Paleontology

Triceratops Horns Not Just For Good Looks

Triceratops had three horns but it was not just to impress the females, says a research study led by Andrew Farke, curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, located on the campus of The Webb Schools.    They used them to settle disputes as wel. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 10:36pm

Suddenly G = 32 ft / sec2. The Dinosaurs sat down, and they couldnt get up.

The big five extinctions  are  regularly the subject of   many investigations, and speculations regarding the causes, the main  culprits  being  often put  down to  asteroid, or other  extra terrestial impacts.  Ongoing investigations  by  paleontologists ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Feb 11 2009 - 12:02pm

Gods & Cephalopods

A great temple to the god Amon was built at Karnak in Upper Egypt around c. 1785. It is from Amon that we get his cephalopod namesake, the ammonites and also the name origin for the compound ammonia or NH 3. ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - May 23 2009 - 8:11pm

Fossil Sites Of The Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is an area of extreme natural beauty and rich fossil deposits. While we do not have the dinosaur bragging rights of our cousins to the east and south, we have beautiful plant, mammal and marine fossils that can be counted as some of ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Jun 20 2009 - 2:17pm

The Fossils Of Chuckanut Drive

Chuckanut Drive, in northwestern Washington provides a visual feast from sea to sky.  An amazing array of plants and animals call this coastline home. For the fossil enthusiast, it is a chance to slip back in time and have a bird’s eye view to a more trop ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Feb 22 2009 - 3:20pm

Unearthing Mongolia: Gigantoraptor Erlianensis

The Paleontologist community in China and around the world are all aflutter over a recent find in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia. Known more for its heavy oil potential and favorite export- pollution, northeastern China is the preferred stomping groun ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Nov 21 2009 - 2:01am

Mongolia's 70-Million Year Old Big Bird... And Sexy Gene Pool

The Paleontologist community in China and around the world are all aflutter over a recent find in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia. Known more for its heavy oil potential and favorite export- pollution, northeastern China is the preferred stomping groun ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Dec 19 2012 - 11:50am

Cache Creek: Cowboys And Fossils A Plenty

Looking for a great family vacation this summer? If you happen to be in BC's glorious interior, stop by and visit Cache Creek, the gateway to B.C.'s Cariboo Country. They boast cowboys aplenty, horses and, as it happens, some great fossil locali ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Oct 3 2009 - 12:53pm

Dinosaur BMI: Computer Model Decides Fattysaurus Versus Thinnysaurus

A team of biomechanical and paleontological researchers at University of Manchester are exploring a question that teenaged dinosaur girls have wondered for years: how thin should a dinosaur model be? Karl Bates and his team built their supermodels using a ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Feb 22 2009 - 12:49pm

The Echo Of Mass Extinction From 65 Million Years Ago

Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. "The evolutionary legacy of the end-Cr ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2009 - 3:11pm