As part of a series called My Big Break, All Things Considered is collecting stories of triumph, big and small. These are the moments when everything seems to click, and people leap forward into their ...

Tyrannosaurus rex, take a seat. You may be a vicious bone-crusher, a top-of-the-food-chain legend and even an accomplished thespian, but you'd have to look up at the Giganotosaurus, a carnivore so ...

Don Lessem had one thought when he saw photos of Giganotosaurus at a scientific conference: Children would be fascinated by this newly discovered meat-eater, believed to be bigger and badder than the ...

The skull of a restored Giganotosaurus skeleton (cast), photographed at the Maryland Science Center. The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It With ...

She is 32.8 feet long. She weighs more than 8,800 pounds. She has a 7-foot long neck, complete with spines. She was probably an herbivore, and most likely swallowed her ferns and gingkos whole, due to ...

It was the shoulder blade that really got to Bill Bevil — a synthesized bone that’s bigger than a Volkswagen. “When you actually see it, it’s quite stunning,” said Bevil, exhibit manager for Atlanta’s ...

She is 32.8 feet long. She weighs more than 8,800 pounds. She has a 7-foot long neck, complete with spines. She was probably an herbivore, and most likely swallowed her ferns and gingkos whole, due to ...