It is a book that could not have possibly been published 20, 10, or even 5 years ago, and since its publication last fall several more feathered dinosaurs have been announced.

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Dinosaurs thrived on our planet for many millions of years. Scaly and feathery, toothy and armored, the reptiles evolved into ...

A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park: North America’s oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species — a flying ...

News. How an SMU dinosaur hunter's 72 million-year-old sea monster got to the Smithsonian Paleontologist Louis Jacobs and colleagues have found some of the first creatures to swim into the South ...

Inside the revamped Smithsonian dinosaur exhibit 03:40. The dinosaurs inside the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have been in hiding for nearly five years while the dinosaur hall is ...

After Marsh’s death in 1899, the skull came to the Smithsonian among five train cars full of fossils that became the foundation of the museum’s dinosaur collection. Its fate was better than most ...

WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is acquiring its first full Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for eventual display in a new dinosaur hall planned for the museum on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 years after dinosaurs were first displayed on the National Mall, T. rex — the king — is joining the Smithsonian collection after a 2,000-mile journey from ...

Meet the biggest and smallest dinosaurs in the Smithsonian’s redesigned exhibit June 6, 2019 More than 6 years ago Even with its neck lowered, the Diplodocus towers over the Eoraptor at the new ...

The Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History in D.C. is celebrating a significant milestone for one ... “USNM V 4734 has always been a prize of the Smithsonian’s dinosaur collection ...