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Rare Images Show How the Museum of Natural History Preps Its Displays

The giant mammal bones on display at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History are impressive approximations of creatures that once walked the earth (and in some cases, those that still do). But equally if not more amazing? How those displays were actually assembled. We recently ran across a collection of rare, archival photos…

Tech News Leslie Horn

These Are The Weirdest Dinosaur Statues Ever

No animal deserves a monument more than a dinosaur. That’s why some of the weirdest, biggest, and most awesome (in the original sense of the word) statues in the world are devoted to these extinct beasts. Here are some of the most mind-boggling. Kissing dinosaurs, Erenhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region In the border town between…

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Incredible chrome T-rex skeleton scavenges on the banks of the Seine

There’s nothing more magnificent than a T-rex skeleton — except, maybe, one made entirely of chrome that is rising up over the River Seine in Paris. I think this sculpture by Philippe Pasqua might be the exact definition of “metal.” In so many ways. I think a Mastodon song might be in order, even if…

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Pixar replaces Good Dinosaur director with no one, yet

Life ain’t easy for a Pixar director. Known for their arduous pre-production process, entire films crews can shift if the Pixar top brass doesn’t like what’s happening. And now The Good Dinosaur director Bob Peterson has been axed from his own feature. Just recently we discovered that Pixar’s next big dino project would take place…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This Terrifying Raptor Chase Is the Most Traumatic Prank of All Time

Japan has just raised the bar on pranks forever. There’s putting buckets of water above doorstops, filling someone’s cubicle with packing peanuts, and now there’s making a dude think he’s being chased by an actual fucking velociraptor. Seriously, if your prank doesn’t involve the prankee either 1) having a heart attack or 2) wetting themselves…

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This Database Lets You 3D Print and Explore Thousands of Fossils

Fossils are three-dimensional objects, but you aren’t really supposed to touch them, and you can’t see their depth and detail very easily over the internet. But a new database of fossils from the British Geological Survey actually has the necessary files for you to 3D print fossils yourself. The searchable database has thousands of images…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Even dinosaurs love a good sunset

It was a beautiful evening at the lake, and Deinonychus antirrhopus ruffled its feathers appreciatively. As to what the ancient animal might have been thinking, we can only speculate that it had something to do with noms. Deinonychus antirrhopus was a dinosaur who lived during the early Cretaceous period, and whose length could grow to…

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This dinosaur’s huge body didn’t work the way we thought it did

Sauropods were some of the most successful dinosaurs that ever lived, partly thanks to the way they used their long necks to reach food. But a new study of ostrich necks reveals that what we thought we knew about the evolution of these dinosaurs was wrong. After they evolved in the late Triassic, sauropods spread…

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Dinosaur CAT Scan Shows 3 Different Species Are Actually The Same

Cutting edge imaging technology isn’t just helping us tiny humans — it’s helping solve a dinosaur identity crisis. Researchers have developed a brand-new imaging technique that builds a 3D image of a dinosaur skull, creating a CAT scan-style readout. They say this technique proves that what we thought were three separate species of dinosaur are…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Pixar’s Good Dinosaur is an alt-history where the asteroid never hit

Ever since we spied early concept art of a little boy palling around with a dinosaur, we’ve been curious how Pixar was going to spin its new movie The Good Dinosaur. And today, at the D23 Expo, the plot details were revealed. Plus a whole lot more info about other upcoming Pixar features. https://gizmodo.com/whats-behind-pixars-dinosaur-concept-art-5347214 First…

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What a Timelapse Would Have Looked Like When Dinosaurs Were Alive

This video is pretty bizarre but hey who doesn’t like dinosaurs, mammoths, dragons, giant bugs and timelapse videos? The timelapse video was shot at Borrego Springs, California, a small town that fiercely protects the darkness of the night sky by regulating outdoor lighting. It’s apparently 1 of 4 communities in the world that are considered…

Tech News Casey Chan

Scientists ruin Jurassic Park dinosaur dream

According to science, the whole idea behind the Jurassic Park movies is bogus. Those “preserved in amber” mosquitoes used to create living, tourist-eating dinosaurs? A new study proves this could not happen the way it did in the popular movies. If only Spielberg had changed one little detail …. https://gizmodo.com/the-entire-premise-of-jurassic-park-is-wrong-because-of-961667776

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16-foot dinosaur tail unearthed in Mexico is in perfect condition

For the first time in the country’s history, paleontologists in Mexico have discovered a fully articulated dinosaur tail – and it’s a doozy. Believed to have belonged to a hadrosaur living 72-million years ago, the tail’s 50 intact vertebrae extend a whopping 16-feet in length, and are in pristine condition. That a fully articulated tail…

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AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let’s Make Some Dinos

At the American Museum of Natural History’s two-week camp Capturing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Extinct Species Through Digital Fabrication, a group of teens learned the processes and tools used by paleontologists for studying dinosaur bones and digitally reconstructing them. And we got to tag along for some of it. It all begins in the deep underbelly of…

Tech News Nicholas Stango

This Fossil-Covered Museum Houses Australia’s Largest Dino Collection

Australia’s Outback is a forbidding land, and many of its dinosaur bones remain unexcavated. But in the early 2000s, a small family of cattle ranchers discovered a bone gold mine on their land. They set out to build a structure for their ongoing find—and their sheer enthusiasm convinced a group of architects and contractors to…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Finally: Actual physical evidence that T-rex was a predator

It looks like the most badass predator to have ever roamed the Earth, but paleontologists have struggled to prove that Tyrannosaurus rex actually hunted its prey, leading some to believe that it was a scavenger. Now, the discovery of a T-rex tooth embedded in the tail of a hadrosaur offers the first direct evidence. Top…

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Every Public Sculpture Should be a Full-Size Chrome T-Rex

Every public, abstract sculpture in the world suddenly seems super lame. Why? Because right now there’s a full-scale, blinged-out Tyrannosaurus Rex standing over the Seine in Paris. Nothing will ever be the same again. Designed and constructed by French artist Philippe Pasqua, the ‘saur is made up of 350 chrome-molded bones and stands 12 feet…

Tech News Eric Limer

Building the Animatronic Terror That Trounced a T-Rex

Jurassic Park III may not be your favorite movie in the series. But that doesn’t mean its effects weren’t fantastic. In fact, the somewhat random third entry in the series boasted the biggest animatronic ‘saur yet: the Spinosaurus. Stan Winston Studios recalls the details of that behemoth’s construction, and it’s wild to watch. Jurassic Park…

Movies Eric Limer

What to do if you find a wee baby dromaeosaurus out of its nest

Your definitive guide to all things pertaining to displaced baby birds. And dromaeosaurs. We’re happy Bird and Moon cartoonist Rosemary Mosco was specific enough to call a dromaeosaur a dromaeosaur, and not simply a “dinosaur.” Birds, after all, are dinosaurs. (Some of them, in fact, are rather savage.) https://gizmodo.com/all-the-proof-you-need-that-bloodthirsty-dinosaurs-live-5982218

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Why your dinosaurs are about to be killed by Daleks

When you see pictures of dinosaurs, there are a few awful tropes that come up again and again. Not only do they make dinosaurs vulnerable to Dalek attack, says paleobiologist Mark Witton, but they also prevent people from understanding what the big animals were really like. https://gizmodo.com/a-book-that-will-make-you-question-everything-you-know-5965389 Witton put the above illustration together out of…

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Rare Images Show How the Museum of Natural History Preps Its Displays

These Are The Weirdest Dinosaur Statues Ever

Incredible chrome T-rex skeleton scavenges on the banks of the Seine

Pixar replaces Good Dinosaur director with no one, yet

This Terrifying Raptor Chase Is the Most Traumatic Prank of All Time

This Database Lets You 3D Print and Explore Thousands of Fossils

Even dinosaurs love a good sunset

This dinosaur’s huge body didn’t work the way we thought it did

Dinosaur CAT Scan Shows 3 Different Species Are Actually The Same

Pixar’s Good Dinosaur is an alt-history where the asteroid never hit

What a Timelapse Would Have Looked Like When Dinosaurs Were Alive

Scientists ruin Jurassic Park dinosaur dream

16-foot dinosaur tail unearthed in Mexico is in perfect condition

AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let’s Make Some Dinos

This Fossil-Covered Museum Houses Australia’s Largest Dino Collection

Finally: Actual physical evidence that T-rex was a predator

Every Public Sculpture Should be a Full-Size Chrome T-Rex

Building the Animatronic Terror That Trounced a T-Rex

What to do if you find a wee baby dromaeosaurus out of its nest

Why your dinosaurs are about to be killed by Daleks

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