cnet.com — Who will win in the epic battle between Jedi Knights and T-Rex? This geeky Epic Battle Simulator video pits Star Wars against dinosaurs. Considering the number of Star Wars and Jurassic Park movies, it's a bit surprising we haven't seen both franchises combine into the ultimate geek dream of a film…

nationalgeographic.com — Australian miners uncovered the gem of a find—a dog-size herbivore named Weewarrasaurus pobeni. In a dazzling discovery, fossils brought up from a mine in Wee Warra, near the Australian outback town of Lightning Ridge, belong to the newly named dinosaur species Weewarrasaurus pobeni. The animal, …

theatlantic.com — Scientists have finally confirmed that a weird ribbed oval called Dickinsonia is an animal. Around 558 million years ago, a strange … something dies on the floor of an ancient ocean. Its body, if you could call it that, is a two-inch-long oval with symmetric ribs running from its midline to its fri…

gizmodo.com — They’re calling this newly discovered dinosaur “thorny head,” and it’s changing what we know of North American ankylosaurs, the heavily armored herbivores that had the misfortune of living alongside Tyrannosaurus rex during the Late Cretaceous. Behold Akainacephalus johnsoni, a new species and genus…

news.nationalgeographic.com — The tracks shed light on dinosaur life in the Middle Jurassic, a period from which few fossils have survived.

iflscience.com — Modeling of the aftermath of the asteroid that killed the non-avian dinosaurs suggests it was dark for at least a year, possibly with 99 percent of light...

theatlantic.com — Borealopelta, discovered accidentally by Canadian miners, is one of the most spectacular fossil finds of all time.

iflscience.com — 10-year-old boy spots that the Natural History Museum has incorrectly labeled a protoceratops as an oviraptor.

sciencealert.com — Jurassic Park's most iconic scenes should have run a little slower, based on new research suggesting our favourite dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex, couldn't manage more than a walk.

news.nationalgeographic.com — The 99-million-year-old hatchling from the Cretaceous Period is the best preserved of its kind.