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A new look for Typothorax 21 May 2010 | 04:46 pm
Over the past year or so, I’ve been involved with reconstructing the aetosaur Typothorax coccinarum, based on two articulated skeletons found in eastern New Mexico. A paper describing these specimens ...
Asilisaurus kongwe 4 Mar 2010 | 10:52 am
Asilisaurus kongwe (foreground). Image by M.H. Donnelly, Field Museum From the Ruhuhu Basin Research Asilisaurus Page No time to treat this with more than a passing mention, but a letter in today’s N...
Fossilized Function and Behavior 4 Mar 2010 | 05:41 am
The big paleo news this week is the description of an 11 foot (3.5 meter) Cretaceous snake, Sanajeh indicus, found coiled around a dinosaur nest—apparently lying in wait for when the hard-to-swallow e...
Reconstructing Ptychodus 23 Feb 2010 | 02:33 pm
Today at Laelaps, Brian Switek posted a summary of new research (Shimada et al. 2010) on the Cretaceous shell-crushing shark Ptychodus (tie-KOE-duss). Like many fossil sharks, Ptychodus is primarily k...
The Paleobiology of Coelophysis Part III: Truly, Coelophysis? 14 Feb 2010 | 07:22 am
or, An International Corpse of Mystery Quick note: New readers might want to look at previous installments of the Paleobiology of Coelophysis (Parts 1 & 2) series before diving into this post. In or...
More Bistahieversor 13 Feb 2010 | 05:31 am
Tom Williamson, one of the scientists who described the new tyrannosaur Bistahieversor sealeyi, has written an excellent article for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science website on the...
Hairball 02.07.10 8 Feb 2010 | 01:04 pm
Several new (and newish) blogs in this weeks tangle of links: Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: a daily dose of Mesozoic megafauna. Highly recommended. This week’s pick: An interview with pterosaur re...
Hairball 01.31.10 1 Feb 2010 | 12:17 pm
This week’s tangle of links, coughed up for your examination: New basal alvarezsaur: Haplocheirus sollers. What’s an alvarezsaur? Dave Hone’s got it covered. Why is a basal one noteworthy? Jonah Ch...
Bistahieversor sealeyi 31 Jan 2010 | 11:34 am
Congratulations to Drs. Carr & Williamson on the publication of “The Bisti Beast,” whose description is the cover story in this month’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Bistahieversor sealeyi Ima...
The Paleobiology of Coelophysis Part II: Other Critters in the Quarry 28 Jan 2010 | 02:43 am
or, Token Diversity in a Dinosaur Graveyard Although fossils of the Triassic theropod Coelophysis bauri are by far the most numerous vertebrate remains preserved in blocks from the Whitaker quarry, s...
