“The holes in front of us were fossilized tracks, huge ones. Dinosaur tracks, no doubt. As we looked closer, we could see that there were both handprints and footprints, and some of them had finger and toe marks. They had… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“These are feathers. Not the quill-pen feathers that make up the wings of today’s birds but simpler ones that look more like strands of hair. These were the ancestral structures that bird feathers evolved from, and it is now known… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“there is no denying that by the dawn of the Campanian subinterval of the latest Cretaceous, beginning about 84 million years ago, tyrannosaurs had… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“The holes in front of us were fossilized tracks, huge ones. Dinosaur tracks, no doubt. As we looked closer, we could see that there… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying, but T. rex was huge: adults were about forty-two feet (thirteen meters) long and weighed in the ballpark of seven… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“During the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous, tyrannosaurs flourished, ruling the river valleys, lakeshores, floodplains, forests, and deserts of North America and… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“These are feathers. Not the quill-pen feathers that make up the wings of today’s birds but simpler ones that look more like strands of… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image