paleontology

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 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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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,”

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.”