Paleontology

Sometimes A Fossil Plant Is A Fossil Baby Turtle

A new study re-examined these “plant” fossils from the mid-20th century and found that they weren’t plants at all: they were the fossilized remains of baby turtles. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2023 - 8:18am

Driftwood Canyon Fossil Beds

Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park covers 23 hectares of the Bulkley River Valley, on the east side of Driftwood Creek, a tributary of the Bulkley River, 10 km northeast of the town of Smithers in northern British Columbia.  ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 5:51am

Fossils, Limestone And Salt: Hallstatt

The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding specimens of more than 500 ammonite species. Along with diversified cephalopod fauna  — orthoceratids, nautiloids, ammonoids — we also see gastropods, bivalves, especiall ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 6:02am

Carnotaurus sastrei: Flesh Eating Bull

Carnotaurus sastrei, a genus of large theropod dinosaurs that roamed the southern tip of Argentina, South America during the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 69.9 million years ago. His name means "flesh-eating bull,' and he lives up to it. This fellow — ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 6:28am

Oil in Water Beauty: Euhoplites of Folkstone

Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. These lovelies have a pleasing chunkiness and oil-in-water coloring. Euhoplites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod from the Lower Cretaceous, characterized by strongly ribbed, more or less ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 6:39am

Zenaspis: Lower Devonian Bony Fish Of Podolia, Ukraine

A Devonian bony fish mortality plate showing a lower shield of Zenaspis podolica (Lankester, 1869) from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia, Ukraine. While war rages on in the Ukraine, our hearts go out to those who live and work here contributing much to ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 7:20am

Did Your Easter Egg Come From A Bunny Or A Dinosaur?

Palaeontologists have found that not all Easter eggs come from the same “parent” species-  some could be from dinosaurs, including a new species from the Pyrenees. An international group of researchers has helped to determine that dinosaurs have shaped the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2024 - 10:59am

More Like Lizards: Claim That T. Rex Was As Smart As Monkeys Refuted

A year ago, corporate media promoted the provocative claim that dinosaurs like Tyrannorsaurus rex had so many neurons they had to be substantially more intelligent than assumed, since these high neuron counts could directly inform on intelligence, metaboli ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2024 - 6:31am