A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, which is to say, a … Read the rest “Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851”
Popular Mechanics celebrates a new *double* record-breaker, a dinosaur bigger than anything that walked the Earth:
… Read the rest “What do you call a dinosaur that isn’t afraid of anything? Dreadnoughtus.”Today an international team of paleontologists unveiled the newest
A prehistoric worm with claws, says Live Science, has rewritten the origin story of crabs, spiders and mosquitos:
… Read the rest “Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.”According to a new study of the creatures’ odd claws, Hallucigenia
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SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally… Read the rest “SONG: “Step Into The Sky””
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets:
… Read the rest “Unbrushed teeth left a message for the future”The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic site on the White
Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings?
… Read the rest “A: Prehistory’s largest micro-raptor. (Four wings!)”Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from the Early Cretaceous
PbysOrg looks back into the distant past, when tiny shrimp left behind sperm longer than their bodies:
… Read the rest “What’s that a fossil of? Oh, just giant sperm.”The giant sperm are thought to have been longer than the male’s entire body,
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This eerie vision of an alien, ancient world greeted those who opened the front cover of W.F.A. Zimmerman’s Le monde avant la creation de l’homme, “the… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.”
BBC has the full story on a 75 million-year-old giant sea turtle fossil that took a century and a half to put together:
… Read the rest “Fossil bones rejoined after 163 years apart”Atlantochelys mortoni was originally described from a broken arm bone,
Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million years. One guess: Our solar system passes through… Read the rest “Darker than Nemesis: Was it dark matter that killed the dinosaurs?”
The Tumblr illustrator Nix is having a paleoart February, creating a new illustration of a non-dinosaur, non-pterosaur prehistoric creature every day of the month.
This is the seventh… Read the rest “Science Art: Cotylorhynchus, by Nix”
Nature examines a DNA test on a “Clovis boy,” whose DNA proves that 12,000 years ago, the ancestors of today’s Native Americans were already here:
… Read the rest “Native Americans go back longer than we thought.”…[T]he boy’s
Here’s a little (calf-sized being “little” here) fella from the Triassic period (the first of the three periods of dinosaur rule on Earth, a few million… Read the rest “Science Art: Life restoration of Ischigualastia jenseni, by Smokeybjb”
This is a very old skull from a Stone Age mammal called Ovibos moschatus, as pictured in A monograph of the British pleistocene mammalia, a publication by W. Boyd Dawkins… Read the rest “Science Art: Occipital View of Skull of Ovibos Moschatus, by W. West & Co., 1866”
And now, Discovery News says, we know what he looked like – the early human ancestor who lived with the dinosaurs:
… Read the rest “Grandpa shrew lived with the dinosaurs.”This ancestor, the first placental mammal, lived between 88.3 to
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