Carnage of one kind or another has long been a staple of our fascination with dinosaurs. Give a child two dinosaur toys and you can be reasonably certain that within a few minutes they’ll be banging them together and making growling noises, spilling imaginary blood and viscera onto an imaginary,…

Those who pay attention to the world of dinosaur art know the name of Gregory S. Paul. Exploding onto the scene in the 1970′s, his dynamic imagery and distinctive technical illustrations inspired a legion of admirers and, inevitably, imitators. Many young dinosaur artists, myself among them,…

A few days ago, a new sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Utah was announced to the nation. Called Brontomerus, or “Thunder Thighs,” it’s notable for a few reasons. First, its hips had massive grooves for muscle attachments, meaning that the beast could potentially have packed a remarkably…

2009 was a pretty good year for dinosaur paleontology. But 2010 has been a fantastic one. To make up for my lamentable lack of activity in the past two months, I’m doing an extensive round up of all the cool stuff that’s been happening in the realm of the dinosaurian.

2010 has been the Year…

A sandstone quarry in New Jersey, long abandoned, has been the scene of a desperate and unsung fight for quite a while. It’s a low grade, apparently low stakes kind of battle, the kind that happens all the time. Developers (Boo! Hiss!) for a condominium community have bought the land surrounding…