Mammoth blood lives again.
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 […]
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Comets made us icy.
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 […]
Snake eating dinosaurs.
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 […]
Cute little dinosaurs.
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 […]
Open Dinosaurs.
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 […]
Our Antarctic Getaway
New Scientist has a lovely brochure for a summer place down south – far, far south: The cool climate of Antarctica was a refuge for […]
T. rex: Just a big puppy?
The Telegraph reveals new fossil evidence that one of history’s scariest dinosaurs engaged in play-fights: Geologist Dr Joe Peterson, of Northern Illinois University, said: “Jane […]
SONG: Up, Up, Upsub 1
SONG: Up, Up, Upsub1. ABSTRACT: So, I wrote that song about New Zealand’s not-so-mythical giant eagle, (Harpagornis moorei), but I wasn’t really satisfied with the […]
SONG: Up, Up, Up
SONG: “Up, Up, Up.” (To download, double right click and “Save Target As…”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Maori legend of man-eating bird is true”, from The […]
Behold the roc!
Or at least a very, very big, mythical bird… that turned out to be real: “It was certainly capable of swooping down and taking a […]
Science Art: Discoaster surculus.
Click to embiggen This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 […]
Welcome back to the territory, TMBG.
The association between songs about science and songs for kids is never entirely broken, I guess, since both endeavors are supposedly educational. So it’s just […]
Prehistoric squid drawn in prehistoric ink.
The Telegraph unveils a beautiful portrait of a fearsome beast – an ancient squid drawn in its own petrified ink: “It is difficult to imagine […]
The Crocodillo
I can’t figure out why something like this wouldn’t have survived pretty much anything. National Geographic reports on the discovery of an armored, omnivorous, desert-dwelling […]
Science Art: Prachtkäfer aus der Grube Messel (Splendor Beetle of the Messel Pit)
Click to embiggen vastly This is a fossilized insect, one of the Buprestidae (or Splendor Beetles or Jewel Beetles, from the collection of the Hessisches […]