SONG: “Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “36… Read the rest “SONG: Might As Well Be (Considering Inkayacu paracasensis)”
io9.com explores the prehistoric majesty of the man-sized super-penguin:
… Read the rest “Red Super-penguin”The fossil was discovered in Peru and has been classified as Inkayacu paracasensis, but its less formal name
This is Geosaurus, recently outed in the pages of Discovery News as “the T. Rex of the deep”:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.”What’s more, metriorhynchids, the extinct relatives
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.”
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.
Science Daily assures us these shocking, primordial monsters are very real:
… Read the rest “Zombie ants from 48 million BC!!”“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:
… Read the rest “Fare thee well, 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:
… Read the rest “Humans: warming the globe for 15,000 years.”Last year, researchers at the
Smithsonian reveals yet another secret talent from the original Renaissance man. He was a forefather of fossil science:
… Read the rest “Leonardo da Vinci: Paleontologist.”In a new paper in the journal Palaios, Andrea Baucon shows that he
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.”
Cold-blooded? Maybe. Warm-hearted? Definitely. Discover has the latest on how dinosaur moms used hot springs to keep the babies warm:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur incubators.”In the Cretaceous period over a hundred million years
UPenn paleontologists have named a whole new kind of dinosaur:
… Read the rest “Look! It’s a… Hey-a WHAT-ee?”The dinosaur, whose name translates to mean “grinding-mouth, wrinkle-eye,” was most likely an herbivore that ate the ferns
Science magazine brings us a step closer to a Pleistocene Park by reporting on the creation of living mammoth blood:
… Read the rest “Mammoth blood lives again.”By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth gene into Escherichia
Telegraph.co.uk reports on a new theory that hail from a comet’s tail caused a 1,000-year freeze:
… Read the rest “Comets made us icy.”Thousands of chunks of material from the comet would have rained down on Earth, each
Not dinosaurs that eat snakes, Wired says, but snakes that paleontologists discovered eating dinosaurs:
… Read the rest “Snake eating dinosaurs.”But in 2001, University of Michigan paleontologist Jeff Wilson, took a second
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