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Will This Fossil of Two Dueling Dinosaurs Ever Make it to a Museum?

This 60 million year old fossil of two dinosaurs locked in combat has scientists eager to take a closer look. The price of that look? Somewhere between $7-9 million dollars. The fossil goes up for auction tomorrow — and could easily end up in the hands of a private collector. Just who was getting the…

Gorgeously animated Walking with Dinosaurs ads with dino fun facts

The latest series of video ads for the upcoming movie Walking with Dinosaurs shows off the myriad animated beasts trotting, flying, and stomping through the film. It also shares so quick factoids about its prehistoric stars. Walking with Dinosaurs hits theaters on December 20th. I almost can’t wait for it to come out on home…

Parents spend November pretending the kids’ dinosaur toys come to life

Each year, Refe Tuma and his wife celebrate Dinovember, a month-long time of whimsy and fun when they try to convince their kids that their dinosaur toys come to life at night. Tuma has posted several particularly inspired photos from the dinosaurs’ nocturnal adventures over on Medium. (Update: And on Facebook!) Each morning during November,…

Fantastic parents convince their kids that toy dinosaurs are real

Kids will believe anything so why not let them imagine and wonder and dream and believe in magic? We all have to become semi-responsible, half functioning adults some day so let kids be kids, right? Refe Tuma and his wife certainly think so. Every November, Refe and his wife try and convince their kids that…

These Ferocious Dinosaur Wallpapers Will Rampage on Your Desktop

It’s scientifically proven: There is nothing more awesome than a dinosaur. These are some of the greatest dinosaur pictures of all time, ready to become your next desktop wallpaper. Yes, some of these are kaiju, so they’re more like imaginary dinosaurs. Live with it. Looking for something, by DeEtta (via DeviantArt/DeEtta) Jurassic Park by badillafloyd…

The newly named Lythronax argestes (aka “the king of gore”) walked the Earth 12-million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, and at much lower latitudes – yet the two bear a striking resemblance. In his latest for NatGeo, Brian Switek explores how Lythronax adds a new twist to the origin story of the famed tyrant king. Above:…

Inside the Bone Room: Where Dinosaurs Live at AMNH

The most interesting room in the American Museum of Natural History is one you’ll never see. Its inhabitants are millions of years old, its proprietors among the brightest in their field. This is the big bone room, home to what is arguably the largest and most important collection of mammal bones in the world. And…

Watch Jurassic Park recreated in a real-life Brooklyn park

Improv Everywhere decided to recreate Jurassic Park in Brooklyn. Hilarity and packs of children chasing dinosaurs ensued.

Sometimes a dinosaur just has to roll in the mud

When you’re a Triceratops, you have to teach your babies how to take a bath — especially on a hot day. Maybe your feathers will get a little dirty, but it’s a small price to pay when you need to cool down on a hot, late Cretaceous afternoon. This is just one of the many…

Dear god. This triceratops is made of pumpkins.

Attention overly ambitious pumpkin carvers of the Internet: Can you top this ceratopsid? No. No you cannot. This three-horned installation is one of the many incredible pumpkin arrangements featured at 2013’s Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze. This year’s epic jack-o-lantern festival (it’s held annually in upstate New York) features over five-thousand hand-carved pumpkins arranged into sea…

Dinosaurs Were Able to Grow So Huge Because of Their Squishy Joints

There’s a reason that towering mammals the likes of King Kong are resigned to fiction. Our aching bones can only take so much weight before they start crumbling under the pressure. But if that’s the case, then why were dinosaurs able to reach such phenomenal heights? According to a new study, the answer isn’t so…

For Sale: A 150-Million-Year-Old Sauropod Skeleton [UPDATE]

In the market for a beautifully preserved, 150-million-year-old, 55-foot long Diplodocus skeleton? HAVE WE GOT A DEAL FOR YOU. A 19-foot tall sauropod specimen (goes by the name of “Misty”), will be up for auction next month, and is expected to fetch close to a million dollars. But the greatest cost could be to science.…

Diplo feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex: Set It Off

An exciting thing happened in the world of dinosaur bones this week: News broke that a rare Diplodocus longus skeleton will go to the auction block next month. This must have thrilled everybody’s favorite beat jockey, Diplo, who took his name from the dinosaur. You see, Diplo (née Thomas Wesley Pentz) was fascinated with dinosaurs…

First Blood-Filled Mosquito Fossil Makes Jurassic Park Feel More Real

A team of scientists just made an exciting and very pop culture-friendly discovery in Montana: The first ever fossilized mosquito with a belly full of blood. This little guy’s been hanging out underground for 46 million years, and it’s a small miracle that it hung in there so long. “The abdomen of a blood-engorged mosquito…

The Most Brutal Endings of Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows

Last night, Breaking Bad broke us once and for all, with a fitting ending that gave us tons of closure. But many of our favorite TV shows have straight-up kicked us in the teeth on their way out. Here are the most brutal series finales of science fiction and fantasy TV shows. Top image: Life…

A Handmade Dino From Space Is the Best Stuffed Animal You Can’t Have

See this cute little space dino, floating like it’s the most natural thing in the world? Well he was made by hand, with love, in orbit. And you can never have him because he belongs to Earth’s luckiest three-year-old boy. Aren’t you green with envy? Mr. Saurus here (unofficial name) was made by ISS flight…

What if Dr. Seuss wrote Jurassic Park?

If Dr. Seuss created Jurassic Park, it would probably look (and sound) a lot like this bananas creation Seusstastic Park. Behold, all the stripey wonder! In celebration of a Best Western getting a dino-overhaul, the toy designer Sillof was hired to create some “Dr. Seuss meets Jurassic Park” figurines. And we think they are just…

It Turns Out Dinos Didn’t Need Feathers To Fly

In 2003 when a Cretaceous-era dinosaur adorned with long feathers was discovered in China, it sparked a debate as to if and how such a creature could fly. And to help resolve that debate, researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK put a scale model of the dino in a wind tunnel to…

Dinosaur DNA cannot be extracted from amber

Well, it looks like we may never have our own Jurassic Park. Scientists at the University of Manchester failed to pull DNA samples from insects trapped in 10,600 year-old amber, leading them to conclude that the chances of extracting intact DNA from samples millions of years older is likely impossible. For those living in a…

Jurassic Park IV renamed Jurassic World, and it’s coming in June 2015

As if summer 2015 wasn’t already looking overloaded with huge movies, now there’s one more. The fourth Jurassic Park movie, now titled Jurassic World, is coming out June 12, 2015. Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) is officially directing from a script he co-wrote with Safety co-writer Derek Connolly.