Teeth started outside.
Then, Australia’s ABC Science tells us, they gradually moved inside our mouths: The study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, supports what is known […]
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Dinosaur migration
Must’ve been something to see. The Telegraph gives a new picture of what it was like when hundreds of dinosaurs went a-walking: The journey would […]
T-rex hungrier, bigger than thought.
So time travelers, don’t say we didn’t warn you. Reuters reports that the king of carnivores was even fiercer than we imagined: Using three-dimensional laser […]
Lair of the kraken.
PhysOrg uncovers tantalizing traces of terrifying prehistoric predator – a giant squid that hunted ichthyosaurs: But the fossils at the [Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada] […]
Today’s science-crime police blotter…
Dateline: Washington state. 3news reports on a paleontological poacher pinched purloining a prehistoric proto-pig: A Longview, Washington, man accused of digging up the skull of […]
DIY dinosaur. (A chicken comes first.)
Then, Wired tells us, comes a dinosaur egg. At least that’s one paleontological plan to flip the genetic switches separating “chicken” from “dinosaur”: Jack Horner […]
Science Art: Laggania cambria, statue by Espen Horn (photo by H. Zell)
Click to embiggen This is an anomalocaridid – a really big, really old shrimp-like critter – named Laggania cambria. These were as big as it […]
Buck-toothed demon.
Yeah, National Geographic is really helping paleontologists rehabilitate the popular image of dinosaurs as mindless killers with the latest… well… actually, I guess the blame […]
Mass Extinction #6
The death of the dinosaurs was just a drop in the bucket compared to some of the real mass extinction events out there. And PhysOrg […]
Sex, 40 million B.C.
The book of love might be rewritten by each generation, but the pictures don’t change much. So MSNBC proves with its personal look at an […]
Mother and child, 100 million B.C.
BBC paints a sweet, fossilized portrait of pterosaur family life: A pterosaur has been found in China beautifully preserved with an egg. The egg indicates […]
A gentler Eoraptor
Nature breaks the news to us that small, fierce prehistoric predator Eoraptor – the “dawn-predator” – might have been a plant-eater all along: Many palaeontologists […]
Combat wings
Beaks, sure. Talons? Terrifying. But how about Eurekalert.org’s report on prehistoric birds using their wings as clubs: “No animal has ever evolved anything quite like […]
Hobbit-eating storks.
I bet they tasted better than babies. Discovery explores the frankly terrifying implications of a new fossil discovery: Named Leptoptilos robustus, this newly discovered stork […]
Science Art: Arsinoitherium, by Heinrich Harder
Click to embiggen slightly This big fellow is Arsinoitherium, a prehistoric swamp monster related to elephants and hyraxes. Those horns were once believed to be […]