The Ultimate Dinosaur Reading List

Most dinosaurs are dusted off as fragmentary skeletons. But those few bones can be enough to describe a new species, and on average, a new species is discovered every week. We are in the golden age of paleontology.

On the cusp of adulthood in an era of in-betweens, a search for fossils and meaning.

If museums of natural history are temples to science, dinosaurs are their shrines.

Paleontologists pull inspiration from modern birds and reptiles to design true-to-life T. rexes.

The true story behind our obsession with the last and largest of the tyrannosaurs.

Though you may have never specifically thought about how much dinosaurs weighed, this is something that paleobiologists have been trying to figure out for more than a century.

A fully intact T. rex has never been found, but building one is no problem.

If, through some scientific malfunction, you found yourself transported 70 million years into the past, you might be safer from certain hungry reptiles than you think.

We asked experts for insight into what tearing into a rack of Tyrannosaur ribs would be like, from a flavor and texture perspective, and it doesn’t sound half bad.

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

To find out, Gizmodo reached out to a number of geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists.

Modern birds appeared to emerge in a snap of evolutionary time. But new research illuminates the long series of evolutionary changes that made the transformation possible.

In 19th-Century America, rare old bones were a resource like any other.

Stegosaur expert Susie Maidment is laying crucial groundwork for assigning ages to fossils from North America’s most dinosaur-rich rocks. More precise timings promise to reveal plenty about how the beasts lived and evolved through time.

The “Wankel T. rex” is one of the largest and most complete skeletons of the meat-eating dinosaur ever found.

A brief history of dinosaur movies, from Gertie the Dinosaur to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Turns out massive flood control projects are a great way to find dinosaurs.

Jack Horner, a paleontologist who inspired a character in the original Jurassic Park, says science is ready to resurrect the dinosaurs. But should we?

Plan an entire trip around your (or your little ones’) favorite types of dinosaurs. Here’s where to go to spot your most beloved species.

Palaeontology and dinosaur specialist Paul Barrett says many of the 1,200 known species of dinosaur were far more complex than we once thought. Some were brightly feathered, many were at least partly warm-blooded