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October is International Dinosaur Month and three books out this month from Smithsonian Books cater to dino lovers of all ages—each with a different approach to understanding these Cretaceous ...
Read more in Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, which is available from Smithsonian Books. Visit Smithsonian Books’ website to learn more about its publications and a full list of titles ...
Smithsonian Books is releasing Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved, a book that unravels the mysteries of one of the most extraordinary groups of animals, Oct. 11.Despite facing dramatic climatic ...
Smithsonian Books’ Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America by Donald R. Prothero will be available starting Oct. 4. The book explores the evolution, biology and ...
Even dinosaurs are social distancing, ... The institution laid off 237 employees in September, and there are rumors that Smithsonian Books, its publishing operation, is targeted for cuts.
The dinosaur hall first opened in 1911, when standards for handling fossils were very different. Many specimens, especially those acquired in the early years, weren’t fully excavated.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 years after dinosaurs were first displayed on the National Mall, T. rex — the king — is joining the Smithsonian collection after a 2,000-mile journey from ...
Gear up for fossil fun at the Florida Museum of Natural History’s “Cruisin’ Deep Time” Talk and Book Signing on Thursday, Feb. 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the National Mall, the museum complex announced Thursday.
"Ray has footprints of dinosaurs we don't have bones for yet," said Matthew Carrano, curator of dinosauria at the Smithsonian Institution. "We learned more about these animals than we had in 150 ...
The dinosaur bones at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History now boast new accommodations. After a four-year, $125 million renovation, the Hall of Fossils now features ...