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Duck-billed dinosaur redrawn – because they had “rooster-like” combs.

13 December 2013 grant 0

New Scientist imagines a fabulous new look for Edmontosaurus (the platypus of the dinosaur era) based on a new fossil finding – the duck-billed dinosaurs had combs like roosters… Read the rest “Duck-billed dinosaur redrawn – because they had “rooster-like” combs.”

Mega-predator turkey ancestor discovered – a dinosaur that could chomp T. rex.

27 November 2013 grant 0

Untamed Science has the skinny on Siats meekerorum, an early Cretaceous predator the size of a bus:

So imagine a world where the giant Siats is top dog, and ancestors of the T. rex (tyrannosaurs)

… Read the rest “Mega-predator turkey ancestor discovered – a dinosaur that could chomp T. rex.”

SONG: “Kiss the Earth”

24 November 2013 grant 0

SONG: “Kiss the Earth” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest dinosaur takes first steps… Read the rest “SONG: “Kiss the Earth””

Dual dinosaurs don’t sell?

20 November 2013 grant 0

Reuters carries the shocking story that a pair of precious paleontological predators just didn’t excite auction bidders:

Fossils of two dinosaurs locked in a death match failed

… Read the rest “Dual dinosaurs don’t sell?”

World’s biggest dinosaur walks again.

12 November 2013 grant 1

Digital Trends looks up in awe at the lumbering, prehistoric majesty of the mighty Argentinasaurus (virtual, 2.0 edition) taking its first steps:

When a group of scientists claimed the

… Read the rest “World’s biggest dinosaur walks again.”

Bees that died with the dinosaurs

1 November 2013 grant 0

Birds survived. The rest of the dinosaurs didn’t. And now, Science Daily says, some bees survived. But a heck of a lot of bees went extinct with the dinosaurs:

Lead author Sandra Rehan,

… Read the rest “Bees that died with the dinosaurs”

Jaws. (As in what you eat with.) This fish had ’em first.

26 September 2013 grant 0

ABC (the Australian one) reveals a whale of a prehistoric puzzle piece – or at least a missing link that paleontologists have finally reeled in:

A team of scientists, including an

… Read the rest “Jaws. (As in what you eat with.) This fish had ’em first.”

New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.

20 August 2013 grant 0

National Geographic explains why multituberculates – flexible, cute little pre-rodents – are so important. Before vanishing 35 million years ago, they’d been around… Read the rest “New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.”

Science Art: Ceratosaurus & Dryosaurus in Carnegie Museum, photo by Kordite.

23 June 2013 grant 0

800px-Ceratosaurus_&_Dryosaurus

That’s a dryosaurus being hunted. Not a dysalotosaurus. Probably….

Photo from the Wikimedia Commons.

SONG: “Inside My Eyes”

23 June 2013 grant 0

SONG: “Inside My Eyes” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “Fossil brain teaser: New study reveals patterns… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside My Eyes””

A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.

21 May 2013 grant 1

PhysOrg goes *inside* the skull to figure out how – and how quickly – a dinosaur’s brain developed:

Stephan Lautenschlager from Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences,

… Read the rest “A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.”

Science Art: Cephalaspis by John Dunn

24 February 2013 grant 0

cephalaspis_johndunn

A Devonian fish with a bony head.

That means it was swimming around hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs.

Found on the Scientific Illustration tumblog.

Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)

18 February 2013 grant 0

Not individual whales, but whole new species. Science has the details on the big, big discovery in California’s highway system:

“In California, you need a paleontologist and an

… Read the rest “Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)”

Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?

11 February 2013 grant 0

Slate examines the mysteries of the mass extinction that killed all the dinosaurs… except the birds:

“Dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid 65 million years ago” is now an indicator

… Read the rest “Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?”

Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.

26 October 2012 grant 0

Nature has a great pictorial guide called How to eat a Triceratops:

Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his colleagues studied numerous Triceratops specimens

… Read the rest “Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.”

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