"It's easy to get me excited about anything related to fossils," says Amy Atwater. That's a pretty good quality to have when you're the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison — and ...

Around 110 million years ago, a dinosaur went hunting. Stalking through ferns along a riverbank, he twitched his nose to the wind and caught scent of a plant-eater ahead. His head darted upward. His ...

Jack Horner inspired a character in Jurassic Park after the dino discovery of a lifetime.

Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English natural history scholar, was ...

Even for people of advanced years (like me), the past can seem slippery and far away. For the very young — who have so little past to reckon with — it’s an even more difficult thing to grasp. Last ...

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults ...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of the weirdest and most reality-shifting moments in science. On Feb. 20, 1824, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society in London, the world was ...

SOUTH BEND — More than 50 visitors came to the Indiana Dinosaur Museum on opening day, their celebration a culmination of founder Mark Tarner’s vision. The museum displays massive skeletons of ...