SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale graveyard found in Indian Ocean off Australia”, ABC News (Australia), 10 […]
paleontology
Whale graveyard reveals unknown prehistoric species.
This has been in a few different sources, including Australia’s ABC News, but the crew of a scientific submersible celebrated discovering an active “whalefall” in […]
A four-winged velociraptor hunted prehistoric birds
PhysOrg reports on the discovery of a prehistoric predator who puts the terrifying dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to shame … a Chinese cousin of velociraptor […]
The Earliest Emperor Butterfly
IFL Science reports on the (beautiful) discovery of a (well-preserved) butterfly from 34 million years ago … a specimen with visible, identifiable wing patterns and […]
SONG: Birds Are Digging
SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “How A Black Fossil Digger Became a Superstar in the Very White World […]
School bus-sized spinosaur discovered
Last month, BBC’s Science Focus reported on an “astonishingly” large dinosaur discovered in the Sahara Desert of Niger — a bus-sized behemoth with a crescent-shaped […]
Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.
This is an image from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, a German natural history museum, where they have a skeleton of a stegosaurus relative unearthed […]
Black South African digger becomes paleontology star
NPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape […]
Fossil reveals new *kingdom* of life.
Science Adviser reports on the discovery (or rediscovery) of a fossil that is not just a new species, not just a new class, order, nor […]
Bright lichens reveal dino bones
Science News reports on a colorful breakthrough in dinosaur hunting, thanks to two lichen species that prefer to grow on dinosaur bones and are a […]
Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles
Reuters reports on a discover discovered in southern Argentina that apparently outdid T. rex and carnosaurus in its ferocity. A fossil of the colossal Cretaceous […]
Ghost sharks have teeth on their foreheads because it’s sexy.
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 […]
Looking Denisovans in the face for the first time.
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 […]
Science Art: Harpagolestes immanis, by Ryan Somma.
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 mysterious trilobite cousin deciphered.
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 […]