Barrett does just that in the new release from Smithsonian Books, A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils. Humans were awed by dinosaurs before we even had a name for them. Petroglyphs made by ...

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about ...

Aaron Boorstein was an intern with Smithsonian magazine. The 150-million-year-old dinosaur became the most ... discovery in a Polish library of 27 books that were thought to have been lost sheds ...