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In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!

Kids took the OLogy Challenge and shared their work with us!

The largest mammal at the Museum is interviewed by the largest dinosaur

In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!

In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!
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About 80 million years ago, the carnivorous Velociraptor and the plant eating Protoceratops fought to the death.

Paleontologist Mark Norell answers kids’ questions.

In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!

Match up these eight dinosaur fossil photos with their descriptions.

Learn how to look at a bunch of bones and draw what a dinosaur looked like. 

How much do you know about the Age of Dinosaurs? 
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Effigia looks just like a dinosaur. It particularly looks a lot like bird-like dinosaurs called ornithomimids, or ostric...
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This primitive armored dinosaur had bony plates and spikes that served almost like armor.
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This is one of the oldest known dinosaurs!

What is it like to hunt for dinosaur fossils? And what discoveries are made back in the lab?
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The name Jurassic conjures images of tremendous dinosaurs roaming the Earth.
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This horned dinosaur had two long spikes on the back of its frill, the bony extension behind its skull.

About 80 million years ago two dinosaurs were locked in deadly combat when they were suddenly buried alive. See one of the greatest fossil specimens ever found.
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This real-life "Indiana Jones" led the first AMNH expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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This fossilized skull was recently discovered at Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi Desert. It is probably from a new kind of dino...
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When the famous Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North America, a very similar dinosaur was living on the other side of the Eart...
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Of all the dinosaurs to roam the Earth, the largest ones belonged to a group called sauropods- huge plant-eating dinosau...
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His love of natural sciences and extreme camping led this scientist to paleontology.
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In the 1940s, paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History discovered rich fossil beds in the high desert...
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About 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, this armored plant-eater roamed the Gobi Desert in Central Asia....
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Named in 2000, this dinosaur is hot off the "paleo" presses! Unlike the jagged teeth of other troodontids, Byronosaurus ...
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Dug up in the Alxa Desert in China, this is the oldest and most complete therizinosaur ever found.
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One of the earlier dinosaurs to appear on Earth was Coelophysis. It was a small, but skilled hunter that lived during th...
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This plant-eating dinosaur was an ornithopod, as are duck-bill dinosaurs. 
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With its bird-like features, this animal was mistaken for a giant bird for a while.
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Museum scientists made a surprising discovery in the Gobi Desert: an egg that contained the remains of a tiny dinosaur e...
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Paleontologists uncovered this just-hatched Protoceratops in 1997 at Ukhaa Tolgod.
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Earth was a very different place at the beginning of the Triassic. All of Earth's continents were combined into one supe...
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To try to piece together how organisms are related, scientists use cladistics.
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Many famous dinosaurs, such as T. rex and Triceratops, first appeared in the Cretaceous Period.
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Its brow horns and snout horn inspired this dinosaur's name, which means "three-horned face."
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About 80 million years ago in the Gobi Desert, sixteen dinosaurs hatched in this nest. One of the hatchlings died before...
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This famous long-necked, long-tailed wonder belongs to a group called "sauropods." 
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This massive plant-eater lived about 100 million years ago. Today, a cast of this 122-foot long titanosaur welcomes visi...
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Oviraptor was a bizarre-looking, toothless dinosaur. 
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Psittacosaurus is one of the oldest and most primitive ceratopians ever found!
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Craters are formed when objects from space crash onto a planet's surface. The impact blasts a hole or impression where t...
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Confuciusornis is the earliest-known toothless, beaked bird.
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This theropod belonged to a group called ornithomimids, also called "ostrich-mimics." 
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Sterling was always fascinated by nature, ancient history, and archaeology. Since he was 15 years old, he has spent ever...
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Compared to other titanosaurs, Gondwanatitan was a peewee at only about 7.5 meters (25 feet) long. 
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Flashback to 80 million years ago in the Gobi Desert. Deltatheridium scurried among dinosaurs.
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This plant-eating dinosaur might have weighed as much as 225 kilograms (500 pounds)!
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This "king tyrant lizard" was one of the largest carnivores that ever lived.
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This predator has fast feet, a pair of "killing claws," and more than 60 jagged teeth!
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A dinosaur book led to this paleontologist's lifelong fascination with fossils.
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In 1938, fishermen off the east coast of Africa pulled up a strange creature in their nets.
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As you can tell from its body plates and tail spikes, this dinosaur is related to Stegosaurus. 
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In college, Rob DeSalle wanted to study the narwhal, an Arctic whale with an eight-foot spiral tooth.
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Carefully removing the fossils without damaging them takes talent, special tools, and lots of patience. 
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In the 1920s, the first team of Museum paleontologists trekked to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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This prehistoric relative of living ducks had a long neck, tall legs, webbed feet, and a duck-like head.
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This living dinosaur is also known by its common name, the Martineta tinamou. 
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This rare lizard lived in the Gobi Desert about 80 million years ago. 
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This extinct bird weighed over 330 pounds and had heavy legs and tiny wings. 
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Unlike modern reptiles, pterosaurs weren't covered in scales. They were covered in fuzz! Pterosaurs kept warm with a thi...
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Sauropods weren't just the largest dinosaurs. They were also the largest animals to ever live on land. The sauropod Mame...
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Because of the diamond-shaped plates on its back, Stegosaurus was given a name that means "roof lizard." 
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Long before dinosaurs, these strange roach-like creatures scurried along the ancient sea floor.
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Think today’s great white shark is scary? Megalodon was three times as long!
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Although extinct today, this gopher-sized mammal thrived during the Mesozoic Era for about two million years.
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For Steve Quinn, art and science have always gone hand-in-hand. As a kid, he liked to draw and make clay models of dinos...
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Did you ever see a "shooting star"? What you really saw was a meteor burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Located in the Gobi Desert, this is a fossil "hot spot" for Museum paleontologists. 
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Clones are plants and animals that have more than just their looks in common; they also have the exact same DNA sequence...
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The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth.
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The first vertebrates to fly took to the skies about 215 million years ago. These creatures were neither birds nor bats....
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One look at Redondasaurus, and you might think it's a crocodile. After all, it has a similar long, armored body, with a ...
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These rocks provide the most clues about the history of life on Earth. 
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Guatemala is located in Central America. It sits south of Mexico and northwest of El Salvador and Honduras.
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Throughout history, many cultures have told of mythic creatures of enormous size. The cyclopes are some of the most famo...
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Scientists have identified over 1.75 million species on Earth -- over one million of them are insects and spiders.