Paleontology

Dig Dem Bones

Flying Monsters looms large at the IMAX 3-D Theater: A Q&A with DMNS curator Joe Sertich

Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a pterosaur! A what? When we think of prehistoric flying things, it's usually the more well-known feathered dinosaurs, such as archeopteryx, that we conjure in our minds. But the pterosaur, which reached unbelievable sizes and was related more ... More >>

Jurassic Parts

Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a pterosaur! A what? When we think of prehistoric flying things, it's usually the more well-known feathered dinosaurs, such as archeopteryx, that we conjure in our minds. But the pterosaur, which reached unbelievable sizes and was related more ... More >>

T. rex, O.G.

Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a pterosaur! A what? When we think of prehistoric flying things, it's usually the more well-known feathered dinosaurs, such as archeopteryx, that we conjure in our minds. But the pterosaur, which reached unbelievable sizes and was related more ... More >>

Dino-bots! A preview of the T. Rex Encounter at DMNS

​The first thing you're going to want to do when you walk into the T. Rex Encounter exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, is run up to the gigantic, robotic Tyrannosaurus rex. The problem is, the second you do that, the T. rex will roar at you and despite the f ... More >>

The War Next Door

Rich in history and imperiled species, Pinon Canyon isn't like any other place on earth. Locals fear that the Army wants to tear the hell out of it.

100 Colorado Creatives: Dana Cain

Dana Cain: A glittering rainbow-avalanche of arts.​If the overarching Colorado arts scene is like an awesome picture of a unicorn galloping across a rainbow -- and we're going to go ahead and say that it is -- then Dana Cain is like the glitter: essential. A tireless arts cheerleader and all a ... More >>

3OH!3: My first Live with Regis and Kelly appearance went a little like this.

Live! with Regis and Kelly? Naw. We're good. Not that anybody's asking us, but if they were, we'd have to take a pass. That's just us, though. What do we know? Hell, it was probably pretty cool to meet someone who was actually around when dinosaurs roamed the earth (just joshing there, Reeg), and ... More >>

Michael Bublé stalked by a velociraptor?

Our world is full of inexplicable things. Things like the appeal of Michael Bublé. Seriously, can anyone explain his appeal to us? But once you simply stop questioning and accept that yes, somehow Michael Bublé is stupidly famous and getting rich off recording crap adult contemporary pop tunes a ... More >>

Meet George Callison, who helped discover a tiny dinosaur named after... Fruita?

George Callison could use a dinosaur to pose for him.​That old cliche about good things coming to those who wait is certainly true in George Callison's case. Today, Callison is a happy retiree living in the Grand Junction area, where he spends his free time painting landscapes; check out his ... More >>

Invisible Orange

Iron Mountain
Self-released

Paleontology rules Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

Iron Mountain
Self-released

Do the Dinosaur

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science brings in an age-old exhibit.

Sea Monsters

Wildlife Experience

Walking Large

Wildlife Experience

Them Bones

Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

Bad Wizard

Saturday, August 5, Marquis Theatre, 303-298-0900.

Beyond Belief

Buntport's Realism: The Mythical Brontosaurus teases out the truth.

The Hives

Tyrannosaurus Hives (Interscope)

Best Golf Course

Fossil Trace

Dino Might

The prehistoric World Tour arrives to rock Denver

Incoming!

Compulsive finder Kent Hups is hot on the trail of a mega-meteorite.

Best Look Back

Ancient Denvers
Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Best Dinosaur Detective

Ken Carpenter
Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 31, 2002

A Dino-Porn-Free Zone

Get the real lay of Colorado’s prehistoric landscape via this way-way-back exhibit.

Best Place to Find Fossils

Florissant Fossil Quarry

Best Place to Dig Your Own Dinosaur

Dinosaur Excavations

Bones of Contention

Finding Barnum was hard enough. But to excavate the intrigue around the prize T. rex, you must dig deeper.

Best Dinosaur Tracks --Indoors

St. Cajetan Event Center

Best Dinosaur Tracks --Outdoors

Dinosaur Ridge

Where Dinosaurs Rule

Both adults and children will be enchanted by The Dinosaur Play.

Best dinosaur

Cedarosaurus weiskopfae -- Weiskopf's Cedar-reptile

Deranged in the Mesozoic

The Disney formula goes disturbingly awry in the off-putting Dinosaur.

Trolling Motors

The Disney formula goes disturbingly awry in the off-putting Dinosaur.

Skeletons in Their Closet

The feds had a bone to pick with this fossil-hunting family.

Extinct Possibilities

Once Gary Staab found his calling, the rest was pre-history.