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Shark Bay
Ok, Ok, Ok- after the throngs of requests for a new post from my minion(s ?) I got something for ya' all. Honestly I just started Calculus and Organic Chemistry so about a post a week is how it will be...
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Sinocalliopteryx gigas: "Get in My Belly"
Stuff just keeps coming out that I can't ignore...Here is the abstract:Two skeletons of the large compsognathid Sinocalliopteryx gigas include intact abdominal contents. Both specimens come from the...
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Planet Predator II: Kem Kem
(C) Troco. One of my fave recent images, read more about it hereSometimes specific geologic formations take on a special, almost mythical, aspect to them. The Kem Kem beds of Morocco and Algeria...
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This Island Earth Rundown
So for any new readers of da' salad I wanted to do a rundown of the blogposts that connect to the larger argument I started presenting in This Island Earth Part III Big Guy Bias.This Island Earth Here...
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This Island Earth Part IIIc: Theropod Wars
So you may have noticed it has got a little toothy around here as of late... what with all the talk about sharks, top down control, intraguild predation, theropods of Kem Kem- I thought this was a blog...
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Why You Can Hunt Bison, But Not Moose, on Kodiak Island, Alaska
Why can you go to Kodiak Island, Alaska and apply for a permit to hunt bison (Bison bison bison) but not moose (Alces alces)? Well the long and short of it is that moose do not exist on Kodiak Island,...
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This Island Earth IIIc: Theropod Wars continued...
(c) Heinrich Mallison. read hereThe pic above depicts a veritable "feeding frenzy" of piscivorous birds during feeding time at the Berlin Zoo. It highlights some of the variety of forms fish eating...
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Paleo-Myth Number 6: Giant Insect Size Through Time
Ok so its been a little bit since I put up a paleo-myth since my last one here where I covered the issue of dinosaur competitive exclusion of mammals during the Mesozoic ( Paleo Myth 10, 9, and 8 btw)....
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Planet Parasite
Tick before and after feedingFew things remind can remind you that you are part of the food chain in a more disturbing manner than the site of a tick crawling up your leg, or, worse yet- the site of...
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Planet Parasite II: Battles in the North
In the first episode of Planet Parasite we looked at how, despite their overwhelming majority in species count compared to free living organisms, parasites have been traditionally overlooked as...
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"Global Weirding" in the Cretaceous
Geophysical fluids dynamic model of equatorial current showing persistent eddies (c)Earth Sci-Rev 2012 OctWell here in 'Merica we are in the midst of the great presidential race of Mitt vs Obama 2012,...
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Cowboys and Dinosaurs
For some reason cowboys and dinosaurs always seem to mesh together well for me. Maybe it is their shared history of the American west. Indeed when Triceratops skulls started popping up in the west they...
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Cheirolepidiaceae
Frenelopsis teixierae. from Mendes et al 2010. Note similarity to pickleweed at end of postIn visualizing what the equatorial arid belt looked like during the Mesozoic one can not ignore perhaps the...
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Planet Parasite III: Battles in the North continued
As much as I would like this blog to remain apolitical I do find it ironic that Hurricane Sally aka "Frankenstorm" is poised to plow into the Northeast around Halloween and potentially play a pivotal...
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Cheilanthoid Ferns: Ferns in the Desert
Ferns in the desert? You must be kidding right, ferns live in shady, damp areas like steamy tropical rain-forests or old growth conifer forests of the Pacific northwest. But the desert, come on now.A...
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Happy Halloween from da' Salad!!!!
Dinosaurs, Zombies, UFO's, Pteradactyls and a "real" Dracula- need I say more?Cheers!
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Rynchocephalian Domination
Here.This recently published paper on a new sphenodont rynchocephalian from the upper Jurassic of Germany further bolsters an emerging view of sphenodonts not as conservative archaic lizard like...
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Selaginella lepidophylla
Selaginella lepidophylla, aka Rose of Jericho, resurrection plant, dinosaur plant, siempre vive, stone flower and doradillo, is a true desert spikemoss of the family Selaginellaceae. As seen in the...
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Cycas debaoensis
(c) ChaninOver at Jurassic Garden you can get a 1 inch seedling Cycas debaoensis for $150.00 or an 11.25" specimen for a little over $3, 500. That this rare and only recently discovered (late 90's)...
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