Above: New specimen of Anchiornis and skeletal showing feather proportions, from Hu et al. 2009. Click to embiggen. If you've been car...

Above: Recon of Raptorex by Todd Marshall, from CBC News . Quick taxonomic update: Having just gotten the paper, I can comment that Bill Par...

Above: Paul Sereno with a model and skull cast of Raptorex , possibly the most ridiculously named dinosaur of all time. Photo from Chicago ...

Above: Skull of Brachiosaurus altithorax (right, from Carpenter & Tidwell, 1998) and "B." brancai (left, by Gunner Rias, li...

Above: Iridescent Peacock feather, from Flickr. A new study shows that patterns, iridescence and even color can be preserved in fossil feat...

Above: Mark Witton explains why pterosaurs are so cool. Copyright BBC. Nothing much to report in the way of good goss lately. It's be...

There is a new record holder for second-longest dinosaur, longest if you only count bones that currently exist. Skip past the long-winded in...