Saturday, May 31, 2008

Michael Skrepnick Interview

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Brian Switek interviews palaeo-artist Michael Skrepnick at his (Switek's) Laelaps blog.

The Origin of High Growth Rates in Archosaurs

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On the origin of high growth rates in archosaurs and their ancient relatives: Complementary histological studies on Triassic archosauriforms...
Friday, May 30, 2008

The Island Of Thunder

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Star Spangled War Stories © DC Comics Scott Shaw!’s Oddball Comics brings us another classic to round out our week. From “Star Spangled W...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Placoderm Live Birth

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Live birth in the Devonian period . 2008. J. A. Long et al. Nature 453: 650-652. Abstract: The extinct placoderm fishes were the dominant gr...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Termination of Snowball Earth

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Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate . 2008. M. Kennedy, et al. Nature 453,: 642-645. Do...

Giant Flying Reptiles Preferred To Walk

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A Reappraisal of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Functional Morphology and Paleoecology . 2008. Witton MP and Naish D. PLoS ONE 3(5): e2271. Life rest...

Pen (2)

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I hope everyone in the US had a good Memorial Day long weekend. To start things off again, a request for more of the "PEN" magazi...

Born This Day: Louis Agassiz

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image May 28, 1807 - Dec. 14, 1873 (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz was a Swiss-born U.S. naturalist, geologist, and teacher who made revolut...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Born This Day: Carl Linnaeus

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Born May 23, 1707 – Jan. 10, 1778. From the Linnean Society : Linnaeus was born in 1707 in Sweden. He headed an expedition to Lapland in 173...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Pen (with New Attitude)

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The May 2008 issue of the Japanese magazine 'Pen' has a 60 page article on dinosaurs. It covers each of the major taxa, recent adva...

Born This Day: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930 From HERE : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and creator of Sherlock Holmes. He was born in Edinbur...

Born This Day: Oliver Perry Hay

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May 22, 1846 – Novemeber 2, 1930 Hay was an American paleontologist whose catalogs of fossil vertebrates greatly organized existing knowle...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Gerobatrachus: The Missing Link Between Frogs & Salamanders

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A stem batrachian from the Early Permian of Texas and the origin of frogs and salamanders . 2008. Jason S. Anderson et al., Nature 453: 515-...

First Dinosaur Trackway From Yemen

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First Dinosaur Tracks from the Arabian Peninsula . 2008. A. S. Schulp et al., PLoS ONE 3(5): e2243. Scientists report evidence of a large or...

Macroevolutionary Changes In Snakes

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Adaptive Evolution and Functional Redesign of Core Metabolic Proteins in Snakes . 2008. T.A. Castoe et al., PLoS ONE 3(5): e2201. Kamandi © ...

Born This Day: Mary Anning

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May 21, 1799 - March 9, 1847 From Today in Science History : Mary was an English fossil collector who made her first significant discovery ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Genes From Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Resurrected

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Resurrection of DNA Function In Vivo from an Extinct Genome . 2008. A. J. Pask, et al. PLoS ONE 3(5): e2240. The thylacine, Thylacinus cynoc...

Born This Day: Carl E. Akeley

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May 19, 1864 - Nov 17, 1926 This is not quite palaeo, but anyone’s who’s been to the AMNH has marveled at the wonderful dioramas and mounts ...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

World's Biggest 'Baby' Dinosaur Tracks Found in Korea

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From Digital Chosunilbo : The world’s largest fossil of a playground of baby dinosaurs going back over 100 million years has been found in K...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Stephen Jay Gould's Library Donated To Stanford

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From the press release : During his career, Gould assembled what he believed was a definitive library of the history of early paleontology ,...