Grandpa shrew lived with the dinosaurs.
And now, Discovery News says, we know what he looked like – the early human ancestor who lived with the dinosaurs: This ancestor, the first […]
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Rarer than pterodactyl footprints…
Times of India reports that they’ve just found some pterosaur footprints in north India’s Jaisalmer Basin: “Near the Thaiyat Village on the Jaisalmer-Jodhpur highway there […]
SONG: “Like a Rooster at Dawn”
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Duck-billed dinosaur redrawn – because they had “rooster-like” combs.
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 […]
Mega-predator turkey ancestor discovered – a dinosaur that could chomp T. rex.
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 […]
SONG: “Kiss the Earth”
SONG: “Kiss the Earth” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest dinosaur takes first steps in 94 million […]
Dual dinosaurs don’t sell?
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 […]
World’s biggest dinosaur walks again.
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 […]
Bees that died with the dinosaurs
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 […]
Jaws. (As in what you eat with.) This fish had ’em first.
ABC (the Australian one) reveals a whale of a prehistoric puzzle piece – or at least a missing link that paleontologists have finally reeled in: […]
New fossil sheds light on one long-lasting group of mammals.
National Geographic explains why multituberculates – flexible, cute little pre-rodents – are so important. Before vanishing 35 million years ago, they’d been around for 130 […]
Science Art: Ceratosaurus & Dryosaurus in Carnegie Museum, photo by Kordite.
That’s a dryosaurus being hunted. Not a dysalotosaurus. Probably…. Photo from
SONG: “Inside My Eyes”
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A new way of looking at dinosaur brains.
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 […]
Science Art: Cephalaspis by John Dunn
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 […]