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The Great Dying
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, on 1/21/05, reported on a recent article in the journal Science. The article, in the Post is Volcanic heat gets blame for extictions. The extinction event occured...
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Eocene Insect and Plant Diversity in South America
Since I have an anthropology background I really don’t post that much on plants and insects (What, no bones? Inconceivable!) But I found this really fascinating.Researchers collected over 3,500 fossils...
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330 Million Year Old Amphibian Imprints Discovered
This is cool! Science Daily is reporting on the discovery of 330 million year old fossil imprints discovered in Pennsylvania. The imprints are not actually fossils in the sense of being mineralized...
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Fossils and Food Chains
I don’t know how I missed this yesterday. National Geographic has an article on an interesting fossil, dating to about 290 MYA (basically, the beginning of the Permian) , that provides some interesting...
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Interesting Fossil Pictures
From Acta Paleontologica Polonica. The picture below is of “Sublethal injuries in Early Devonian cephalopod shells” Sculptural asymmetry, irregular rib course and isolated septa in various early...
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Dinosaur Embryos: Lufengosaurus
I’m currently working my way through the Australopithecus sediba articles mentioned in the previous post. In the meantime, in wandering around the internet there are a number of things make a science...
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Dinosaur Eggs: Troodon formosus
The other day I mentioned an interesting study on dinosaur embryos, a day or so later a study on incubation strategies in Troodon was published in Paleobiology. I don’t have access to this article so I...
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