PhysOrg reports on the discovery of a prehistoric predator who puts the terrifying dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to shame … a Chinese cousin of velociraptor who hunted the ancestors… Read the rest “A four-winged velociraptor hunted prehistoric birds”
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 veins that … Read the rest “The Earliest Emperor Butterfly”
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 of Paleontology”… Read the rest “SONG: Birds Are Digging”
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… Read the rest “School bus-sized spinosaur discovered”
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 in Tendaguru, Tanzania.
It’s… Read the rest “Science Art: Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, by H. Zell.”
NPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape what we know of life’s origins:
… Read the rest “Black South African digger becomes paleontology star”This is the story of how
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 phylum of life. It’s so different from animals,… Read the rest “Fossil reveals new *kingdom* of life.”
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 shade of orange that’s bright enough… Read the rest “Bright lichens reveal dino bones”
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 hunter was found with … Read the rest “Prehistoric Patagonian predator ate giant crocodiles”
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…”
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