T-Rex sized, in fact: Researchers in China have unearthed the bones of a gigantic bird-like dinosaur, dwarfing anything else in its category. Alive, the beast is thought to have been 8 metres long, 3.5 metres high at the hip and 1,400 kilograms in weight — 35 times as heavy as its next largest family members […]

Lots of blogs do a cooking feature on Friday, so I think it’s high time we started. Please let me know which of the following Speculicious dishes you would be interested in reading about, or feel free to suggest one of your own: T-Rex and Dumplings Diplodocus a la King Sweet and Sour Triceratops Compsognathus […]

Dinosaur meat, that is: After 68 million years in the ground, a Tyrannosaurus rex found in Montana was dug up, its leg bone was broken in pieces, and fragments were dissolved in acid in Schweitzer’s laboratory at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. “Cool beans,” she says, looking at the image on the screen. It […]