This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the 1984 film Ghostbusters, a ragtag crew of parapsychologists does battle with Zuul, a hellhound with a gargoyle’s ...

Three and a half decades after that, a 1978 cover story reported that T. rex was even larger, “fifty feet and six tons of bad news.” Until the late 1990s, most dinosaurs were shown with scaly ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

This dog-size dinosaur called Psittacosaurus is stunningly well-preserved and has revolutionized ... This story appears in the August 2023 issue of National Geographic magazine. Related Topics.

Despite what's depicted in movies and books, the real Tyrannosaurus rex was likely an awkward swimmer at best. To date, no ...

Who should really be allowed to dig for dinosaurs? The French countryside is rich in fossilized eggs, footprints, and bones. A battle is raging over who is allowed to hunt for them.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. ... “I was amazed by these dinosaur skeletons in the middle of New York,” he says.

These dazzling rock formations stand where dinosaurs once roamed. In the high desert of New Mexico, these sprawling badlands draw hikers and photographers with otherworldly “hoodoos” and a ...

Altogether, the pieces reveal a slender tyrannosaur that roamed Cretaceous Mongolia about 86 million years ago and was about ...

Richard Conniff, a National Magazine Award winner, writes often about the natural world. His recent National Geographic articles cover pterosaurs and privately owned dinosaurs. He’s the author ...

On the evening of March 3, 2013, a young paleontologist named Nizar Ibrahim was sitting in a street-front café in Erfoud, Morocco, watching the daylight fade and feeling his hopes fade with it ...

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