Category Archives: Archosaurs
Wandering Ponies #2
While my brain eases itself out of the haze of Christmas madness, here are some things that have amused me of late: It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of Alex Wild’s photography, so I thought I should mention … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, Archosaurs, Insects, Science, Video
Wandering Ponies #1
In an effort to generate more content here while Sara and I are too busy working/raving/generating content elsewhere to write proper posts, we’ve decided to throw up (not literally) a bunch of links to stuff that has amused and/or intrigued … Continue reading
Filed under Animals, Archosaurs, Science, Sea Creatures, Video
Oh My God, Whoever Invited the Tyrannosaurs Over is in SO MUCH TROUBLE…
Unusual lesions and puncture marks found on tyrannosaurid skulls have had a major impact on our understanding of the lives of the tyrannosaurs, as detailed by two recent studies coming out of the US. In a paper published in this … Continue reading
Filed under Archosaurs, Fossils, Museum Stuff, Science
Give Up, Seahorse.
Two years after the preserved proteins of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex were published by NCSU paleontologist, Mary Schweitzer, and her team, they’ve come back to describe the discovery of some 80-million-year-old femur bone proteins belonging to the duckbilled hadrosaur, Brachylophosaurus … Continue reading
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Happy (Belated) Velociraptor Awareness Day
* Velociraptor Mongoliensis picture courtesy of John Conway (http://jconway.co.uk) Not sure what we’re supposed to be “aware” of, but whatever, here are some fun Velociraptor links for your amusement: How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with … Continue reading
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Feathers, Tianyulong? Really?
So the recent discovery published in Nature last week by researchers from the Institute of Geology in Beijing of an apparently bristly 130 million-year-old ornithischian fossil has had quite the rapturous reception by the international media. The palaeontologists, however, prefer … Continue reading
Filed under Archosaurs, Fossils, Museum Stuff, New Species!
