Friday, May 18, 2012

UPDATE: HELP SAVE THE MONGOLIAN TYRANNOSAURUS

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If you would like to help save the Mongolian Tyannosaurus and other important dinosaur specimens slated for auction on Sunday, please go to ...

MONGOLIAN DINOSAURS IN PERIL

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Heritage Auctions, a large auction house in New York City, has a number of dinosaur fossils going on the auction block this Sunday.  A numbe...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

MOTHER’S DAY 2012: Celebrating Ancient Sharks, Superfoetative Viviparity, and the Earliest Record of Sibling Rivalry

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Montana, 318 million-years-ago. Red line is the equator and the black line marks 10 degrees north latitude.  Yellow circle is the sit...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

DROP DEAD DELICIOUS

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A Pacific Humpback Whale calf. A baleen whale carcass, at a depth of 9800 ft, on the floor of Monterey Canyon. The deep ocea...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

UPDATE: The Dancing Worm of Turkana

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Since yesterday's post on Tullimonstrum gregarium , a copy of Rory's 1969 27 page booklet "The Dancing Worm of Turkana" ha...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

LIVING FOSSILS: Tullimonstrum gregarium and The Dancing Worm of Turkana

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The tully monster is a truly weird fossil, so much so that I want to make it clear up front that I have not concocted this animal as part ...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

A PERMIAN PALEOBOTANICAL POMPEII

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There is a mythology of sorts about finding dinosaurs.  Every skeleton is beautifully complete from the tip of the snout to the end ...
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