Paleontology Guides
Comprehensive guides for dinosaur enthusiasts and paleontology students.
Dinosaur Hunters and Discoveries
The history of paleontological discovery, from the Bone Wars to modern expeditions, and how fossils are found and studied.
The Bone Wars: Cope, Marsh, and the Birth of American Paleontology
The bitter rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh that launched American dinosaur science, and its complex scientific …
How Fossils Form: From Death to Discovery
The science of taphonomy, permineralization, trace fossils, exceptional preservation in Lagerstätten, and what makes a good fossil site.
Digging Up Dinosaurs: Modern Excavation Techniques
How paleontologists prospect for fossils, map and excavate sites, jacket specimens for transport, and prepare them in the lab — …
Dating the Dinosaurs: How We Know When They Lived
Radiometric dating, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, and magnetostratigraphy — the multiple independent methods that let scientists place dinosaurs precisely in geological time.
Greatest Dinosaur Discoveries of the 21st Century
Dreadnoughtus, Patagotitan, feathered dinosaurs from China, the rediscovery of Spinosaurus, and remarkable soft tissue preservation that is reshaping paleontology.