If it does not look like a duck, walk like a duck, or quack like a duck, it’s probably not a duck. Why the Dueling Dinosaurs tyrannosaur is probably not Nanotyrannus, but a Stygivenator.

A huge tyrannosaur bone from the late Campanian of New Mexico hints at a large and previously unknown species- and possibly at the ancestry of T. rex.

“Calling somebody else fat won't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. And ruining someone else’s life doesn’t make you any happier. All you can do in life is try to solve the problem in front of you.”

What does all that negativity get you?

Zero.

There are probably multiple pachycephalosaurs in the late Maastrichtian- Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis, Pachycephalosaurus(?) reinheimeri, Stygimoloch spinifer, Sphaerotholus buchholtae.

One of the craziest facts I learned studying marine reptiles is that certain plesiosaurs- polycotylids and leptocleidids- have an extra bone in the forearm and lower limb, which as far as I know isn't seen in any other animals. 

70 million years ago, duckbill dinosaurs crossed hundreds of miles of open water to colonize Africa- and then underwent an evolutionary radiation

Stephen King’s classic manual of fiction writing isn’t so much a guide to writing novels as a philosophy of creative work