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Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.

3 October 2010 grant b 0



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This is Geosaurus, recently outed in the pages of Discovery News as “the T. Rex of the deep”:

What’s more, metriorhynchids, the extinct relatives

… Read the rest “Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.”

Humpbacked weirdosaur.

10 September 2010 grant b 0

There’s a great piece up at ScienceBlogs demonstrating how paleontology (and, even better, paleontological art) really works. It’s Darren Naish enthusing about a particularly… Read the rest “Humpbacked weirdosaur.”

Science Art: Triceratops-Eotriceratops size 02, by Conty.

22 August 2010 grant b 0



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Image from Wikimedia Commons, where it soon might be deleted for making the Eotriceratops too large.

They always seem to put the people at the wrong end.

Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!

20 August 2010 grant b 0

Science Daily assures us these shocking, primordial monsters are very real:

“This leaf shows clear signs of one well documented form of zombie-parasite, a fungus which infects

… Read the rest “Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!”

Fare thee well, Triceratops.

2 August 2010 grant b 0

They came for Pluto. They came for Brontosaurus. And now, BoingBoing reports, they’ve come for Triceratops:

maybe we should be calling it torosaurus now, I’m not sure. See,

… Read the rest “Fare thee well, Triceratops.”

Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.

12 July 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist steals my innocent view of humankind before the Industrial Revolution. It turns out we were probably messing up the climate in the Ice Age, too:

Last year, researchers at the

… Read the rest “Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.”

Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.

9 July 2010 grant b 0

Smithsonian reveals yet another secret talent from the original Renaissance man. He was a forefather of fossil science:

In a new paper in the journal Palaios, Andrea Baucon shows that he

… Read the rest “Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.”

We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.

6 July 2010 grant b 0

Fossil-hunters have found the remains of a creature they’re calling Melville’s Leviathan, AP reports. It’s a whale that, 12 million years ago, snacked on humpbacks… Read the rest “We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.”

Dinosaur incubators.

1 July 2010 grant b 0

Cold-blooded? Maybe. Warm-hearted? Definitely. Discover has the latest on how dinosaur moms used hot springs to keep the babies warm:

In the Cretaceous period over a hundred million years

… Read the rest “Dinosaur incubators.”

Look! It’s a… Hey-a WHAT-ee?

26 May 2010 grant b 0

UPenn paleontologists have named a whole new kind of dinosaur:

The dinosaur, whose name translates to mean “grinding-mouth, wrinkle-eye,” was most likely an herbivore that ate the ferns

… Read the rest “Look! It’s a… Hey-a WHAT-ee?”

Mammoth blood lives again.

12 May 2010 grant b 0

Science magazine brings us a step closer to a Pleistocene Park by reporting on the creation of living mammoth blood:

By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth gene into Escherichia

… Read the rest “Mammoth blood lives again.”

Comets made us icy.

5 April 2010 grant b 0

Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze:

Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each

… Read the rest “Comets made us icy.”

Snake eating dinosaurs.

3 March 2010 grant b 0

Not dinosaurs that eat snakes, Wired says, but snakes that paleontologists discovered eating dinosaurs:

But in 2001, University of Michigan paleontologist Jeff Wilson, took a second

… Read the rest “Snake eating dinosaurs.”

Cute little dinosaurs.

1 March 2010 grant b 0

Discovery News has the sweetest report on tiny pterosaurs flitting about with songbirds:

“I think that a group of small pterosaurs was feeding together near a pond or near a lake,”

… Read the rest “Cute little dinosaurs.”

Open Dinosaurs.

20 January 2010 grant b 1

You, yes YOU, dear reader, can be published as a paleontologist. That’s what Discovery News says about the Open Dinosaur Project, which is looking for a little bit of help from an awful… Read the rest “Open Dinosaurs.”

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