Vertebrate paleontology has always inspired scientific and political debates. Humans have been fascinated with discoveries of ancient, and sometimes bizarre, animals that reflect Earth's history. No recent event has produced as much controversy...

Tyrannosaurus (pronounced /tɨˌrænəˈsɔrəs/ or /taɪˌrænoʊˈsɔrəs/, meaning 'tyrant lizard') is a genus of theropod dinosaur. The famous species Tyrannosaurus rex, commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture around the...

"Abra Cadaver," which opens "Tyrannosaurus Hives," begins in mid- thrash, as if the Hives couldn't wait for the tape to start rolling. That swaggering impatience is the principal attraction of the Hives, a Swedish quintet that supercharges '60s Anglo-American garage-rock. The constituent parts of...

Tyrannosaurus Sue by Steve Fiffer. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York. 236 pages; 2000; $24.95 (hardbound). Recalling the onset of the May 1992 federal raid on South Dakota's Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, commercial paleontologist Peter Larson quotes an invading...

Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric "monster" reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday.Initial excavation of a site on the Svalbard islands in August yielded the remains, teeth, skull fragments and vertebrae of...

The skull of a large carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a shaggy-coated mammoth from the Ice Age sold for a combined $372,000 at a natural history auction Sunday, auction officials said.The auction, which also featured a meteorite and other items, brought in a total...