Vox takes a close look at a fossilized iguanodon brain:
… Read the rest ““This misshapen pebble is actually the first ever dinosaur brain fossil ever found.””On a dark winter night in 2004, Jamie Hiscocks spotted an odd-shaped stone on a beach by his home in Sussex, England. “I could see in my
Science Daily looks into some really old larynxes (larynges?) with University of Texas, Austin, researchers and concludes dinosaurs, though bird-like, didn’t sing – they… Read the rest “Dinosaurs probably boomed instead of singing.”
Nature introduces a little guy who’s upending the way we think about the age of dinosaurs… a time when pterosaurs ruled the skies with 10-meter wingspans. Well, except there… Read the rest “Ptiny Pterosaurs”
Nature braces for the fun in the gene labs, as CRISPR paves the way to recreate bygone creatures:
… Read the rest “Prepare to make prehistoric monsters”The precise, efficient CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique has already taken life-sciences
This is a recreation of a weird ecosystem – one without any beef, basically. The Chinle formation, a primordial swamp in what is now New Mexico, didn’t have… Read the rest “Science Art: Clash of the Triassic Titans: Phytosaur vs. Rauisuchian, by Julio Lacerda.”
SONG: “Not a Pony”.
ARTIST: grant, featuring Enok Webb.
SOURCE: “Horse-sized tyrannosaur may be long-sought missing link in T.rex evolution,” Washington… Read the rest “SONG: “Not a Pony.””
These are fossilized shells from Thomas Davidson’s “On Some Fossil Brachiopoda,” or “Palaeontological Notes on the Brachiopoda,” from this magazine… Read the rest “Science Art: Plate XII foldout by Thomas Davidson, from The geologist : a popular monthly magazine of geology.”
Washington Post has peeked as experts sexed a T. rex:
… Read the rest “Tyrannosaur pregnant?”The team from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences published its findings Tuesday in the
I stole the name from Reuters, but it was Joel Achenbach at Washington Post that first pointed me toward the news that they’ve found a miniature “missing link” tyrannosaur… Read the rest “Wee rex. Awwww.”
Washington Post reports on an impossible-seeming thing – a fossil that’s not just of hard tissue like teeth and bones (and shells), but that reveals the structures of something… Read the rest “Fossilized nerves.”
Such a winning smile….
Neopteroplax was, at one point, something like a crocodile of salamanders – an amphibian about 3 meters long (that’s nigh onto… Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 4, Neopteroplax conemaughensis, 1963”
Discovery News hypes the headline a little here (but forgivably) by declaring that a 45-million-year-old prehistoric coffee has been discovered preserved in amber:
… Read the rest “Coffee (and pepper) of the dinosaurs discovered.”Named Strychnos
Science Daily introduces us to a new… or, well, very, very old beast – a prehistoric gnu that trumpeted like a duck-billed dinosaur:
… Read the rest “Great trumpeting wildebeests!”By poring over the fossilized skulls of
National Geographic marvels at a huge number of very large footprints on the Scottish coast:
… Read the rest “Dinosaurs walked in Scotland”The footprints form the largest dinosaur site ever found in Scotland. They also show that sauropods,
Scientific American explores a strange anatomical detail for a very large dinosaur indeed – a whip-like tail that could actually have cracked like a whip:
… Read the rest “Apatosaurus could have cracked its tail like a giant whip.”The idea that Apatosaurus
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