A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs

For many kids, dinosaurs are a fleeting childhood phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favorites based on ferocity, armor, or sheer size, many kids eventually get over their dino phase. For all those non-paleontologists who didn’t outgrow their dinosaur obsession, dinosaurs remain an enduring mystery—they are at once familiar and mysterious. And yet we’re in an age of unprecedented discovery—new dinosaur species and genera are being discovered at an accelerating rate; we’re learning more about what they looked like, how they lived, how they evolved, and where they all went. This series isn’t just a top Trump’s list of dino facts—we explore the why and the how and like all areas of science there is plenty of controversy and debate.