Discover Magazine asked me to tell them the basics of dinosaur evolution and to give them a whirlwind tour of the dinosaur family tree.

In a study of predatory dinosaur limb proportions, I look to see what groups were the most adapted for speed.

I sit down for a chat with the podcast I Know Dino. We shoot the breeze on comparative anatomy, recent fieldwork finds, fossil stomach contents, and dinosaur video games.

If carnivorous dinosaurs could have an Olympic sprint team, here are the beasts that I think would make the cut.

A short interview with the folks at Mind Fuel about the “Cool Career” of paleontology. 

When I was 2 ½, my father read me a story called “The Big Little Dinosaur”, and that was that

The Paleon Museum, in Glenrock Wyoming, will always have a special place in my heart. So too will this tyrannosaur trackway.

To keep their big sickle foot-claw sharp, Velociraptor and its relatives walked with one toe raised. Thanks to this unusual trait, a new trackway has been identified as the trail of a raptor.

Preserved together in the ancient sands of Mongolia, a pair or oviraptorosaurs were given the poetic nickname of “Romeo and Juliet”. But that title might be more apt than was first thought.

Before any dinosaur could fly, coverings of simple feathers helped to insulate body heat. But before that, the very first feathers might have acted like whiskers.

In 2014, the History Canada Channel filmed the series Dino Hunt Canada, which followed major digs across Canada, including Dr. Currie’s sites in Grande Prairie and Dinosaur Provincial Park.

With no armor, no horns, and much shorter legs than their tyrannosaur predators, hadrosaurs would seem to have been sitting ducks. But I think the secret to the group’s survival may have been their adaptations for endurance.

In 2014, I curated the Discovering Dinosaurs exhibit for the University of Alberta museums.

My research was featured in – and on the cover of – the University of Alberta’s New Trail magazine.

A new specimen of the four-winged dinosaur Microraptor includes fossil stomach contents. What was this little predator’s last meal? Fish!

A new fossil trackway in China reveals a dinosaur scratching the sandy bottom as it goes for a swim.

For the release of Jurassic Park 3D, I discussed the science and legacy of Spielberg’s classic film.

Beginning in 2011, I volunteered with the University of Alberta museums’ Science Sundays. With the help of the U of A Zoology collection, I taught kids how to be “Bone Detectives” and explored the wonders of insectivores.

New fossils from the Gobi Desert indicate that tail feather-fans were widespread among oviraptorosaurs. Analysis of the unique form of oviraptorosaur tails indicates that they were also uniquely adapted for flexibility and muscular dexterity.