PhysOrg redefines what “attractive” is for the deep-sea set, thanks to a study that has found male ghost sharks grow a retractable, tooth-covered rod out of their foreheads… Read the rest “Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.”
Cell reconstructs a prehistoric face, thanks to DNA analysis of an unusual skull that proved to be the first-known skull of a Denisovan, the other prehistoric human besides Neanderthals… Read the rest “Looking Denisovans in the face for the first time.”
This is a picture of a mesonychid, a family of prehistoric creatures known as “wolves with hooves.”
I got the idea to post this from a Bluesky post by Riley “Resting Dino… Read the rest “Science Art: Harpagolestes immanis, by Ryan Somma.”
For a long while, paleontologists have been trying to figure out what was up with Helmetia expansa, a prehistoric creature from before the dinosaurs that seemed like a crustacean but not.… Read the rest “A mysterious trilobite cousin deciphered.”
This is an image from one of the ages before dinosaurs. I found it by looking for Anomalocaris, which was a sort of terrifying sea predator that was something like an armored cuttlefish, or… Read the rest “Science Art: Reconstrucción de Tuzoia canadensis, con Anomalocaris atrás, 2022.”
Science Direct, or really, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has a study of very old craters that suggests that in the Ordovician period, around 460 million years ago or so, when trilobites… Read the rest “Maybe the Earth had a ring like Saturn once…”
A prehistoric pet. This is a mesolithic dog, same dog we know today more or less, Canis lupus familiaris, but about 9,300 years old.
It was found in an archaeological dig in Almeö, Sweden, … Read the rest “Science Art: Almeö Dog Skeleton, by Gunnar Creutz.”
Scientific American has new information on very old remains of Homo floresiensis, the diminutive prehistoric humans who lived on the island of Flores around 700,000 to 60,000 years ago.… Read the rest ““Hobbits” got smaller on their island.”
Here’s a horned dinosaur, or what’s left of one. I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but it was originally found in Utah, then written up in “New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah… Read the rest “Science Art: Skull reconstruction of Utahceratops gettyi, 2010.”
Yellowstone Public Radio has a piece on the grand-looking Lokiceratops rangiformes, unearthed in Montana and “unveiled” at the Natural History Museum of Utah:
… Read the rest “New species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur unveiled”Mark Loewen
This is a likeness of the southern bit of South America as it was near the end of the Cretaceous, right before the event that drove the dinosaurs to extinction. The Maastrichtian Age was a geologic… Read the rest “Science Art: Main floristic types from the Maastrichtian, F. Guillén, 2012.”
Science Daily has news of a child — child! — of 11 who discovered the fossilized bones, during a seaside walk in England, of a very big sea creature. It probably measured about… Read the rest “Damned big ichthyosaur.”
Styxosaurus is, or was, an elasmosaur – an undersea predator with a long neck and sharp teeth, all the better for grabbing ammonites and prehistoric fish for a quick snack. It takes… Read the rest “Science Art: Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.”
NPR, among other outlets, has reported on the discovery of a real Chinese dragon in this, the Year of the Dragon. At least, it’s certainly the remarkably complete fossil of a creature… Read the rest “Chinese dragon fossil discovered.”
Triops Galaxy reports on paleontological research into the biggest primate ever to walk the planet, the 600-pound Gigantopithecus blackii… without mentioning Bigfoot. Instead,… Read the rest “How the Bigfoot candidate went extinct.”
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