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 ...

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 ...

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 ...