Slate examines the mysteries of the mass extinction that killed all the dinosaurs… except the birds:
… Read the rest “Not just an asteroid. What *else* killed the dinosaurs?”“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:
… Read the rest “Step one: obtain a 3,000-gallon iron cauldron.”Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his colleagues studied numerous Triceratops specimens
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 have survived? Well, New Scientist says, … Read the rest “Lake Vostok is still and lifeless. Perhaps.”
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 familiar… Read the rest “Science Art: Sordes by John Sibbick”
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) most… Read the rest “Science Art: Heidelberg Man, by Zdenek Burian.”
EurekAlert goes back 230 million years to uncover the most ancient arthropods ever found:
… Read the rest “Oldest insects ever.”The amber droplets, most between 2-6 millimeters long, were buried in outcrops high in the Dolomite
The Bangkok Post unearths the forgotten past of the lush, humid Antarctic jungle:
… Read the rest “Antarctic rainforest ready to be reborn.”The study of sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off Antarctica’s east coast revealed fossil
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 tell you how Neanderthals lived – and … Read the rest “Uncovering the medical secrets of our past… through dentistry.”
We’ve featured prehistoric illustrator Charles L. Knight on these pages before.
While he’s best known for his dinosaur portraiture, here he moved a little… Read the rest “Science Art: Le Moustier Neanderthals, by Charles L. Knight.”
PhysOrg greets our oldest known ancestor – a very special worm:
… Read the rest “Grampa Worm!”Researchers from the University of Cambridge, University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have confirmed
Science Daily tries to figure out what the Greek gorilla or Austrian orangutan were really like:
… Read the rest “The Great Apes of Europe.”To date scientists have assumed that great apes went extinct in Europe at least 9 million
Oh, tetrapod. How Science Daily says you’ve changed. The first walkers, they’re saying, may have had more to do with floods than droughts:
… Read the rest “A closer look at fish feet.”University of Oregon scientist
Physorg hearkens to the growing thunder of massive, woolly feet as Japanese and Russian researchers declare they’re one step closer to bringing mammoths back:
… Read the rest “Closer to a cloned mammoth.”Teams from the Sakha
Then, Australia’s ABC Science tells us, they gradually moved inside our mouths:
… Read the rest “Teeth started outside.”The study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, supports what is known as the “outside-in”
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