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Everybody is familiar with the dinosaur Tryannosaurus rex, but did you know that it was a tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid tyrannosauroid? It's true, and you really did read that last line correctly.

It is not often that somebody gets to name a dinosaur. Robert M. Sullivan, senior curator of paleontology and geology at The State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg recently got that chance. He ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American You had no reason to expect a good weekend as ...