Bob's Dinosaurs Blog

There's a funny Monty Python sketch in a which a deranged-looking looney sits down on a park bench next to a proper English gentleman and says, apropos of nothing, "Did ... Read More

You don't have to look all the way back to the dinosaurs to learn a valuable lesson about the fine line between global extinction and survival. A recent study of ... Read More

Giant crabs with oversized right claws are the poster crustaceans for sexual selection: the reason male crabs have such huge claws is to attract female crabs. Now, a paleontologist has ... Read More

Yesterday, I was out innocently surfing the Web when I happened across a site that downloaded a Trojan Horse onto my computer (for those of you not in the know, ... Read More

Have you ever wondered why there were so many types of dinosaurs, ranging from the elaborately crested Styracosaurus to the huge-clawed Therizinosaurus to the tiny Microraptor? Well, an experiment ... Read More

Remember that Triceratops skeleton that Christie's in Paris was planning to auction off? Well, the global economy must be doing even worse than economists believe, because the massive skeleton fell ... Read More

Quick, what has the nose of an elephant, the skin of a hippopotamus, and the hooves of a horse? The answer is a brand-new species of Moeritherium that researchers say ... Read More

It may seem like splitting the difference between a huge, horrible global catastrophe and a merely giant, unpleasant one, but a doctoral student at the University of Hawaii has concluded ... Read More

Remember that episode of The Flintstones where Fred, Barney and the gang visit the Grand Canyon? It's just a little stream, but they speculate that it might be a "big ... Read More

As you plunge into the ranks of the more obscure dinosaurs--you know, the ones that lurk in the underbrush behind five-star dinos like T. Rex and Triceratops--you come across some ... Read More

I'm happy to announce that I have now posted 150 profiles on this site--not only of the carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs we all know and love, but also of a ... Read More

Coprolites--fossilized poops--aren't only helpful in identifying the eating habits of 100-million-year old dinosaurs. Recently, researchers dug up some human coprolites in Oregon, and determined (via carbon dating) that they were ... Read More

When they're not starring in mediocre movies like 10,000 B.C. and Ice Age, woolly mammoths are a subject of intense interest among paleontologists--who are every bit as curious about why ... Read More