Stories by Stephen Brusatte

They scurried in the shadows of dinosaurs for millions of years until a killer space rock created a new world of evolutionary opportunity

Edinburgh University paleontologist Steve Brusatte talks about his May 2018 Scientific American article, "The Unlikely Triumph of the Dinosaurs," and his new book, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World.

New fossils and analyses topple the long-standing explanation of how dinosaurs came to rule the earth

New fossils put T. rex in its place

A remarkable fossil record of the dinosaurs that led to birds reveals how evolution produces entirely new kinds of organisms

Recent fossil discoveries reveal that evolution began laying the groundwork for their rise to world domination long before the dinosaur-killing asteroid cleared the playing field

There's a prime suspect in both cases, but was there a second gunman on the grassy knoll?

Fossil suggests that T. rex got smart before it got big

The asteroid strike was bad. The timing was worse

Real velociraptors hardly resembled the huge scaly lizards shown in Jurassic World

Hint: it took chain saws, feathers and lots of latex, says vertebrate palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Brusatte

New fossils put T. rex in its place