Long-form dinosaur science from a paleontologist. New research, fossil discoveries, and the questions paleontology is still arguing about, all explained without the academic register.
The Journal is the long-form writing arm of Daily Dino Guy, written by paleontologist Evan Jevnikar.Most dinosaur writing online is one of two things: thin listicles for kids, or dense journal papers for specialists. The Journal is the third thing. Every article here is written by Evan Jevnikar, a paleontologist with a Master's in Biological Sciences from NC State, and every one is built to do the same job: take real paleontology, including the parts the field is still arguing about, and explain it clearly enough that a curious adult walks away actually understanding it. New articles cover fossil discoveries, dinosaur science, mass extinction and climate, and the questions readers ask most.
A paleontologist walks through the evidence, the debate, and where the science stands now on one of the most contested questions in tyrannosaur biology.
Read the article →The species deep-dives. T. rex, Nanotyrannus, Fona, and the rest of the cast.
Recent paleontology research and the fossils rewriting what we thought we knew.
Deep-time resilience, mass extinctions, and what 250 million years of biology can teach us today.
Process explainers: how fossils are dated, how dig sites work, how we know what we know.
First-person dispatches from the dig site. Heat, dust, and the occasional bone nobody has seen in 66 million years.
The Q&A archive. Real questions from real readers, answered at length.
The evidence, the debate, and where the science stands in 2026 on one of paleontology's most contested questions.
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Five mass extinctions, one survivor strategy, what the fossil record actually says about climate adaptation.
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How a small Cretaceous herbivore from Utah is rewriting our assumptions about how dinosaurs lived underground.
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