Tyrannosaurus: Why There Is Only One… For Now.

Earlier this year, a little paper came out in March 2022 that kind of threw the vertebrate paleontology community (specifically the theropod dinosaur community) into a bit of a tizzy: “The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus” …

They Spared No Expense

Found on social media: Theropoda Blog Facebook Page. Like most paleontologists, I spent this week watching “Prehistoric Planet” on AppleTV+. For someone who grew up watching dinosaur documentaries on PBS and Discovery Channel (back when Discovery and its networks focused on, you know… actual science), this was a major TV premiere event as we had …

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