Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink: “It is difficult to imagine […]
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The Crocodillo
I can’t figure out why something like this wouldn’t have survived pretty much anything. National Geographic reports on the discovery of an armored, omnivorous, desert-dwelling […]
Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)
Click to embiggen vastly This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches […]
Big fish! Hungry fish!
You may have heard of the giant prehistoric shark called megalodon. And maybe other megafauna, like Megalosaurus or even the mighty mechanical Megasaurus. But LiveScience […]
We’ll go a-waltzing….
Australian researchers have just discovered a trio of never-before-seen dinosaurs in the Winton Formation. Two of them died at the bottom of one of those […]
SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (penitential Mountain Goats cover)
SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by The Mountain Goats. SOURCE: This is a […]
Crunchasaurus?
PhysOrg ventures into the vast Gobi Desert to reveal a historical find – the fossilized remains of the first confirmed nut-eating dinosaur: Larger, more numerous […]
Hobbit feet.
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet: The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, […]
Scratch that asteroid.
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have […]
Beauty before flight?
You might think flying is an impressive enough goal for any creature, but the Telegraph reveals new clues that dinosaurs may have evolved wings to […]
Science Art: Ammonit-internal-xx_hg, by Hannes Grobe.
Click to embiggen vastly A partially polished ammonite fossil. At one point in history, these guys ruled the world. A few million years ago, there […]
Hurdia victoria: SHRIMPZILLA!
PhysOrg once again brings prehistoric monsters to life: Although the first fragments were described nearly one hundred years ago, they were assumed to be part […]
Pleistocence Park?
Not dinosaurs, but mammoths. I’d like to ride a mammoth. Wouldn’t you? New Scientist teases us with the possibility we can soon ride mammoths… or […]
Science Art: Allosaurus, by Charles R. Knight
Click to embiggen Charles R. Knight is a scientific illustrator more people need to know about. A paleoartist, even. He brought dinosaurs (and other things) […]
The Egg. The Egg Came First.
Canadian paleontologists have answered the old conundrum by closely studying a fossilized dinosaur nest: LiveScience.com, via Yahoo! News: …[I]nterpreted literally, the answer to the riddle […]