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Blogger Brian Switek at Eccles Dinosaur Park

In our “Dinosaur Tracking” blog, we’ll delve into everyone’s favorite extinct animal group and the lost worlds they so nobly inhabited. We’ll post about paleontology news, dig into the latest controversies about how dinosaurs lived (and died), revisit the great fossil discoveries and peer over the shoulders of fossil hunters piecing together the grand scientific story of the Dinosauria. We’ll also delve into dinosaurs in popular culture, including comics, film, television, advertisements and everyday life.

Have you stumbled across a dinosaur in an unexpected place? If you have, and have a photo of the encounter, send it to us via dinosaursightings@gmail.com!

Dinosaur Tracking is written by freelance science writer Brian Switek, who is currently a Research Associate at the New Jersey State Museum. He is the author of the book Written in Stone, to be published by Bellevue Literary Press in November 2010.