Paleontology

for something else entirely. By all accounts these proboscidean remains were that of the mythical ogre ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jun 23 2009 - 5:09pm

for something else entirely. By all accounts these proboscidean remains were that of the mythical ogre ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Aug 20 2009 - 8:53pm

end-Devonian extinction. This makes it all the more ironic, I would say, and makes him even more deserving of ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Mar 17 2011 - 8:02am

grained silty sediment) after all. Sob.--- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3):1–21, May 2011 ...

Blog Post - Oliver Knevitt - May 10 2011 - 12:09pm

The eleventh known specimen of Archaeopteryx is still in private hands. Like all other examples of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2014 - 10:31am

flight in living birds. Graphic: Julius Csotonyi They were able to map biomechanical limits to all these ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2020 - 11:07am

true sharks at all. Rather, they are ghost sharks that belong to the subclass Holocephali (chimaera), ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Aug 23 2021 - 2:49pm

intriguingly of all, though: most trilobite groups sailed straight through the event, (though admittedly, ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jun 2 2011 - 11:07am

feathers don't imply bird at all. Velociraptor, by Matt Martyniu k. Not so scary now, right? The next ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jul 29 2011 - 12:39am

all vertebrates, rather than each group evolving a backbone independently. Now, let's throw ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jun 3 2013 - 5:51pm

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