reference: See also: The feet…

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Mercury the two-legged cat does the world’s cutest T. rex impressions

Mercury the cat was found at five weeks old with no front legs. His limbs were unfortunately too injured to accommodate prosthetics, so being the industrious cat that he is, he instead learned to walk on his hind legs. This makes Mercury’s perhaps the fuzziest, most adorable T. rex impressions in the history of T.…

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Pet guide shows what could happen if you actually had a dinosaur

I love John Conway’s dinosaur illustrations, which you can buy on his site. His dinosaur pet guide is a lot of fun too—and you can buy it as a poster for $16. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Resurrecting Dinosaur-Age Proteins To Cure Human Disease

While dinosaurs have not yet been resurrected Jurassic Park-style, scientists fiddling with ancient DNA sequences have made a discovery that may turn out to be a tad more useful: a treatment for gout. That a 90 million-year-old protein could treat a modern disease is a fascinating window into evolutionary history. If you’ve heard of gout,…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

One of the remote-controlled Lost World dinosaurs actually bit an actor

In the second Jurassic Park movie, a pack of tiny Compsognathus swarm Peter Stormare’s character, Dieter Stark. Apparently, even the remote-controlled puppet versions of these Compies were vicious little critters; some were designed to actually bite Stormare’s lip. Stan Winston Studio posted this video of how they accomplished the Compy attack, and it’s a great…

Movies Lauren Davis

What if velociraptors survived into the Victorian era?

Poor Jane. All she wanted was to marry a virtuous young man. But her mother, treated so poorly by her husband, claims there is no such thing and sabotages all suits for Jane’s hand. By eating the suitors. After seeing this, good luck not wondering what Victorian literature would have been like if it included…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

This image showing every second of Jurassic Park looks like dino skin

To be fair, if you put together every second of any movie in one image, that image would almost always look like the skin and scales of dinosaurs but I swear my mind is making me believe it even more for Jurassic Park. It also kind of looks like a Magic Eye picture and I…

Sploid Casey Chan

Ask A Paleontologist All Your Questions About Dinosaurs!

Creationists Say Smithsonian Is Pushing “Religion of Naturalism”

These Are The World’s Weirdest Birds

How To Transport a T-Rex Skeleton Across the Country

See The Most Detailed Images Ever Taken Of A Crocodile’s Insides

Another Fine Feathered Friend from the Cretaceous

This 3D Model Reconstructs A 110 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Chase

This has to be the most ridiculous flying thing ever discovered

Dinosaurs Were The Ideal Mounts For Navigating The Jungle Planet

Shot-for-Shot Cardboard Recreation of Jurassic Park‘s Epic T-Rex Chase

Imagine Trying To Outrun This 600-Pound “Chicken From Hell”

Pygmy Tyrannosaurs once ruled the Arctic reaches of Alaska

Terrify Your Dinner Party Guests With These Thudding T-Rex Ice Cubes

More Evidence that Dinosaurs Still Live Among Us

Mercury the two-legged cat does the world’s cutest T. rex impressions

Pet guide shows what could happen if you actually had a dinosaur

Resurrecting Dinosaur-Age Proteins To Cure Human Disease

One of the remote-controlled Lost World dinosaurs actually bit an actor

What if velociraptors survived into the Victorian era?

This image showing every second of Jurassic Park looks like dino skin

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