Like many paleontology fans, I have a pretty big collection of little plastic dinosaur toys. Most of these I got when I was a kid and ha...

It's not often that we are introduced to a large new clade of stem-birds*, but a new paper by Wang et al. finds support for just such a ...

Iridescent feathers in troodontids - possible? Image by Matt Martyniuk, all rights reserved. (Supreme dino fans may recognize the pose ev...

This version of the painting, "The Fin-Back Lizards" (background:  Dimetrodon incisivus , foreground:  Naosaurus claviger ) by C...

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

In a previous post , I hung my tentative re-identification of the holotype teeth of Deinodon horridus  on a rough correlation between the Ju...

T. rex illustration by Matt Martyniuk, licensed . There's a pretty interesting historical paleontology thread happening over at the...