Paleontology:
The Pterosaur paper is really hitting the media and blogs today. Of course, it is kind of a blogospheric "baby". One of the authors is my SciBling Darren Naish, the other author is Mark Witton, and even the Academic...
Posted on May 28, 2008 1:41 PM • 4 Comments •
Brian Switek has managed to grab some big blogospheric scoops - he interviewed Robert Bakker and Jack Horner and promises more such interviews in the future....
Posted on April 11, 2008 11:53 AM • 1 Comments •
Imagine: An Interview with Svante Paabo: Svante Paabo works on the edge of what's possible. He ignites our imagination, unlocking tightly held secrets in ancient remains. By patiently and meticulously working out techniques to extract genetic information from skin, teeth,...
Posted on March 28, 2008 5:52 PM • 0 Comments •
I was lucky to be in the car at the right time this morning to catch a story about Mastodons in Manhattan: A Botanical Puzzle, i.e., why honey locust trees in NYCity have long thorns - an interesting story (click...
Posted on February 22, 2008 9:56 AM • 3 Comments •
Karl Mogel interviews Neil Shubin. Paleontology makes testable predictions, with cool results....
Posted on February 13, 2008 6:47 AM • 0 Comments •
Can you help identify this fossil? The experts are baffled....
Posted on February 6, 2008 10:58 AM • 4 Comments •
Aetosaurs. No, I have not heard of them until now. But that does not matter - the big story about them today is the possibility - not 100% demonstrated yet, to be fair - that some unethical things surround their...
Posted on January 31, 2008 9:08 PM • 3 Comments •
As usual, they made a great website and you can have fun with the "hidden camera" and try to figure out how many little movies did they have to make for the trick to work (i.e., try to "roar" when...
Posted on December 6, 2007 10:06 AM • 0 Comments •
Today is a super-exciting day for me and I hope you will find it exciting as well. Why? Because today PLoS ONE published a paper I am very hyped about - Structural Extremes in a Cretaceous Dinosaur by Sereno PC,...
Posted on November 15, 2007 10:37 AM • 19 Comments •
OK, I live here, yet I had to learn from Brian that the AMNH dinosaur exhibit is coming to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. The exhibit will be open from October 26, 2007 till March...
Posted on October 7, 2007 12:11 AM • 0 Comments •
It's like letting a kid into a candy store. John McKay, whose favourite blogging topic is the study of extinct pachyderms, finally got to go on a dig. And, as one could expect, his account of it is as excited...
Posted on August 7, 2007 11:48 PM • 1 Comments •
Greeting the visitors....
Posted on July 15, 2007 2:23 AM • 1 Comments •
I am sometimes not aware that my blogospheric friends know each other well. So, for instance, I had no idea that Sean Carroll of Cosmic Variance blog and the crew at Project Exploration (see the brown square on my left...
Posted on July 10, 2007 11:06 AM • 0 Comments •
As more and more people are slowly coming out of the woodwork and revealing they are going to Science Foo Camp, I am getting more and more excited about it! Yes, I have registered and reserved my hotel room already....
Posted on June 26, 2007 10:56 PM • 1 Comments •
China finds new species of big, bird-like dinosaur: Eight meters (26 ft) long and standing at twice the height of a man at the shoulder, the fossil of the feathered but flightless Gigantoraptor erlianensis was found in the Erlian basin...
Posted on June 13, 2007 1:48 PM • 2 Comments •
OK, it's been about 20 years since I was last in vet school and I have fogotten most of the stuff I learned there. But I remember a few things. I clearly remember the Pathology class (and especially the lab!)...
Posted on June 9, 2007 5:50 PM • 3 Comments •
A paper in press in Current Biology (press release here) looks at mitochondrial DNA of mammoths and advances a primarily environmental cause for the mammoth extinction. Razib explains why such a black-and-white dichotomy is unhealthy. Looking at a different hypothesis,...
Posted on June 8, 2007 12:50 AM • 1 Comments •
In response to my previous post on the subject, I received a following e-mail (personal information omitted) from Colorado: I'm active in opposing this for many reasons including the forced removal of American citizens from their homes and lands by...
Posted on June 2, 2007 4:03 PM • 2 Comments •
These two articles in Colorado Springs Independent and Denver Post are just the latest in an ongoing saga about the move by the U.S.Army to expand its Fort Carson base to include an additional million acres of land full of...
Posted on May 30, 2007 9:50 AM • 3 Comments •
Are they completely insane?...
Posted on May 28, 2007 11:47 PM • 2 Comments •
When Archy writes about mammoths that is automatically the Obligatory Reading of the Day - an amazing post!...
Posted on May 20, 2007 12:41 AM • 2 Comments •
An Ancient Bathtub Ring Of Mammoth Fossils: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory geologists have put out a call for teeth tusks, femurs and any and all other parts of extinct mammoths left by massive Ice Age floods in southeastern Washington. The...
Posted on May 8, 2007 3:41 PM • 1 Comments •
Jurassic Crocodile Is Unearthed From Blue Mountains In Eastern Oregon: An ancient sea-going crocodile has surfaced from the rocks of Crook County in eastern Oregon. Really. It's discovery by the North American Research Group (NARG), whose members were digging for...
Posted on March 19, 2007 2:52 PM • 1 Comments •
I was just about to write about this story, but Grrrrl scoooped me and summarized it so well, I'll just ask you to go there. Oh, btw, it is about an incredible discovery of about one hundred dinosaur eggs and...
Posted on February 6, 2007 4:08 PM • 0 Comments •
I love it when Archy blogs about mammoths and the latest post is perhaps his best yet!...
Posted on January 25, 2007 2:49 AM • 0 Comments •
Did mammoths scratch themselves against rocks? Parkman believes, and he has a growing body of evidence to prove that mammoths and other large Ice Age creatures once used these very rocks near Duncan's Landing, along the Sonoma Coast State Beach,...
Posted on December 8, 2006 6:38 PM • 0 Comments •
I took a class with Dale Russell a few years ago. It was one of the most memorable classes ever, mainly because of Dale's overwhelming enthusiasm for the subjects of dinosaurs and evolution (as well as the coolest field-trip to...
Posted on November 4, 2006 10:04 PM • 0 Comments •
Norwegian scientists have discovered a "treasure trove" of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs. The 150 million-year-old fossils were uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard - about halfway...
Posted on October 5, 2006 1:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Archy has totally switched from mammoths (and Republicans) to mastodons. He explains the news on the tuberculosis in their bones and what that has to do with their extinction....
Posted on October 4, 2006 2:48 PM • 0 Comments •
When you are hungry for news about mammoths, you go and visit Archy, of course. But this time, he moves sideways to take a look at mastodons, hippos and Ken Hamm. And the tail, or whatever that is.......
Posted on September 25, 2006 2:31 AM • 0 Comments •
The phrase "Living Fossil" is second to only "Missing Link" on my list of irks-me-to-no-end abuses of English language. Darren Naish now explains exactly what is wrong with the term, using as the case study the recent rediscovery of the...
Posted on September 16, 2006 1:52 PM • 9 Comments •
Paleontologists Find 67 Dinosaurs In One Week: He was specifically looking for Psittacosaurus fossils because it was a very common dinosaur and would give him lots of specimens, Horner said. It would also keep away poachers and commercial fossil hunters...
Posted on September 15, 2006 3:14 PM • 0 Comments •
Archy is on top of the story, as usual when the story is about people trying to resurrect mammoths!...
Posted on August 15, 2006 2:50 PM • 0 Comments •
The find of a knife flake together with a mammoth dated at 16,000 yo, spurs new speculations about pre-Clovis humans in the Americas. This is the clearest description I ever found of a possible alternative hypothesis to Bering-Clovis....
Posted on August 10, 2006 4:40 PM • 2 Comments •
If you are interested in mammoths, or if mammoths make the news, the first place to go is Archy: WOOLLY MAMMOTH LINKED TO SCIENCE FRAUD!!!...
Posted on July 26, 2006 10:58 PM • 0 Comments •
Do you read Darren Naish's blog Tetrapod Zoology? If not, you should start now. Just check out some of the most recent posts, for example this two-parter on sea snakes: 'A miniature plesiosaur without flippers': surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours...
Posted on July 16, 2006 11:44 AM • 1 Comments •
Archy has the answer....
Posted on July 8, 2006 8:56 PM • 1 Comments •
The Aquatic Ape theory is bunk, but Aquatic Sparrow theory just got a huge boost. There is no way I can explain the Big Evolution News Of The Day as well as Grrrlscientist did, so please go here and enjoy...
Posted on June 15, 2006 4:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Hey, I just came here - don't even know where the bathroom is, yet the SEED overlords are already making demands - the "Ask the ScienceBlogger" question of the week. At least they picked a relatively easy one for us...
Posted on June 9, 2006 6:31 PM • 2 Comments •
You may have noticed a button on my sidebar (under the heading "I Support") that looks like this: If you click on it, you will be transported to the homepage of one of my favourite science educational programs - the...
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Posted on June 9, 2006 2:29 PM • 0 Comments •
