Paleontology

Princeton's Paleobotanical Gardens

If you like to try your hand at new things and have a penchant for the old or shiny.. no not your dating taste, but something earthier... you may want to consider a trip to Vermillion Bluffs near the town of Princeton, British Columbia. Princeton has long ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jan 28 2010 - 5:00pm

Australia: Dinosaurs, Kangaroos, Kookaburras and Koalas

The dinosaurs of Australia disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous, as they did the world over. Their departure marked the end of the supercontinent of Gondwana. By the middle of the Eocene, some fifty-five million years ago, only Australia, Antarctica a ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Sep 3 2009 - 7:01pm

Unidentified Fossil Cephalopod

This guy Spillane has a quarry on his property in Illinois, and for years he's been selling limestone to landscaping companies. And for years, he's been seeing fossils in the rock--particularly, fossil cephalopods. ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 16 2009 - 3:16pm

Raptorex: T-Rex Ancestor Weighed As Much As A Man

A 9-foot dinosaur excavated illegally from northeastern China and purchased by a private collector who brought it to the attention of paleontologists (hey, they'll return it after they're done)  is about the same weight as a grown human yet had s ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:57pm

Alioramus Altai- Tiny Tyrannosaur With Horns Revealed

Tyrannosaurus rex has had an interesting few weeks- Raptorex kriegsteini, a man-sized ancestor, was unveiled a few weeks ago and now we find out that Alioramus altai —a horned, long-snouted, gracile cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex —shared the same environment ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:57pm

Dinosaurian Physiology Inherited By Birds? Archaeopteryx Imaging Study Says Rapid Bone Growth Not Necessary For Flight

Archaeopteryx (Urvogel) is the most primitive bird yet discovered.   Found in the 1860's, it has since been dated  to 150 million years ago but new microscopic imaging of its bone structure says this ancient critter grew less like what we think of as ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:57pm

Megafauna: Extinct Giants

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Article - Heidi Henderson - Oct 11 2009 - 12:36pm

Battle for Survival: Dinosaurs vs. Crurotarsans

Dinosaurs, long hailed as the rulers of the Triassic almost lost the title belt to a group of crocodilian upstarts, the crurotarsans. In a short lived battle for survival, geologically speaking, the two groups ran head-to-head for about thirty million yea ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Mar 23 2010 - 2:23pm

European Amateur Science Society Makes Major Dinosaur Discovery

For several years, a European amateur science group was on the trail of dinosaur prints and last spring they made a significant discovery. ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Oct 12 2009 - 12:21am

A Tale Of Two Feathers

A Tale Of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens) was a weekly serial publication at this time 150 years ago. My tale of two feathers is about dinosaurs and modern birds with a twist on feathers.   ...

Article - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 17 2009 - 8:37am