Western Digs’ Top 5 Paleontology Stories of 2014
A red-headed mammoth, a cave piled high with ancient animal remains, and an unusual South…
Oldest Horned Dinosaur in North America Discovered in Montana
The oldest known species of horned dinosaur in North America has been identified from a…
New Species of Giant Dinosaur From South Dakota ‘Fills Gap’ in America’s Fossil Record
It isn’t a brachiosaur — the type of giant, plant-eating dinosaur that had a titanic…
Allosaurus Died From Stegosaur Spike to the Crotch, Wyoming Fossil Shows
Analysis of an Allosaurus fossil from southern Wyoming shows that the giant meat-eater died from…
Spiky, Scaly New Species of Ankylosaur Discovered in New Mexico
The remains of an unusual armored dinosaur found in New Mexico may “fill the gap”…
Dig This Video: What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?
An asteroid did it. For most of us, a giant space rock colliding with Earth…
Baby and Adult Dinosaur Tracks in Alaska Prove Duck-Bills Lived in ‘Social Herds,’ Study Says
Tiny baby dinosaur tracks discovered in Alaska may have big implications for our understanding of…
New Species of Horned Dinosaur With Flashy, Butterfly-Shaped Frill Discovered in Montana
One of the most abundant and diverse families of dinosaurs from the Ancient West has…
Dig This Video: 5 Animals That Aren’t Dinosaurs
We often hear any animal that’s extinct, unusual, and vaguely reptilian described as a dinosaur.…
Giant Crested Bird-Like Dinosaur Discovered in the Dakotas
Two teams of paleontologists were each puzzling over unusual, but incomplete, fossil skeletons of an…
‘Cool’ New Arctic Tyrannosaur Discovered in Alaska Fossil
At a quarry on Alaska’s North Slope, scientists have found the fossil skull of an…
Western Digs’ Top 5 Paleontology Stories of 2013
A hundred million years ago, much of the territory that Western Digs covers was under…
Young Dinosaur Found in Ancient Mud Pit Is New Species of ‘Small Giant,’ Fossils Suggest
A young sauropod that met its death mired in an ancient mudflat may have been…
‘Colossal’ New Species of Predatory Dinosaur Dwarfed Tyrannosaurs, Scientists Say
An enormous new species of predatory dinosaur has been discovered in the fossil beds of…
