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Will Global Warming Bring Back These Terrifying Lizard Kings?

A giant prehistoric lizard who feasted on huge mammals back when the world was broiling is a possible preview of what our world will look like when climate change melts the ice caps. The “Lizard King,” named for Jim Morrison’s reptilian alter ego, thrived upon the flesh of big animals during a warm age 36…

Sploid Ken Layne

This is the world’s earliest bird

Remember Archaeopteryx — that bird-like creature many consider to be the earliest ever? Yeah, well, it just got trumped by this guy: Meet Aurornis xui, a newly discovered species of dinosaur that could be the earliest known member of the bird family tree. Called Aurora for short, it’s name means “daybreak” or “dawn” — and…

io9 George Dvorsky

Greatest Wedding Photo In the History of the World

The Lowders were trying to take their bridal party pictures, when a most unexpected guest popped into the photo frame. But their terror is our gain, and it has resulted in what is clearly the greatest wedding photo of all time. Update: We talked to the photographer! The photo was taken by J. Quinn Miller…

io9 Meredith Woerner

How did T. rex evolve small forearms?

From Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comes a cautionary tale about technology and evolution. This week, Weinersmith takes a look at what implications a hands-free device like Google Glass might have on the process of descent with modification, while (inadvertently?) responding to this panel, posted last week over at XKCD: Who knew T. rex…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Allosaurus Ate Like a Terrifying Two-Ton Falcon

Tyrannosaurus rex was a thrasher, prone to vigorously shaking its powerful, prey-packed jaws from side-to-side like a crocodile. But new simulations reveal Allosaurus was equipped to dismember its prey with a little more decorum, stripping flesh from bone not with the head-swinging motion of a croc, but the meticulous tug-tug-tug of a falcon. Top image…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Everything wrong with Jurassic Park in under 180 seconds

Jurassic Park got a lot of things right – driving home the point that birds are dinosaurs, for example. It also got a LOT of things wrong. https://gizmodo.com/back-to-jurassic-park-a-paleontological-view-470471393 CinemaSins counts 36. We – and others – have counted a lot more missteps than that, though most if not all of those have been of the…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

How did feathers evolve?

Today we have birds. Millions and millions of years ago we had feathered dinosaurs. What happened in between? In this recently posted TEDEd video, science journalist Carl Zimmer explains 200-million years of feather-evolution in just three minutes, with the help of some fine animation work by Armella Leung. Check out the rest of the lesson…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Jurassic Park 4 delayed. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

Hold on to your butts — Jurassic Park 4 has been pushed back… way back. But here’s why that’s a good thing. A collection of suspicious tweets have been popping up from members of the JP4 crew. Ain’t It Cool News screencapped a number of these messages from Digital Asset Manager Todd Smoyer and another…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This may be the oldest dome-headed dinosaur ever discovered

Paleontologists from Canada have unveiled a newly identified species of a dog-sized pachycephalosaurs. It’s considered the oldest of its kind ever discovered in North America — and quite possibly the world. Called Acrotholus audeti, the two-legged herbivore roamed the plains of southern Alberta about 85 million years ago. The name is derived from the Greek…

io9 George Dvorsky

Dino Corn Cob Holders Convince Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies

If dinosaurs had held your veggies when you were a kid, would you have ever passed them off to the dog? Probably not, because these dino corn cob holders are awesome. So maybe you’re old and have things like your health to worry about now, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still appreciate these kitschy…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Jurassic Park 4 will return to Isla Nublar!

Still trying to wrap your head around potential plot points for Jurassic Park 4 (the whole world knows dinosaurs exist by now… right?) Well add this bit of news to your plotting, Jp 4 will return to the original dino isle, Isla Nublar! Director Colin Trevorrow tweeted out this interesting image which both confirms that…

Movies Meredith Woerner

This is not a finch

In fact, it’s not even a bird. Strictly speaking, this is a papercraft model of a finch, and an incredibly realistic one at that. Dutch artist Johan Scherft has created a whole series of fantastically lifelike 3D bird (and dinosaur!) models, carefully crafted from paper templates which he designs on the computer and hand-colors in…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D trailer is simply stunning

Behold the first gorgeous footage from Walking With Dinosaurs 3D. It is a thing of beauty. Just tune out the clichéd voice over. We love everything about this trailer and this movie, except one thing, the premise. When you check on IMDB the synopsis for this movie is: Two brothers looking to follow in their…

Trailers Meredith Woerner

The four-winged dinosaur Microraptor had a rare taste for fish

Four-winged and clad in iridescent black plumage, the dinosaur known as Microraptor is among the most intriguing subjects of paleontological inquiry in recent memory. Now, fossilized guts reveal the crow-sized creature is also one of the few dinosaurs known to have dined on fish. This strange, shiny-feathered reptile just continues to amaze. https://gizmodo.com/this-four-winged-dinosaur-is-helping-rewrite-the-book-o-5891617 Top image…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez

Jurassic Park re-opens for 3D business in this week’s DVDs!

Plus, there are girls with cow tails, Marvel’s most bizarre mutants, some serious exploration of human-monkey relations and more, in this week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases. • Jurassic Park 3D Was your Jurassic Park DVD, your previous Jurassic Park Blu-ray, and then all those Jurassic Park trilogy sets getting lonely? Why not give Steven Spielberg…

Movies Rob Bricken

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D is a visual feast

The movie is gorgeous, it looks like The Land Before Time in “real life,” but the best news is none of the dinosaurs talk. Wrapping up our coverage of CinemaCon 2013 we wanted to call attention to a few films that fell under the hype radar. First, Walking With the Dinosaurs 3D. The BBC series-inspired…

Movies Meredith Woerner

A critical analysis of David Bowie’s crotch bulge in Labyrinth

Besides the subject mentioned in the headline, today’s “Postal Apocalypse” includes a historical look at butt-wiping technologies, how Cobra gets its funding in G.I. Joe, the worst Star Wars prequel quote, and more. It is possibly my favorite “PA” ever. Please, please keep those awesome questions comin’ to [email protected]. The Straight Poop Chris P.: Sometimes…

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This is How the Jurassic Park Animatronic Triceratops Was Built

As a young pup watching Jurassic Park, I was in terrified of the T-Rex, fearful of the Raptors, in awe of the Brachiosaurus and annoyed of that little spraying dinosaur. But probably above all, I felt for the Triceratops. It was hurt! It was dying! It was so incredibly detailed. Stan Winston School revealed how…

Tech News Casey Chan

Brontosaurus Is the Most Amazing Dinosaur Who Never Existed

I can’t stay away from dinosaurs. Any excuse is a good one if I can spend a few hours wandering among their lovely skeletons in the museum halls. That’s how I encountered this Brontosaurus, magnificent but incorrect, drawn from another era in paleontology. On a cool November day in 2010, I decided to play hooky…

Books & Comics Brian Switek

At last, a dating simulation that lets you go on a date with a T-Rex

If you’re weary of the same manga pretty boys and girls who inhabit most dating simulation games, then take a toothy stab at Jurassic Heart. This brief dating sim lets you go on a date with a truly unusual beau: a ukelele-loving Tyrannosaurus Rex. Created by writer and programmer Thongrop Rodsavas and artist Piti Yindee,…

io9 Lauren Davis

Will Global Warming Bring Back These Terrifying Lizard Kings?

This is the world’s earliest bird

Greatest Wedding Photo In the History of the World

How did T. rex evolve small forearms?

Allosaurus Ate Like a Terrifying Two-Ton Falcon

Everything wrong with Jurassic Park in under 180 seconds

How did feathers evolve?

Jurassic Park 4 delayed. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

This may be the oldest dome-headed dinosaur ever discovered

Dino Corn Cob Holders Convince Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies

Jurassic Park 4 will return to Isla Nublar!

This is not a finch

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D trailer is simply stunning

The four-winged dinosaur Microraptor had a rare taste for fish

Jurassic Park re-opens for 3D business in this week’s DVDs!

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D is a visual feast

A critical analysis of David Bowie’s crotch bulge in Labyrinth

This is How the Jurassic Park Animatronic Triceratops Was Built

Brontosaurus Is the Most Amazing Dinosaur Who Never Existed

At last, a dating simulation that lets you go on a date with a T-Rex

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