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Will new Dinosaur egg finds help unravel their behaviour?
Much can be learnt from the composition, distribution and construction of dinosaur eggs, so will this new find shed more light on the lives of Dinosaurs? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/82… more →
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Seward Peninsula Mastodon Tusk - "too old", therefore Too Old.
qmackie wrote 4 days ago: Worked 35,000 year old mammoth tusk from Alaska. Note scale! Source: Gelvin-Reymuller et al. This is … more →
Paisley Cave Update
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qmackie wrote 1 week ago: Paisley Cave human coprolite dating older than 14,000 cal BP. Source: PBS. There is a tantalizing ne … more →
Another snag for "Clovis First"
qmackie wrote 1 week ago: Mastodon! From: Science 20 November 2009 Abundant megafauna are important to the Clovis-First model … more →
Hip Hip Huzzah for Science Education...
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Benjamin Brooks wrote 1 week ago: …well for Biology at any rate. It has been announced by the powers that be (they being the cur … more →
Some specimens are more equal than others
David Hone wrote 1 week ago: I got into a discussion with my colleagues the other day about the merits of collecting multiple spe … more →
40 Foot Crocodile Was Real; Moby Dick Was Real; Tom Horn Was Real
symonsezwlky wrote 1 week ago: Sereno Compares Dogcroc with Supercroc Alligators and Crocodiles strike fear in people. Can you ima … more →
‘In a hole in the ground there lived...’
hypothesisnow wrote 2 weeks ago: ‘…a hobbit.’* Fossil ‘hobbits’ found on an Indonesian island and reported in Nature in 2004 ar … more →
New dinosaur species!
verdant1 wrote 2 weeks ago: As you may have noticed, dear reader, I do get rather excited about dinosaur stuff. This dates back … more →
Complex Career Conundrums
Benjamin Brooks wrote 2 weeks ago: Oh yes… even I, a lowly peasant and fairly useless linguist, can use alliteration… So I … more →
Dr. Jim Puts Down Dawkins' New Book
Dr. Jim wrote 3 weeks ago: Yup, I’ve finished it. It’s a pretty darn good read, too. The book is intended to provid … more →
Will new Dinosaur egg finds help unravel their behaviour?
erlaurie wrote 4 weeks ago: Much can be learnt from the composition, distribution and construction of dinosaur eggs, so will thi … more →
Friday mystery object #15
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PaoloV wrote 1 month ago: It’s Friday again and I feel it may be time to introduce an object from the area of my origina … more →
Clovis Exceptionalism Craters
qmackie wrote 1 month ago: An impactor (top) may have produced magnetic spherules (lower right), but similar spherules (lower l … more →
Fossils, fact and fiction
David Hone wrote 1 month ago: The title of this post is taken directly from a discussion given at the Royal Society on Monday that … more →
Meanwhile in Dinosaur Land
qmackie wrote 2 months ago: White Cedar fossil from McAbee Fossil Beds. It’s not just petroglyphs that have a hard time ge … more →
Diseased dinosaurs starved to death
hypothesisnow wrote 2 months ago: The mighty Tyrannosaurus rex suffered from a common infection found in modern birds, according to ne … more →
Petrified forest or petrified log jam?
paulgarner wrote 2 months ago: While I was in Arizona during the summer, I had the opportunity to visit Petrified Forest National P … more →
Pssst – wanna be a palaeontologist?
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David Hone wrote 2 months ago: My target audience on the Musings is, at least in my mind, are those people who are not experts in d … more →
Another New Species of Dinosaur Discovered!
europadanica wrote 3 months ago: According to this BBC News article, a new chapter in the ongoing saga of the dinosaurs is about to b … more →
