PALAEOBLOG

Parallels between playbacks and Pleistocene tar seeps suggest sociality in an extinct sabretooth cat, Smilodon . 2008. Biology Letters, publ...

After over a hundred years of local palaeontological discovery and excavation, the Frenchman Formation Terrestrial Ecosystem Conference will...

S.R. Bissette’s Tyrant © & ™ Steve R. Bissette Olfactory acuity in theropods: palaeobiological and evolutionary implications . 2008. D...

Read: The Time Travelers from Operation Peril #11, 1952.

Deciphering the complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of the extinct cave bear in the Paleolithic painted cave of Chauvet . 2008. C. B...

Last August some of the volunteers who came out to Dinosaur Provincial Park in 1988 as part of the Tyrrell Museum's volunteer program he...

Cranial shape and correlated characters in crocodilian evolution . 2008. R. Sadleir and P. Makovivky. J. of Evol. Bio. 21: 1578 – 1596. ABST...

The teeth suggest Heterodontosaurus practiced occasional omnivory: the canines were used for defense or for adding small animals such as in...

An End to Endless Forms: Epistasis, Phenotype Distribution Bias, and Nonuniform Evolution . 2008. E. Borenstein and D.C. Krakauer. PLoS Comp...

Art by Mark Schultz Mark Schultz’s Centrosaurus brinkmani print was a hit at last week’s SVP meeting. As promised, I’ve now got time to o...

Gigantism in unique biogenic magnetite at the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum . 2008. Dirk Schumann et al. PNAS published ahead of print Oc...

A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers . 2008. F. Zhang et al. Nature 455: 1105-1108. Epidexipteryx ,...

Temperature-dependent sex-biased embryo mortality in a bird . 2008. Y. Eiby et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2703-2706. The id...

Polar dinosaurs on parade: a review of dinosaur migration . 2008. P. Bell and E. Snively. Alcheringa 32: 271-284. image Contrary to popular ...

A Wet Interdune Dinosaur Trampled Surface in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Coyote Buttes, Arizona: Rare Preservation of Multiple Track Type...

The Miller Volcanic Spark Discharge Experiment . 2008. A. P. Johnson et al. Science 322: 404 The building blocks of life may have emerged in...

Paleontologists have long debated the function of the strange, bony crests on the heads of the duck-billed dinosaurs known as lambeosaurs. T...

The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae . 2008. J. Downs et al. Nature 455: 925-929. Today, the team that discovered Tiktaalik in the ...

From Today In Science History : In 1827, Charles Darwin was accepted into Christ's College at Cambridge , but did not start until winter...

Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution . 2008. G.T. Lloyd et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2483-2490. Click to en...