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A scorpionfly from the Miocene shales of Colorado, as the caption says in the Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from June 30, 1953. I found… Read the rest “Science Art: Holcorpa Maculosa Scudder”
Science News looks at new research revisiting an old idea – that mass extinctions have something to do with reversals in Earth’s magnetic fields. The two phenomena are looking… Read the rest “Scientists suspect magnetic fields in mass extinctions.”
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A scene from the Devonian period, before dinosaurs ever emerged to rumble the earth. This lobe-finned fish measured between 8 and 15 feet long, and swam in freshwater rivers… Read the rest “Science Art: Hyneria, by ABelov2014”
Science News reports on an ostracod fossil that’s 100 million years old – and contains a a recognizable sample of its giant sperm:
… Read the rest “We’ve found the world’s oldest sperm. And it’s big.”A single piece of amber from Myanmar held 39
Popular Science makes some of the most terrifying creatures of prehistory even more terrifying with reconstructed evidence that flesh-eating dinosaurs got hungry enough to eat each … Read the rest “Dinosaur cannibals.”
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From the “Scientific Illustration” collection on Wikimedia Commons, where this image of trilobites and prehistoric shellfish has the following… Read the rest “Science Art: Devonian Marine Organisms, by Aleksandra Arkhipova, 2015”
Nature has a video up with paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim, who discusses tailbones from the Sahara that indicate this gigantic, prehistoric bird relative swam for its supper:
… Read the rest “Spinosaurs were swimmers: “the only known aquatic dinosaur.””A new fossil
The so-called “Siberian unicorn,” the Elasmotherium, a noble critter here pictured in the pages of Evolution of the Past, by Henry R. Knipe (with illustrations… Read the rest “Science Art: Elasmotherium by Alice B. Woodward, 1912.”
Science News reports on the discovery of the smallest known dinosaur in a Myanmar gemstone – and it was a tiny predator:
… Read the rest “Burmese amber contains skull of hummingbird-sized dinosaur.”A tiny, toothed bird that lived 99 million years ago appears
National Geographic revels in the grisly remains of a killer found in a museum cabinet – bones that turned out to belong to a prehistoric predator that’s revealing a lot about… Read the rest “New “reaper of death” tyrannosaur discovered in Canada.”
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These are not dinosaurs – they’re older than that – but they are in The Dinosaur Book, Edwin H. Colbert’s 1945 guide to prehistoric creatures… Read the rest “Science Art: The evolution of the synapsid reptiles, by John C. Germann,1945”
A dinosaur in a coat of arms for Dornogovi Province, Mongolia. It’s from Wikimedia Commons’ “Dinosaurs in Heraldry” section. As UNESCO reminds… Read the rest “Science Art: Coat of Arms of Dornogovi Aimag in Mongolia”
BBC reports on a brown-and-white relic that reveals what dinosaurs really looked like – the first material from a dinosaur’s body ever discovered:
… Read the rest “Feathered dinosaur tail found preserved in amber.”“This is the first
ABC News (Australia) shares the findings of a Mexican expedition that has discovered a trove of mammoth bones in what appears to have been a pair of pits dug by humans to be prehistoric mammoth… Read the rest “The 15,000-year-old Mexican mammoth trap.”
Nature rounds up a “rash of fossil finds” revealing the lives of the first mammals, shedding a little more light on how our forebears survived the extinction of the dinosaurs… Read the rest “A new look at the mammals who lived with dinosaurs”
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