Topic: American Museum of Natural History

Remains of Deadly Dinosaur Found

Around 70 million years ago a stocky dragon stalked what is now Romania. . A new type of dinosaur similar to the frightening Velociraptor -- but ...
The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given researchers a window into what European ...

Balaur bondoc: Dragon dinosaur

One of the questions that truly baffled paleontologists for generations is the ancient question: "What did the Late Cretaceous predatory dinosaurs...
A deadly, heavier relative of Velociraptor, which had twice as many giant sickle-like claws on its feet and was more of a kickboxer than its famous...

'Glee,' 'Top Chef' do NYC

New York is turning into the center of the universe again -- at least for two hit TV shows. . . "Glee" will spend its entire second season in the...
Chunyi Shi and Kim Schoenfeld prepared for weeks to answer just about any question young American Museum of Natural History visitors might come up...
Fresh off the tipline: Not only is the next season of Top Chef taking place in New York City, the Bravo folks are shooting something right now (the...
New predator dinosaur found in Romania with 2 deadly ripping claws on each footAround 70 million years ago a stocky dragon stalked what is now Romania.A new type of dinosaur similar to the frightening Velociraptor — but with two sharp claws on ...

Giant, dog-sized rat documented in East Timor

Australian archaeologists have documented the remains of ancient giant rats the size of small dogs which were discovered in a remote East Timorese cave.Ken Aplin of government science agency CSIRO said the rats, detailed in the Bulletin of the American Mu
Extreme science: NYC museum spotlights biggest, smallest, strangest extinct and living mammalsNot all mammals are created equal.The largest land mammal that ever existed was 15 feet tall, while the tiniest was just 1.6 inches. Some hop, burrow underground