These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… except when…… Read the rest “Science Art: Giant Animals: Modern and Extinct (detail), by Mary McLain”
Nature has more on the Brazilian “hugging” snake with legs… that’s changing the way we look at reptile origins:
… Read the rest “Four-legged snake fossil rewrites reptile evolution.”Although it has four legs, Tetrapodophis amplectus
It’s the sperm of perspective, is what it is. Nature is showing off the very seed of history – the oldest animal sperm ever discovered:
… Read the rest “World’s oldest sperm found inside fossilized worm.”The remains of long, thin cells preserved
File this, I guess, under “the problem with Jurassic Park.”
The little claw at the bottom belonged to the fearsome Velociraptor, a category of creatures … Read the rest “Science Art: Comparison between Deinonychus and Velociraptor’s feet, by Danny Cicchetti.”
Science Daily describes the regal bearing and frilly crown of Regaliceratops peterhewsi, the dinosaur they’re calling “Hellboy”:
… Read the rest “Hellboy, king of the Triceratops clan.”“The specimen comes from
Science Daily paints a picture of the very first snakes… before they lost their feet:
… Read the rest “Snakes had ankles a long, long time ago.”The study, led by Yale University, USA, analyzed fossils, genes, and anatomy from 73 snake and
Jaws!
Pieter Camper was a fossil collector, and in 1786, he drew this jaw he’d acquired. He thought it belonged to a toothed whale. Another collector had a similar… Read the rest “Science Art: Os Maxillaires Fossiles, by Pieter Camper.”
Science Daily tries to describe a “platypus dinosaur” that combines the oddest bits of Brontosaurus and T. rex:
… Read the rest “A plant-eating T. rex… with a long neck.”Chilesaurus diegosuarezi is named after the country where
Sometimes, as South China Morning Post demonstrates, you just can’t dig a hole in some parts of China without making some kind of remarkable dinosaur discovery:
… Read the rest “Dinosaur eggs in the big city.”The fossils were
Live Science describes a new sort of prehistoric monster – a bull-sized rodent with elephant-like tusks:
… Read the rest “The age of the elephant rats.”An amateur paleontologist first unearthed the skull of an extinct rodent,
New Scientist tries to keep some perspective about our great-great-etc. grandfather, Ursolestes, a prehistoric primate who might seem to us, a squirrel monkey. To dinosaurs, a giant… Read the rest “The mighty (tiny, but mighty) primate ancestor… waaay bigger than expected.”
My son and I just spent the afternoon watching the charming Your Inner Fish series (his idea, not mine), and learned all kinds of fascinating things about the importance… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 2: Lateral views of the skull and lower jaw… (etc.)”
Quoting here from Oudemans’ book:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Hydrarchos Sillimanni, from The great sea-serpent, by A. C. Oudemans, 1892.”In 1845 Dr. Albert C. Koch, “exhibited a large skeleton of a fossil animal, under the name of Hydrarchos Sillimanni
A “phragmocone” is a fancy word for a shell of a nautilus or ammonoid, and “Belemnitella” is a genus of belemnite, which is to say, a … Read the rest “Science Art: Phramgocone of Belemnitella, In Flint, 1851”
Popular Mechanics celebrates a new *double* record-breaker, a dinosaur bigger than anything that walked the Earth:
… Read the rest “What do you call a dinosaur that isn’t afraid of anything? Dreadnoughtus.”Today an international team of paleontologists unveiled the newest
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