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Scientific illustration of the skull of a horned dinosaur from Utah.

Science Art: Skull reconstruction of Utahceratops gettyi, 2010.

14 July 2024 grant 0

Here’s a horned dinosaur, or what’s left of one. I found it on Wikimedia Commons, but it was originally found in Utah, then written up in “New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah… Read the rest “Science Art: Skull reconstruction of Utahceratops gettyi, 2010.”

New species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur unveiled

4 July 2024 grant 0

Yellowstone Public Radio has a piece on the grand-looking Lokiceratops rangiformes, unearthed in Montana and “unveiled” at the Natural History Museum of Utah:

Mark Loewen

… Read the rest “New species of horned, plant-eating dinosaur unveiled”
Scientific illustration of a primoridal landscape, particularly ferns, palms, conifers, all vivid green against sparkling blue water and a white-clouded sky.

Science Art: Main floristic types from the Maastrichtian, F. Guillén, 2012.

29 May 2024 grant 0

This is a likeness of the southern bit of South America as it was near the end of the Cretaceous, right before the event that drove the dinosaurs to extinction. The Maastrichtian Age was a geologic… Read the rest “Science Art: Main floristic types from the Maastrichtian, F. Guillén, 2012.”

Damned big ichthyosaur.

20 April 2024 grant 0

Science Daily has news of a child — child! — of 11 who discovered the fossilized bones, during a seaside walk in England, of a very big sea creature. It probably measured about… Read the rest “Damned big ichthyosaur.”

Scientific illustration of two prehistoric sea creatures, a long-necked elasmosaurus called Styxosaurus, and a long-bodied fish called Xiphactinus. Bofh species hover in the water, neutrally buoyant, dappled by sunlight, and looking distinctly predatory, just hanging there, watching.

Science Art: Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.

27 February 2024 grant 0

Styxosaurus is, or was, an elasmosaur – an undersea predator with a long neck and sharp teeth, all the better for grabbing ammonites and prehistoric fish for a quick snack. It takes… Read the rest “Science Art: Styxosaurus and Xiphactinus/i>, by ABelov2014.”

Chinese dragon fossil discovered.

24 February 2024 grant 0

NPR, among other outlets, has reported on the discovery of a real Chinese dragon in this, the Year of the Dragon. At least, it’s certainly the remarkably complete fossil of a creature… Read the rest “Chinese dragon fossil discovered.”

How the Bigfoot candidate went extinct.

6 February 2024 grant 0

Triops Galaxy reports on paleontological research into the biggest primate ever to walk the planet, the 600-pound Gigantopithecus blackii… without mentioning Bigfoot. Instead,… Read the rest “How the Bigfoot candidate went extinct.”

Against a prehistoric sunset over a primordial ocean, a leather-winged flying reptile feeds two or more young in their nest, made in a cranny of a seaside cliff.

Science Art: Nyctodactlyus, by F. John, c. 1915

28 January 2024 grant 0

This glimpse into a prehistoric world (which we now know should probably have at least a few more feathers in it) is part of the first series of chromolithographic cards created by German … Read the rest “Science Art: Nyctodactlyus, by F. John, c. 1915”

Giant, ancient predator worms discovered in Arctic Greenland

4 January 2024 grant 0

PhysOrg has another delightful story about prehistoric invertebrates. This time, researchers have discovered a half-a-billion-year-old enormous predator worm from the icy reaches… Read the rest “Giant, ancient predator worms discovered in Arctic Greenland”

Fossil preserves the soft parts of a 75 million-year-old crab.

3 January 2024 grant 0

PhysOrg has the story of a crab whose gills and other soft tissues were preserved against all odds for 75 million years:

In a paper recently published in Palaeontologia Electronica, Dr.

… Read the rest “Fossil preserves the soft parts of a 75 million-year-old crab.”

Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.

15 December 2023 grant 0

The Japan Times covers a brand new (to us) prehistoric dung beetle that a high school student discovered while breaking rocks in class:

During a geoscience class in September last year,

… Read the rest “Japanese high schooler discovers beetle species.”
Scientific illustration of a Torosaurus, the dinosaur with the largest skull.

Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905

25 June 2023 grant 0

I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new – a just-opened… Read the rest “Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905”

Scientific Illustration of a kind of spinosaur known as the "hell heron."

Science Art: Ceratosuchops inferodios life reconstruction, by PaleoGeekSquared

19 June 2023 grant 0

This is a kind of spinosaur-ancestor dubbed “the hell heron” by some dramatically minded scientists. C. inferodios was identified in 2021 from some fossil fragments in the… Read the rest “Science Art: Ceratosuchops inferodios life reconstruction, by PaleoGeekSquared”

A beaked dinosaur in Utah named for the god Janus.

9 June 2023 grant 0

Smithsonian Magazine covers the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Iani smithi, that’s part of a little-known group of dinosaurs that were around just before the big, famous… Read the rest “A beaked dinosaur in Utah named for the god Janus.”

Out of Africa, yes, but all over Africa and not all at once.

28 May 2023 grant 0

New York Times rewrites human prehistory with a genetic study that replaces the tree of life – a diagram of human origins with one trunk growing out of one spot in the continent before… Read the rest “Out of Africa, yes, but all over Africa and not all at once.”

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