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Yermo, California

Peggy Sue's 50's Diner & Diner-Saur Park

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
A Eubrontes and two smaller Grallator tracks with foot for size comparison.
Middlefield, Connecticut

Powder Hill Dinosaur Park

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.
Haddonfield, New Jersey

Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.
The front of Barratt's grave.
Middletown, Connecticut

Joseph Barratt's Grave

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.
A holotype of <em>Avimaia schweitzerae</em>.
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Found: The First Egg Inside a Bird Fossil

Everything’s better with an egg on (or in) it.
Sabrina Imbler March 20, 2019
The Flintstone House in 2007, from its perch off I-280.
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Neighbors Have Escalated Their War on the Eccentric ‘Flintstone House’

Astroturf, dinosaurs, and the Great Gazoo pushed them over the edge.
Sabrina Imbler March 18, 2019
Dinosaur track on An Corran.
Isle of Skye, Scotland

Isle of Skye Dinosaur Tracks

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.
An illustration of the red-headed <i>Anchiornis</i>.
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This Dinosaur's Feathers Are an Evolutionary Mystery

They offer conflicting clues as to whether or not it could fly.
Matthew Taub January 28, 2019
Borrego Springs, California

Galleta Meadows Estate

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Sue looking at home in their new suite at the Field Museum in Chicago.
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Sue the Celebrity Dinosaur Just Got a Makeover

The 67-million-year-old T. rex has been tweeting all about it.
Shaena Montanari December 21, 2018
Plesiosaur.
London, England

Mary Anning's Plesiosaur

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.
Diplodocus skeleton.
Seegräben, Switzerland

Sauriermuseum Aathal

Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.
We now know what the missing teeth would have looked like at the front of this jaw.
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We Always Thought This Dinosaur Was a Vegetarian, Then We Found Its Front Teeth

A sharp surprise from Montana's Hell Creek.
Matthew Taub October 26, 2018
A raptor, genus <em>Zhenyuanlong</em>.
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Paleontologists Are Still Digging Into the Origins of the 'Chinese Pompeii'

What we know (and what we don't) about the Jehol Biota.
Robin George Andrews October 22, 2018
The ripples are plainly visible beside dinosaur tracks. A new mural above showcases both.
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Prehistoric Sand Is Full of Secrets

Petrified wave ripples can tell us about the weather that dinosaurs saw.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 18, 2018
Inside the cave.
Georgia

Sataplia Nature Reserve

The cave holds a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites, including one shaped like a giant human heart.
The bake-a-fossil technique turned a fresh lizard foot crispy and brown.
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How to Make a Fossil in a Single Day

The recipe calls for fresh feathers or lizard feet, clay, heat, and a whole lot of pressure.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 25, 2018
The foot, in situ.
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Found: One Very Big Foot

Paleontologists describe the largest dinosaur footprint ever found.
Sarah Laskow July 24, 2018