As a young pup watching Jurassic Park, I was in terrified of the T-Rex, fearful of the Raptors, in awe of the Brachiosaurus and annoyed of that little spraying dinosaur. But probably above all, I felt for the Triceratops. It was hurt! It was dying! It was so incredibly detailed. Stan Winston School revealed how they built the Triceratops, how they painted it, how they shipped it and how the puppeteers controlled it in this video. Part two of the Triceratops video can be found here. [Stan Winston School] Read More >>

When Daisy Morris was four years old, she found fossilised bones of a previously undiscovered species of the flying reptile beast pterosaur. Now, at nine years young, scientists have decided to name the reptile, which lived during the same time period as dinosaurs, after Daisy. It's called Vectidraco daisymorrisae. How cute. Read More >>

This Latin inscription on this his curious beast identifies it as a "dragon as it was recovered in the hands of the engineer Cornelius Meyer". The picture comes from a 1696 book that Meyer wrote describing his construction projects, and an etching on the cover claims to show the dragon as it looked alive in 1691, stalking the marshes near Rome. Read More >>

For most of us laypeople, it's an accepted truth the dinosaurs were wiped out by a big ol' asteroid that smashed into the Earth, easy as that. For scientists, however, there's always been some question as to whether or not that was actually the case. But some new revelations have proven that we dummies were right in our gross over-simplification all along. Read More >>

A Scottish toy company called H. Grossman has decided that kids are tired of the inanimate plastic dinosaurs most of us grew up with. Apparently today's young'ns need interaction, and a grander sense of scale. So the company plans to release a £9,500+ dinosaur toy called the Megasaur for priveleged children around the world. Read More >>

For years, people were perfectly happy believing that the series of fossilised footprints in Australia's Lark Quarry was all that remained of an epic dinosaur stampede. Then Science happened. Read More >>

A team of palaeontologists has discovered what they think is the oldest known dinosaur: a new species which predates previous earliest dinosaur specimens by 15 million years. But they didn't have to go on an expedition or get their hands dirty to find it—they merely stumbled across it in a museum store room. Read More >>

Conventional Grand Canyon wisdom holds two things to be true: it is exceptionally deep, and about five million years old. A new study, though, has pegged the yawning chasm's age as more than 10 times older than previously thought. Read More >>

After being discovered and misidentified back in 1958, the fossil remains of a massive twenty foot long, two-ton horned dinosaur found in Alberta have finally been acknowledged as a new species. Although there's no evidence, scientists* speculate that Xenoceratops foremostensis fled north from what is now the United States 80 million years ago after being displeased with prehistoric election results. Read More >>

If you've always wondered how Tyrannosaurs Rex ate the horned monstrosity that was a Triceratops, you need puzzle no longer. Scientists have finally pieced together how they did it—and it was surprisingly straightforward. Read More >>

Despite hitting cinemas almost 20 years ago, Jurassic Park and its ground-breaking special effects still holds up. And if you've yet to find the perfect Halloween outfit for next week, check out this behind-the-scenes look at the velociraptor costumes Stan Winston Studios created for the film. Read More >>

Every so often, a scientific breakthrough comes along that completely reshapes our world, giving us untold insight and inestimable hope for a more perfect future. What a world, it makes us think, and what privilege to be a part of it. Read More >>

Taking a self-portrait might be the least of a T-Rex's smartphone-wrangling problems, but it would definitely be the funniest. Although I'm sad we'll never know what dinosaur duck-face looks like. [TwentyTwoWords via TDW] Read More >>

Obviously Clive Palmer, the eccentric Australian billionaire, hasn't learnt anything from the film; he is determined to create a cloned dinosaur for an actual, in-the-flesh, Jurassic Park. That's not going to end well. Read More >>

New research published in Nature suggests that the very same meteor that crashed into Earth 60 - 70 million years ago—the one responsible for wiping out all the dinosaurs—may also be responsible for the red colour of today's tomatoes. Read More >>