New Scientist tries to keep some perspective about our great-great-etc. grandfather, Ursolestes, a prehistoric primate who might seem to us, a squirrel monkey. To dinosaurs, […]
Click to embiggen My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all […]
Click to embiggen vastly Quoting here from Oudemans’ book: In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the […]
Click to embiggen slightly A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, […]
Popular Mechanics celebrates a new *double* record-breaker, a dinosaur bigger than anything that walked the Earth: 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: According to a new study of the […]
SONG: “Step Into The Sky.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering […]
Science Daily has more on the prehistoric plaque that’s teaching us about our ancestors’ diets: The research was carried out at Al Khiday, a pre-historic […]
Q (from Nature): What’s 100 cm long, has long feathers and flew with four wings? Here we describe a new ‘four-winged’ microraptorine, Changyuraptor yangi, from […]
PbysOrg looks back into the distant past, when tiny shrimp left behind sperm longer than their bodies: The giant sperm are thought to have been […]
Click to embiggen 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 […]
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: Atlantochelys mortoni […]
Nature tries to see what was behind the comet that killed the dinosaurs – and other mass extinctions that seem to happen every 35 million […]
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 […]
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: […]
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