Fossil excavation at golden hour
The history of discovery

Digging up a lost world.

Two hundred years ago, nobody knew dinosaurs had ever existed. This is the story of the people who found them — bone by bone.

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New species still described every year

The golden age is now

More dinosaurs have been named in the last twenty years than in the previous two centuries combined. The catalogue grows almost weekly — and we keep it current.

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