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Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
Posted by Greg Laden on November 28, 2012 
You all know Don Prothero. He is an active member of the Skeptics and Science Blogging community. He is the author of several books, one of which you are totally supposed to own and if you don’t it’s kinda lame: Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, which I review along with some…
How to find dinosaurs!
Posted by Greg Laden on September 29, 2011 Study hard and get this guy’s job: I love that book, but when I was a kid they didn’t have dinosaurs yet.
Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z (a free excerpt)
Posted by Greg Laden on August 2, 2010 … from the National Center for Science Education. Click the picture to get the PDF of Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z .
Triassic Life on Land: I love this book
Posted by Greg Laden on July 28, 2010 The Triassic is old. This book is new. That is a hard to beat combination.
Spoor of South African Dinos Analyzed
Posted by Greg Laden on October 7, 2009 A new investigation of the sedimentology and ichnology of the Early Jurassic Moyeni tracksite in Lesotho, southern Africa has yielded new insights into the behavior and locomotor dynamics of early dinosaurs.
New Dinosaur Species from Niger
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2009 Just reported in PLoS ONE is a new dinosaur. Spinophorosaurus nigerensis Here are the salient facts:
Two Dinosaur Books for the Kiddies
Posted by Greg Laden on July 2, 2009 previously reviewed Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic is a children’s book for kids in third to fifth grade or, in my opinion, a little younger. Certainly this is an excellent choice, because of the cool illustrations, of a book to read aloud to the pre-literate little ones.
Extinction of the Old, Evolution of the New: What really happened to the dinosaurs?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 6, 2009 Many years ago, a sudden event occurred that changed everything. Or at least, that is what we think now. But in truth, the event took longer than many today believe, and many of the specific details, the exact order of events, the actual meaning of each detail, are not fully understood. Indeed, in the process…
Gerta Keller goes after impact theory again
Posted by Greg Laden on May 5, 2009 Keller has been one of the leading voices opposing the impact KT boundary extinction hypothesis. According to a press release from her university, she has more on this matter.
A most amazing set of spoor
Posted by Greg Laden on March 10, 2009 Dino spoor, that is. A recently reported finding in PLoS ONE clarifies a number of questions about how certain dinosaurs held their front limbs (zombie/Frankenstein-position palm-down vs. huggie-wuggie palms-facing-each-other). This research confirms … that early theropods, like later birds, held their palms facing medially, in contrast to … prints previously attributed to theropods that have…
OMG, Ken Ham is Right!!11!!
Posted by Greg Laden on February 28, 2009 Did Triceratops fight with their faces?
Posted by Greg Laden on February 4, 2009 Or, more accurately, did these dinosaurs either engage in intraspecific combat (such as territorial or mating contests among males) or fight predators such as Tyrannosaurs, like in the movies? Well, one thing we know for sure: If any folklore, belief, or ‘fact’ related to a fossil species sits around long enough, eventually someone will come…
The Carnival of Evolution #3
Posted by Greg Laden on October 1, 2008 Welcome to the Third Edition of the Carnival of Evolution. The previous edition of this web log ‘carnival of the vanities’ was at Jason Rosenhouse’s Evolution Blog. The next edition will be written by Mike (TUIBG) and hosted here, at Clashing Cultures. Please submit your web posts on Evolution for the next carnival, which is…
Aerosteon riocoloradensis: A Very Cool Dinosaur from Argentina
Posted by Greg Laden on September 29, 2008 Fossils of a newly discovered species of dinosaur — a 10-meter-long, elephant-weight predator — were discovered in 1996 along the banks of Argentina’s Rio Colorado, and are now being reported after a long period of careful study. This dinosaur dates to about 85 million years (which falls within the Cretaceous period). Perhaps the most interesting…
The seductive siren of soft tissue preservation: Ancient dinosaur flesh wasn’t ancient. Or dinosaur flesh.
Posted by Greg Laden on July 29, 2008 An ugly fact killing a beautiful hypothesis I’m not mentioning any names, and don’t ask me any details. In fact, don’t repeat this story. Some years ago, when I was a mere graduate student, a fellow student working in an unnamed country in Africa discovered a very very old stone artifact. To this day, this…
Gobi Dinosaur is “complete skeleton”
Posted by Greg Laden on July 24, 2008 Notice how I put “complete skeleton” in quotes. A paleontologist’s idea of complete is not exactly the same as everyone else’s.. But this Gobi Desert Tyrannosauris-like Tarbosaurus has a lot of its bone. It was recently extracted from sandstone blocks dug up a couple of years ago. Another nice thing about this fossil is that…
Canadian Dinosaur Find: New Species?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 16, 2008 The first dinosaur bones (that we know of) to have been discovered in British Columbia, Canada, are now being reported. These are bones found in 1971, eventually making their way to the Royal British Columbia Museum, and now being reported by V.M. Arbour and M.C. Graves. The bones were initially found by Kenny Flyborg Larsen,…
New Species of Dinosaur?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 16, 2008 All I have is a lousy press release, since my University does not subscribe to this journal. (Well,we get it but I am not allowed to see the most recent six months!). So here it is:
Two Dinosaur Books for the Kiddies
Posted by Greg Laden on June 12, 2008 Giant Dinosaurs of the Jurassic is a children’s book for kids in third to fifth grade or, in my opinion, a little younger. Certainly this is an excellent choice, because of the cool illustrations, of a book to read aloud to the pre-literate little ones.
Reconsidering the Reconstruction of the Pterosaur
Posted by Greg Laden on May 27, 2008 A very large Azhdarchid shown with a human for scale. Azhdarchids were pterosaurs (flying reptile-like creatures) of the Cretaceous. These included some gigantic critters with up to a 10 meter wing span, but also some little ones (2.5 meters or so). Most reconstructions of these flying animals have them skim-feeding across the surface of bodies…
Ancient Soft Parts: Dinosaur and Elephant Tales
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2008 Some of my colleagues are downplaying the recent paper in science showing a: that mastodons are elephants and b: that birds and dinosaurs … in particular Tyrannosaurus rex and turkeys … are related. (See here and here, for instance) Yes, it is true that these phylogenetic findings are wholly uninteresting, being exactly what we expected.…
The Boneyard XIII
Posted by Greg Laden on April 6, 2008 Grrrrrrrrrrrrr…. Welcome to the Lucky 13th Edition of The Boneyard … the Web Carnival about Bones and Stuff. “The Boneyard is a blog carnival covering all things paleo, from dinosaurs to pollen to hominids and everywhere in between. It’s held every two weeks (the 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month), traveling around to a…
Royal Ontario Museum Unveils Huge Dinosaur
Posted by Greg Laden on December 13, 2007 From Dinosaurs and the Bible: If you’re living in or is near the Ontario area, go pay a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum to get a load of the unveiling of a huge dinosaur mount that was previously hidden in the museum storage and forgotten for 40 years until it was rediscovered last year…
Dinosaurs
Posted by Greg Laden on December 8, 2007 With all the recent news about dinosaurs, I thought you’d like to see a video of actual dinosaurs:
, which is now available for the 
