This is a guest post by Robert Gay, an attendee of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting in Dallas, 2015. When…
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Dinosaurs Dilophosaurus – less of a frilly, venom-spitting lizard than we thought by Robert Gay
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Dinosaurs A tiny start for the giant Saurolophus
Gigantic skeletons of dinosaurs often draw the biggest crowds at museums, but the elusive remains of baby dinosaurs are breathtaking in their…
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Dinosaurs Welcome, Wendiceratops!
It’s a very exciting time to be a paleontologist interested in horned dinosaurs. New species are being described at an incredible rate. But…
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Dinosaurs Guest blog: A Missed Opportunity for Paleontologists
[From time to time on The Integrative Paleontologists, we will invite guest bloggers to share alternate viewpoints about current topics. Today’s guest post…
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Dinosaurs The Curse of the Horned Dinosaur Egg
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in…
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Dinosaurs Guest Post: Can We Easily Distinguish Male and Female Protoceratops?
This guest post is from Leonardo Maiorino, a vertebrate paleontologist with a particular interest in understanding the evolution of the skull in…
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Dinosaurs Brontosaurus thunders back!
Pretty much every person who ever read a dinosaur book or went to a natural history museum learned that Brontosaurus is just an…
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Dinosaurs The Open Access Dinosaurs of 2014
As we enter 2015, it’s a good time to reflect on the state of paleontology and the state of open access. Because…
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Dinosaurs Assembling the Aquilops Paper
In my previous post, I introduced Aquilops, a new little dinosaur from ancient Montana, and talked about some of the science behind establishing…
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Dinosaurs Aquilops, the little dinosaur that could
Today, several colleagues and I named a really cute little dinosaur—Aquilops americanus. At around 106 million years old, Aquilops turns out to be…
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Dinosaurs Give the Gift of Paleoart!
One of my favorite things about the Internet Age, among many favorite things, is the way in which it facilitates access to…
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Dinosaurs Can penguins tell us how far the Cretaceous diving bird Hesperornis wandered?
Don’t mess with Hesperornis. It was a flightless, aquatic Cretaceous bird that measured up to six feet long, had a beak lined with…