Monday, May 31, 2010

Medusaceratops lokii

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© Luis Rey It's been a busy week for ceratopsids. Here's a nice Luis Rey illustration for a new chasmosaur from the Judith River For...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Hero of 50,000,000 B.C.

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© DC Comics A conceited big-game hunter gets transported to the past where he hunts a Styracosaurus with some aliens, and learns a valuable...

How To End An Ice Age

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Ventilation of the deep Southern Ocean and deglacial CO2 rise . 2010. L.C. Skinner, et al. Science 328: 1147 - 1151. Scientists have found t...

Alanqa saharicafrom, A New Pterosaur From Morocco

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A New Pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco . Ibrahim, N., et al. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10875. Scientist...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Coahuilaceratops , First Horned Dinosaur From Mexico

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A new species of horned dinosaur unearthed in Mexico has larger horns that any other species - up to 4 feet long - and has given scientists ...

Born This Day: Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton

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Daubenton (May 29, 1716 – Jan 1, 1800) was a French naturalist who was a prolific pioneer in the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontol...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Out of The Woods For 'Ardi'?

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A palaeoblog tip of the hat to Howie Post, creator of Anthro (here inked by Wally Wood), who passed away earlier this month. Ardipithecus ra...

Ajkaceratops kozmai, New Neoceratopsian from Europe

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A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities . 2010. A. Ősi, et al. Nature 465: 466-468. Abstract: Ceratopsians ...

Sinoceratops zhuchengensis, First Ceratopsid from China

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First ceratopsid dinosaur from China and its biogeographical Implications . 2010. Xu Xing, et al. Geology 55: 1631-1635 CLICK TO ENLARGE Ab...

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...

Died This Day: Ralph A. Bagnold

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From the always excellent Today in Science History : Bagnold (April 3, 1896 - May 28, 1990) was an English geologist who was a leading auth...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Nectocaris, A Primative Cephalopod from the Burges Shale

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Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian . 2010. M. R. Smith and J.-B. Caron. Nature 465: 469–472. Abstract [edit]: We reinterpr...

Jeyawati rugoculus

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Image by Lukas Panzarin Congrats to Andrew MacDonald for describing Jeyawati rugoculus , a 91 million year old basal hadrosauroid from west...

Born This Day: Sandra Shaw

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Although Sandra Shaw (May 27, 1913 – Feb. 16, 2000) had a short film career comprising a few, mostly uncredited film roles in 1933, her mos...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New Perspectives On Horned Dinosaurs Now Published

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Well, I got my copy directly from Indiana University Press , so I'm assuming that it will soon be available from all the usual sources. ...

Measuirng A Dinosaur's Body Temperature

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Body temperatures of modern and extinct vertebrates from 13C-18O bond abundances in bioapatite . 2010. R. A. Eagle, et al. PNAS published on...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Born This Day: Carolus Linnaeus

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From the Linnean Society : Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – Jan. 10, 1778) was born in Sweden. He headed an expedition to Lapland in 1732, travelli...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

Born This Day: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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...
Friday, May 21, 2010

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 ...