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 […]
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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 […]
Road workers discover four whales. (One very scary one.)
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 […]
Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?
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 […]
Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.
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 […]
Lake Vostok is still and lifeless. Perhaps.
You remember Lake Vostok, yes? The Antarctic lake where scientists pulled up some water from 20 million years ago, just to see what things might […]
Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick
A prehistoric non-bird, found via Scientific Illustration. (Not to be mistaken for the rather unpleasant crusts on the mouths of fever sufferers.) If there’s something […]
Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.
That’s Homo heidelbergensis stopping for a quick sip of water, as imagined by Zdenek Burian. Zdenek Burian was possibly Eastern Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) […]
Oldest insects ever.
EurekAlert goes back 230 million years to uncover the most ancient arthropods ever found: The amber droplets, most between 2-6 millimeters long, were buried in […]
Antarctic rainforest ready to be reborn.
The Bangkok Post unearths the forgotten past of the lush, humid Antarctic jungle: The study of sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off Antarctica’s […]
Uncovering the medical secrets of our past… through dentistry.
New Scientist takes a shine to the science of archaeo-dentistry… OK, I made that name up. But there really are experts out there who can […]
Science Art: Fig. 4, Sketch of skull of Desmatochelys lowi, from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960.
A sea turtle from the end of the age of dinosaurs. Image from Fieldiana: Geology, Vol. 14, 1960
Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.
Click to embiggen We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before. While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved […]
Grampa Worm!
PhysOrg greets our oldest known ancestor – a very special worm: Researchers from the University of Cambridge, University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum […]
The Great Apes of Europe.
Science Daily tries to figure out what the Greek gorilla or Austrian orangutan were really like: To date scientists have assumed that great apes went […]