paleontology

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.”

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)

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

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,

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

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.”

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,

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

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

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