Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. This was Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, the largest-known dinosaur from Southeast Asia. Researchers have unearthed … Read more
A beloved restaurant is closing its Brooklyn location later this spring. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que will be closing its doors at its Union Street location after 15 years in the spot. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the closure of our beloved Brooklyn store later this spring,” the restaurant said in a statement posted … Read more
About 66 million years ago, the Tyrannosaurus rex roamed around Earth terrifying nature around it. Now, one of the largest predators ever to live on land can be your next purse. Researchers and bioengineers are working to create the next cruelty-free and sustainable luxury handbag using lab-grown leather from fossilized T. rex remains from the … Read more
People have long turned to Hollywood stars for diet ideas — it just hasn’t usually been the stars of “Jurassic Park.” But TikTok user @sahmthingsup has inspired countless social media users to do just that. In an effort to get more greens into her diet, she came up with “dinosaur time” — an admittedly silly … Read more
Welcome to Jurassic Parkway. Paleontologists recently discovered lines of strange indentations inside a quarry in England were actually dinosaur footprints from millions of years ago. The discovery was made after a site worker reported “unusual bumps.” A nearly 500-foot path roamed by the massive prehistoric creatures was discovered in Oxfordshire, near London. Massive dinosaur tracks … Read more
“Barney & Friends” didn’t warm everyone’s heart with the show’s catchy tunes or happy-go-lucky dinosaurs. Bob West, the original voice of Barney, appeared on the new podcast “Generation Barney” and recalled receiving death threats from people just because he voiced the purple T-Rex on the children’s TV series. “There were certain things, certain messages that … Read more
More than 260 dinosaur footprints discovered in Brazil and Cameroon provide further evidence that South America and Africa were once connected as part of a giant continent millions of years ago, according to a recent study. Scientists estimated that the footprints were originally made 120 million years ago about 600 miles apart, or roughly the distance between Dallas and … Read more
Call it a dinomite discovery. A Long Island professor is among researchers who discovered a new dinosaur species in Zimbabwe — the fourth ever uncovered in the African nation. Stony Brook University professor Kimi Chapelle played a pivotal role in finding fossils of this lengthy-necked herbivore, called a sauropodomorph dino, which inhabited the area 210 … Read more
Call it shovel and pail-eontology. Three North Dakota boys made the extraordinary discovery of a highly rare Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that could change what we know about dinosaurs. Now, the achievement of the young brothers Liam and Jessin Fisher and their cousin Kaiden Madsen is being immortalized in a documentary narrated by “Jurassic Park” star … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. We couldn’t believe it but somehow 30 years (!) have passed since Weezer dropped their critically-acclaimed debut “Blue Album.” To celebrate the anniversary of the iconic record — technically … Read more
One of the most impressively complete dinosaur fossils ever recovered is getting an autopsy. Big Al the Allosaurus, a 150-million-year-old resident of Wyoming, recovered 30 years ago and currently 95% complete, will be fully examined by experts at the Museum of The Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, in hopes of fully understanding “the record of its … Read more
A-prawn-calypse now. As if the 2023 Burning Man Festival wasn’t apocalyptic enough, the event was recently crashed by a biblical plague of three-eyed “dinosaur shrimp,” which wriggled to the surface of the Nevada desert to join the party. Also known as tadpole shrimp, or triops, the prehistoric critters had been lying dormant in subterranean egg … Read more
Thought last week’s Mississippi monster was impressive? A team of hunters put those gator grabbers to shame after hauling a more than 900-pound “dinosaur” gator from a Florida lake, as seen in jaw-dropping videos and photos making waves online. “I had fear like I never felt before,” Kevin Grotz, an outdoorsman who runs the outfit Florida … Read more
A young boy’s beloved dinosaur plush has been deployed to keep his father company on tour in Iraq. And in return, the U.S. Army sergeant documented the animal’s embedded “adventures” while overseas. In an effort to “keep his dad safe” from 6,000 miles away, 5-year-old Waylon Holmes mailed his father, David, the lime-green stuffed animal … Read more
While kids adored the purple dinosaur Barney in the ‘90s, fans are not loving his new look. After the toy company Mattel announced a relaunch of the Barney franchise, the internet reacted to the beloved character’s “scary” extreme makeover. “Thank you, Mattel for giving me nightmares with this horrifying-looking #Barney,” one Twitter user wrote. Another user tweeted, “man … Read more
Won’t you say you (still) love “Barney,” too? The iconic purple dinosaur is set for a makeover in an upcoming franchise reboot, the toy company Mattel announced on Monday. The relaunch of the 1990s icon — who haunted parents’ dreams with his constant reminders to be kind and optimistic, not to mention the “I love … Read more
Not a bad look for 152 million years old. German scientists might’ve made paleontological history after unearthing a “perfectly preserved” 152 million-year-old dinosaur fossil — which is believed to be the oldest specimen of the species ever discovered. The groundbreaking finding occurred in 2014, but was only recently documented in the journal Fossil Records. “The … Read more