Little  Pterodactylus ,  from the late Jurassic period of Bavaria, was one of the first pterosaurs ever discovered (a story you can read all...

Your bill's looking a little puny, there, buddy. (Painting by Heinrich Harder, 1912, public domain). Everybody knows Pteranodon . Q...

The new Carnegie  Velociraptor  figure. I'm pretty slack when it comes to keeping up with my Twitter account, but if one thing can g...

"Hissssssssssssssssss!" T. rex holotype specimen. Photo by Scott Robert Anseimo, CC BY-SA 3.0 . It's an iconic scene in e...

Above: Our subject matter. It's often said by those who support a strict phylogenetics-based system of naming life that it's onl...

I'm posting this more as an open question than a statement of my own opinion, so comments appreciated! A new paper out in Paleobiology...

Question: Who cares about dinosaurs? Short Answer: Marketing departments and monster movie fans. Above: Not what most people think of...

This is something I had completely missed until my wife found it linked to on a political blog a few weeks ago. Filmed in 1998, it's a p...

  Above: Working sketches for a speculative B. matleyi reconstruction by Steve O'Connor. Click here for Steve's final drawing . ...

Above: Revised illustration of Achillobator giganticus with corrected leg proportions. Scale bar = 500 mm. By Matt Martyniuk, all righ...

For those who didn't figure it out, yesterday's mystery bird teaser was a bit of a trick question. In fact, the bird, which I rest...

Making the rounds right now in the media is a story about a newly described, well-preserved baby Tarbosaurus bataar that helps shed some li...

There's been a lot of debate about Confuciusornis lately. Could it fly? If so, how? And how well? It probably wasn't doing anything...

Above: Comparison of common Velociraptor reconstructions by artist Tomozaurus , used with permission. A month or so ago, this diagram (...