YaleNews has a story about the latest issue of National Geographic. The cover has a Deinonychus, discovered in the 1960 by Yale paleotologist John Ostrom. This web page on the National Geographic site has links to numerous stories about recent dinosaur discoveries. It includes the lead story in this issue of the magazine... "Reimagining Dinosaurs".
The latest cover of National Geographic magazine features a Yale discovery that stretches back … oh, about 115 million years.
Deinonychus, a Cretaceous Period raptor that Yale paleontologist John Ostrom identified in the 1960s, peers at readers with a menacing eye while guarding a nest of blue-green eggs. A hatchling covered in feathery fuzz gazes up from below its father, who wields distinctive sickle-shaped claws.
Crowned with feathers, the prehistoric beast makes a fitting — if frightening — cover model for the issue’s lead story, which highlights a few of the latest discoveries by scientists at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History that, like Deinonychus, help us reimagine how dinosaurs looked and lived.