Factoid of the Week February 18 Exhibit Spotlight: Deinonychus antirrhopus After Jurassic Park catapulted Velociraptor into pop stardom, many among the general public tend to conflate all small meat-eating dinosaurs with the raptor group (technically they’re known as the maniraptors, which means “grabby hands”). To continue our survey of the small carnivorous theropods of the park, let’s check out Deinonychus. Up until the discovery of Utahraptor in 1993, Deinonychus weighed

Factoid of the Week February 11 Since our most recent Factoid dealt with a new dinosaur, this week we’ll examine its closest relative in the park. Built like a greyhound, this animal measured about 10 feet long and may have weighed 50-70 lbs. Coelophysis is New Mexico’s state fossil. Though well-known thanks to spectacular discoveries of over 1,000 individuals found at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico (the quarry that Larry’s block came from), it has experienced some taxonomic confus

Factoid of the Week February 4 Paleontology Newsflash: Dracoraptor hanigani Barely a month has passed in 2016, yet an important new dinosaur has already made headlines. This time it’s a Welsh critter from the early Jurassic—in fact, it’s the oldest Jurassic dinosaur known. And it has an über cool name 8} Tiny but mighty, the Dracoraptor measures at 7-10 feet long. No weight estimates currently exist, but it was probably lightly built, maybe 60-80 lbs. Why mighty? It may have