Two “exceptionally large” feathered dinosaurs have been discovered in a quarry in South Dakota, a find that may help answer some crucial questions about life in the ancient West.
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Cave Discovered in South Dakota Contains Thousands of Ice Age Fossils
Once protected by thickets of poison ivy and riddled with rattlesnakes, a cave discovered in South Dakota’s Wind Cave National Park has, for the scientists exploring it, certainly lived up…
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Western Digs’ Top 5 Paleontology Stories of 2014
A red-headed mammoth, a cave piled high with ancient animal remains, and an unusual South Dakota dinosaur are all among the discoveries that shaped Western Digs’ most popular paleontology stories of…
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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 body and a peculiarly tiny head. Nor is it quite like a diplodicid, the sauropod…
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Giant Crested Bird-Like Dinosaur Discovered in the Dakotas
Two teams of paleontologists were each puzzling over unusual, but incomplete, fossil skeletons of an animal they couldn’t identify, when they finally met and realized that they were all looking…
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T. Rex Tooth Found in Dinosaur’s Tail Proves Tyrannosaurus Was a Predator, Study Says
The telltale tooth of a Tyrannosaurus rex found embedded in the tail of a plant-eating dinosaur provides long-sought proof that the famous carnivore hunted and killed its prey, paleontologists announced…
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