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Laramidian Dino Morpho-Eco-Head Space Trippin'
Available for free here on PLOSone is a new paper analyzing the ecomorphology of some herbivorous dinosaurs from Dinosaur Park, Alberta Canada dating to the Upper Campanian of the Cretaceous. The...
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New Blog on Beavers!!
Make sure to check out my new blog southland beaver, on beavers and potential efforts to restore beavers in southern California!!!First post is interview with Heidi Perryman of Worth A...
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Return of the Land Shark
PNAS. Burnham et al (c)The paleo world is all abuzz about the latest discovery of possible Tyrannosaurus rex induced damage on an Edmontosaurus caudal vertebrae- in which part of the tooth was left...
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More Flesh Rippin' Theropods
Blogging is a funny thing. You can spend loads of effort/time on a post that you consider pretty neat, interesting, and unique. But it only receives a trickle of hits. And then you can pump out a quick...
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Kem-Kem Returns!!! and The Commensal Dinosaur
Here is a cool video on the Kem-Kem by RaptorX over at Mesozoic Archives where he also has a recent post on Pacific Rim stuff and the Kem-Kem. Evidently there is a new paper out, but it is behind a...
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Azolla - the Fern that Took Over the Arctic Ocean?
Wolfgang Mackowiack, Univ Cologne, GermanyTransmission Electron Micro of Azolla Megaspore. Wiki CommonsOK enough flesh rippin' theropods and #dinomania#awesomebro- back to boring plants. And the plant...
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Dino Turf II
It might be a little bit embarrassing to admit but when I am gardening I do sometimes pretend I am a megaherbivore doing its thing to a landscape. Now I am not literally stomping and hollering about...
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Two New Papers. Giant Tortoises and Baobabs and Megaherbivore Phosphorous...
Two awesome new studies highlighting the importance of megaherbivores in ecosystems, especially with regards to their ability to move widely and distribute resources throughout the landscape.Giant...
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That's Nuts.
It should come as no surprise that I love the araucarian conifers. Their reptilian scale-like foliage, interesting trunk textures, evocative architecture, not to mention their near ubiquitous presence...
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Paleo-Myth Number 3: The "Living Fossil" Dilemma
Ok, its time to make a concerted effort to wrap up this paleo-myth series. I have had the list completed for quite some time but, you know, other stuff grabs my attention and blah, blah, blah. But at...
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Paleo-Myth Number 2: Fossil Bias Blinds Us
Let's do a little mental exercise.Consider one of the more epic movie franchises in history, say the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, the Godfather films. Now imagine you have never seen these movies nor...
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Paleo Myth Number 1: The Past Was More Awesome Than the Present
Now I might get some slack for saying this, maybe some paleo-nerd rage directed my way, but I don't think Megalodon is worthy of all the bad-azzery attributed to it. Why would I say this? Well first of...
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Biochemically Weaponized Cycads: Strangeria and Strangeria....
Although I just wrapped up my paleo-myth series if I can play monday morning quarter back I would like to add one more persistent myth that crops up again and again, that angiosperms invented animal...
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SVP in LA 2013!!! A Quick and Dirty Preview
It is no secret that the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology will be holding its annual meting in LA this year. I shook down the coffers at ol' antediluvian salad headquarters as the meeting costs a...
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Strange Ornithopods of South America
Talenkauen. Gabriel Lio (c)It's patently obvious that dinosaur paleontology, like all sciences, does not arrive devoid of cultural trappings and the limitations imposed on it by the socio-political...
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Guardian of the Forest
Evolutionary biology is rife with great sound bites that have, usually for worse, been appropriated for social means- nature red in tooth and claw, survival of the fittest- and the unfortunate,...
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Going GONZO at SVP 2013 Los Angeles
Giant bank towers, like inveterate tombstones surround the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles where the annual society of vertebrate paleontology conference takes place. I mean for a conference...
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Life and Death at a Southern Californian Estuary: Part I
I guess you would call this a photo essay, in the modern parlance, or a quasi taphonomic processes inspired rumination of a highly human modified but no less interesting habitat. But let us divest...
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Life and Death at a Southern Californian Estuary: Part II
Well all-righty then, if you are an American reader you probably spent yesterday stuffing your face scavenging a turkey carcass. And so in the spirit of all things dead and what happens to those dead...
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