Friday, April 15, 2005

The Young Earth From Turok #58

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As discussed in today's previous post on the history of dinosaur comics (Part 5), here is an example of the "Young Earth" str...

Fossilized Eggs Found In Dino Skeleton

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A Pair of Shelled Eggs Inside A Female Dinosaur . Tamaki Sato, Yen-nien Cheng, Xiao-chun Wu, Darla K. Zelenitsky, and Yu-fu Hsiao. 2005. Sci...

Steve R. Bissette's The Paleo Path: The History of Dino-Comics - Part 5

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Note: The following is modified from Steve Bissette's introduction to the new collection of the comic book PALEO by Jim Lawson. This ...
Thursday, April 14, 2005

New Amphibians From The Permian Of Africa

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Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea . CHRISTIAN A. SIDOR, F. ROBIN O'KEEFE, ROSS DAMIANI, J. S...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

The Face Of The Earliest Human

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Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis . CHRISTOPH P. E. ZOLLIKOFER, MARCIA S. PONCE DE LEÓN, DANIEL E. LIEBERMAN, FRAN...

Into Africa

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Affinities of 'hyopsodontids' to elephant shrews and a Holarctic origin of Afrotheria SHAWN P. ZACK, TONYA A. PENKROT, JONATHAN I. ...
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Feathered Dinos Roost In Toronto

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The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto , Canada, is also hosting an exhibit on feathered dinosaurs entitled, “ Feathered Dinosaurs and the Ori...

Died This Day: Edward Drinker Cope

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(July28, 1840 - April 12, 1987) From the excellent evolution pages at the University of California at Berkeley web site: Edward Drinker Cop...
Monday, April 11, 2005

Mammoth Uncovered In California

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From RedNova.com : The remarkably well-preserved remnants of an estimated half-million-year-old mammoth - including both tusks - were discov...

Ordovician Extinction Linked to Gamma Ray Explosion

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From BBC News.com : A gamma ray burst could have caused the Ordovician extinction 450 million years ago , killing 60% of marine invertebrate...

Sabre-Tooth Bite A Pussy Cat

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Bite club: comparative bite force in big biting mammals and the prediction of predatory behaviour in fossil taxa . S. Wroe, C McHenry and J ...

Early Earth Atmosphere Favorable To Life

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From a press release from the University of Colorado: A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates Earth in its infancy probabl...

Psychosaurus

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I'm now back from my research trip to Canada and should be back to posting regularly (including more 'real science') very soon. ...
Saturday, April 09, 2005

Jurassic Park For Mammoths

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Stefan Lovgren from National Geographic.Com reports on new efforts to bring the Mammoth back from extinction : A team of Japanese genetic s...

Feathered Dinosaur Show Continues At The CMNH

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The Feathered Dinosaur Show is breaking all records at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. If you've not seen the show yet be sur...
Friday, April 08, 2005

Steve R. Bissette's The Paleo Path: The History of Dino-Comics - Part 4

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Note: The following is modified from Steve Bissette's introduction to the new collection of the comic book PALEO by Jim Lawson. T...
Thursday, April 07, 2005

Born This Day: Kenneth (Page) Oakley

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April 7, 1911 - November 2, 1981 From Today in Science History : English physical anthropologist, geologist, and paleontologist best known f...
Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Happy Birthday to The American Museum of Natural History

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From Today in Science History : In 1869, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City was officially created with the signing o...

RTMP Research Trip

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For those who like to know these things the palaeoblogger has been in Alberta since April 1 (no foolin') to do work at the Royal Tyrrell...
Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Happy Birthday to the British Museum

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From Today in Science History : In 1753, the British Museum was founded by an Act of Parliament . Since then, the museum has been collectin...