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'Ceratops Cichlid
Ding! Ding! Ding!Above is an excellent, and sometimes heated, debate between Dr. Jack Horner- who posits that Torosaurus is the adult morph of Triceratops- and Dr. Nick Longrich- who maintains they are...
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"Jurassic Burglar Alarm" continued
So I have some updated pics from my "Jurassic Burglar Alarm" pic I am working on. Although I consider my art a little rough around the edges I get a lot from drawing- it opens up parts of the brain and...
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Planet Detritus
All right first things first, sorry it has got a little slow around here- we are not going anywhere. This is first and foremost a creative venture- and if I am not feeling it I am not going to force...
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Jurassic Burglar Alarm Final Edition
So I've been working on a picture for a couple of weeks now in color pencil. And since I've been staring at it so much while working on it I have grown kind of sick of it. Anyways there are some things...
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To Go Where No Crustacean Has Gone Before
I want to talk about a particularly interesting little critter I stumbled upon while doing some research on detritivores. Since this guys's story was new to me perhaps it is new to you.Hemilepistus...
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Paleo-Myth Number 5: Cenozoic: The Age of Mammals?
Speak of the Cenozoic (New Life) and you implicitly speak of what is commonly referred to as "the Age of Mammals". Although mammals were around during the Mesozoic and were very diverse in small size...
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Mud Bugs
Following in the theme of my last post I want to talk about another crustacean detritivore that has some unusual adaptations- burrowing crayfish.Now most are familiar with crayfish, crawdads, mud bugs,...
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Aquatic Fungi Down in a Slot Canyon
I just learned that the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is having its annual meeting in L.A. Its my hope that the visiting academia and professionals from around the world take a chance to explore...
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Rot n' Roll in the Mesozoic Muck
Regular readers of this blog ( all 5 of ya') will have picked up on the perseveration I have evinced on several of my recent posts with all things rotting, decaying and dead. Yes detritus, detritivory...
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Urine For Some Trouble... Renal Wars
Anyone who has kept or lived with cats is probably all too familiar with one of the more unfortunate byproducts of Felis domesticus- cat piss. Yes it is bad enough that they always have to deposit it...
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The Devil's Chew Toy
All right so one of my fave bands, Alice in Chains, put a nice big Triceratops skull on the cover of their new album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. The cover is quite nice in its simple effect but...
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Paleo-Myth Number 4: By Sheer Force of Will
I am not gonna lie, today the scathing reviews of After Earth coming out really made my day. I have been drumming up hostility for this movie for a while now. First of all, Jaden Smith is annoying-...
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Ankylosaurs Are Still Weird
Talarus plicatospineus James Kirkland (c)Ankylosaurs are friggin' weird man. I mean you can almost intuit that James Kirkland, who gave permission for me to use the photos here, is thinking that exact...
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20,000 Hits at da' Salad!!
Well I just passed 20,000 views which I guess is kind of a milestone in blogging culture. I felt pretty proud of myself that I achieved this feet in a little less than one year (1rst post was June 20,...
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Some drawings I did....
Dracorex hogwartsii or juvenile Pachycephalasaurus ?... depending on who you talk to. Pachycephalasaurids are, like other armored dinosaurs, weird not just because of their adornments- but for how they...
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Dinosaur "Alternative Foodstuffs"
Chances are whatever you eat, somebody probably has an opinion on why you should or should not be putting that food in your body. Especially in an increasingly hectic and perplexing world...
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Life and Death in the California Chaparral
A favorite past time of mine involves going out and exploring wild areas and always keeping an eye out for clues that may provide insight into how Mesozoic ecosystems may have worked. These "deep time...
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Dino Turf
mat-forming quillwort Isoetes tegetoformeansWell if you don't know, now you know, we here at da' salad have been going at it for a little over a year now. I'm sorry if you did not get to attend the...
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Brazilian Death Valley in the Cretaceous
Here is a link to a paper describing a paleoenvironment dating to the Neo-Aptian of south-east Brazil. The authors liken it to death valley in California; an inland hot, dry basin with alluvial...
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No More Ptacky Pterosaurs!!!
Although not exactly news to many people who follow the latest developments in pterosaurology, it is no overstatement to characterize pterosaur studies as going through a renaissance in the last 10...
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