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Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Natural History Museum of Mongolia

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.
Colorful birdhouses fill the woods.
South Hero, Vermont

Birdhouse Forest

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.
The Flaming Cliffs.
Bulgan, Mongolia

Flaming Cliffs

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.
Human foot for scale
Holyoke, Massachusetts

Dinosaur Footprints of Holyoke

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
Midland, South Dakota

Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.
Dinosaur tracks!
El Paso, Texas

Sunland Park Dinosaur Tracks

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
Pterosaurs probably didn't have their legs out like this.
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We Have Probably Been Imagining Pterosaurs All Wrong

New research suggests we've misunderstood the legs of these prehistoric flyers.
Cara Giaimo May 24, 2018
Triceratops.
Port Orange, Florida

Bongoland Ruins

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.
A taxidermy grizzly bear.
Choteau, Montana

Old Trail Museum

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.
Permanently Closed
Close up of the T-Rex head from the left.
Huntsville, Alabama

K’REX

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.
SUE watches as a couple of mammals prepare for some foot removal.
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SUE the T. Rex Is Moving

We interviewed everyone's favorite murderbird about their new digs.
Cara Giaimo February 6, 2018
Two Ankylosaurus come to blows.
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Why More Animals Don't Use Their Tails as Weapons

By wielding their built-in defenses, some prehistoric creatures thwacked enemies hard enough to crack bone.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 18, 2018
<em>Caihong juji</em> was a study in contrasts.
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How We Know That This Dinosaur Had Bright, Audacious Plumage

Microscopic structures hint at an iridescent past.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 15, 2018
Yum?
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Found: A New Species of Lizard in a Dinosaur's Stomach

A prehistoric snack is now thought to be a previously unknown species.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 3, 2018
Dinosaur footprint at Valley of the Dinosaurs
Sousa, Brazil

Valley of the Dinosaurs

One of the few places in the world where visitors can walk alongside fossilized tracks from 80 different dinosaur species.
The amber-trapped prehistoric parasites with an extant tick measuring 0.2 inches.
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Found: 99-Million-Year-Old Ticks Trapped in Amber

One of them was entangled with a dinosaur feather.
Vittoria Traverso December 13, 2017
One of Edward Hitchcock's ambrotype sketches of dinosaur footprints from his 1858 book, <em>Ichnology of New England</em>.
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The First Scientist to Study Dinosaur Footprints Thought Giant Birds Made Them

Edward Hitchcock clung to his theory, even when paleontologists said it didn’t fly.
John Meszaros December 12, 2017
Dino tracks.
Helotes, Texas

Dinosaur Tracks at Government Canyon

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.