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 […]
paleontology
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 […]
Prehistoric dolphin had a big head.
Really. Check out what the BBC says about our one-time balloon-headed neighbor to the seas: A new type of dolphin with a short, spoon-shaped nose […]
SONG: Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)
SONG: “Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “36 million-year-old penguin was five […]
Red Super-penguin
io9.com explores the prehistoric majesty of the man-sized super-penguin: The fossil was discovered in Peru and has been classified as Inkayacu paracasensis, but its less […]
Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.
Click to embiggen slightly This is Geosaurus, recently outed in the pages of Discovery News as “the T. Rex of the deep”: What’s more, metriorhynchids, […]
Humpbacked weirdosaur.
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 strange-looking […]
Science Art: Triceratops-Eotriceratops size 02, by Conty.
Click to embiggen Image from Wikimedia Commons, where it soon might be deleted for making the Eotriceratops too large. They always seem to put the […]
Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!
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 […]
Fare thee well, Triceratops.
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 […]
Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.
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 […]
Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.
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 […]
We’re gonna need a bigger boat. MUCH bigger.
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 […]
Dinosaur incubators.
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 […]
Look! It’s a… Hey-a WHAT-ee?
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 […]