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 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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

There aren’t many dinosaurs confirmed to be semiaquatic. A new discovery adds a duck-like species to their narrow ranks. This reconstruction depicts Natovenator polydontus, a newfound species of ...

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

Incredible dinosaur ‘mummy’ reveals a surprisingly hoof-like foot. The amazing fossil is helping scientists understand how soft tissues can be preserved for tens of millions of years.

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 ...

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 ...

A possible crater buried under the West African coast may have come from a space rock that crashed into Earth around the time of the cataclysmic Chicxulub impact.