The Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” seems to promise a return to an imagined past, when the nation was better and more authentically “American.” Even if the vision ...

Charles R. Knight's realistic renderings were referred to as restorations. During a time when dinosaurs were capturing the fascination of people across the country, Knight's ground-breaking ...

Some social media posts said the bones were discovered in North America, while others suggested a North African locale.

Our dinosaur researcher, Professor Paul Barrett, says, “the discoveries in the American West gave us, in many cases, the first examples of substantially complete dinosaur skeletons. We had been ...

The research supported the theory that the extinction of dinosaurs set off events that led to widespread growth of fruit. A ...

Dinosaurs have captured people's imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

Research over the past decade has revealed striking similarities between Australian and South American dinosaurs. These include megaraptorids with claws shaped like scythes, and small, fleet ...

Dinosaurs are one of the most successful groups of animals to have roamed the planet. For over 170 million years they dominated the land, from small creatures just a few feet long to some of the ...

In fact, traces of past debates about American identity can be found in surprising places: dinosaur museums. Dinosaurs weren’t debating their identity, of course. But the 19th century Americans ...