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The Big One -- Thomas the T. Rex -- Hits Los Angeles

He has arrived. Direct from southwestern Montana, meet Thomas the T-rex. Excavated between 2003-2005 by Dr. Luis Chiappe and his Dinosaur Institute team from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the 30-foot Thomas -- as well as a 20-foot juvenile T-rex and a 10-foot baby T-rex -- were the first dinosaurs to...

Cops: Man Humps Dinosaur in Park

Raul Martin, Universidad Nacional de Educacion/AFP/Getty Images

(Sept. 23) -- Days after Spanish researchers announced the discovery of a humpbacked dinosaur, police in Pennsylvania are searching for a man spotted humping a dinosaur. Law enforcement officials say a man exposed himself to two teenage girls in a park in Chester County on Sept. 19, then began "simulating a sex act with a...

Quasimodosaurus: Hunchback Dinosaur Is a Spine-Tingling Discovery

(Sept. 23) -- Move over, Quasimodo, a newly discovered dinosaur could become the biggest hunchback the world has ever known. Three Spanish paleontologists announced their discovery of Concavenator corcovatus -- which means "the hunchback hunter from Cuenca" -- in the journal Nature. The carnivorous dino lived about 130...

Bizarre New Dinosaur Species Found in Utah

Lukas Panzarin, Utah Museum of Natural History/AP

(Sept. 22) -- Scientists say they've found two new dinosaur species in Utah that are among the most bizarre and blinged out ever discovered. The Utah reptiles belong to the horned-dinosaur family, which is known for outlandish anatomy, and are wowing seasoned fossil hunters. Even the three-horned triceratops, the most...

Fark's Weird News Quiz (Drunken Paleontologists Edition)

(July 9) -- Editor's note: How well do you follow weird news? Find out with this strange-news quiz from our obsessive friends at Fark.com. Test your knowledge, and check your answers below. 1. In an effort to offer more creative vacation packages, one French company has added something unusual to the regular mix. What is...

Background on dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, approximately 230 million years ago, and became the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for 135 million years, from the beginning of the Jurassic (about 200 million years ago) until the end of the Cretaceous (65.5 million years ago), when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups at the close of the Mesozoic era.

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