The dinosaur illustrator has a tough job: Imagine a living creature from a meager set of bones. Working with scientists and armed with just their wits and pens, these artists strive to create the ...

Scelidosaurus harrisonii, Owen. ¼. late 19th century illustration, pen and ink on medium weight, wove paper, 50cm x 94cm (19 5/8" x 36 3/4"), O.C. Marsh Collection of Dinosaur Illustrations, ...

We’ve all seen those colorful, life-like illustrations of dinosaurs—T. rex lunging with open jaws, for example, or a giant Brachiosaurus nibbling at prehistoric foliage. But one has to wonder, how ...

Historic illustrations of dinosaurs are reflections of the science of their times. This makes them less accurate, but engaging in the manner of careful line-drawings capturing a worldview from a time ...

One otherwise unmemorable day, Donald Henderson, then a student of geophysics, took a different route through the stacks of his university library. He was startled by a book he’d never seen before.

Over its lifetime, Earth has hosted countless species. But some of those species, like the dinosaurs, have managed to claw their way into a special place in our imaginations. Now, a new book ...

Download a free printable set of dinosaur coloring bookmarks—fun, black and white coloring page perfect for kids, classrooms, & reading fun to make a bookmark! Do your kids love dinosaurs? Are you ...

In 1996 the scientific world was stunned to learn that a fossil dinosaur with feathers had been found in China. The animal, shown in a 1990s artist's reconstruction, was Sinosauropteryx, a turkey-size ...

Sinosauropteryx, a turkey-size carnivorous dinosaur, is the first dinosaur—excluding birds, which many paleontologists consider to be dinosaurs—to have its color scientifically established. In 1996, ...