NPR => Huge ‘Terror Bird’ Fossil Discovered in PatagoniaScientists have discovered a skull belonging to a hook-beaked bird that ruled the grasslands of South America…. It was the largest bird ever and the top predator in South America millions of years ago.South America must have been a fun place back in the Pleistocene.
The discovery of a new (extinct) species of fish hunting, dolphin-sized whales in Australia.
A couple months ago, I reported about Leonardo, the most amazingly preserved fossil. Leonardo mummified before fossilizing, making him an unbelievably preserved specimen, complete with tissue that normally does not fossilize, like his beak, his toenails, skin and even the contents of his stomach!
=> news @ nature.com – Slouching out of Gondwana – The ancestor of today’s crocodiles was probably Australian.
BBC News => Early web-spinner found in amberTrue orb weaving spiders found trapped in amber from 121-115 million years ago are the oldest of their type yet found.Now, if only the can find some good, dinosaur blood-engorged mosquitoes so they can create Jurassic Park.
DenverPost.com => Stegosaur tracks a colossal findNew Stegosaur footprints found near Denver, Co.The state’s first footprints of a stegosaur – Colorado’s official fossil – have been discovered near this foothills town 15 miles west of Denver.Two new dinosaur track sites found by staff and volunteers of the Morrison Natural History Museum also include footprints made by two or three not-yet-identified and potentially new dinosaurs.States have official dinosaurs? I want an official dinosaur.
I’m still annoyed at the stupid name they gave this new specimen, but it is turning out to have some fascinating consequences. Dracorex is in the pachycephalosaur family, a group of dinosaurs typically associated with large, domed, heavily-fortified skulls.
BBC NEWS => Mammoth skeleton found in SiberiaA very rare, complete mammoth skeleton has been found exposed by receding flood waters on the banks of a reservoir. The Russians haven’t got enough money to dig it out, though.
Source: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum CommissionNew Dinosaur Species Gets a Touch of Harry Potter With Help From PHMC StafferMonday May 22, 3:32 pm ETDracorex hogwartsia is Tribute to J…. Rowling SeriesHARRISBURG, Pa., May 22 /PRNewswire/ — Visitors to the State Museum can get a taste of Harry Potter and brush with prehistoric America with a newly discovered dinosaur species that got its name thanks to the help of a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission paleontologist.ADVERTISEMENTPHMC paleontologist Robert M.
The London Sunday Times => Bigfoot’s 20,000-year-old walkabout – Newspaper Edition – Times Online The London Sunday Times had this article about fossilized 20,000 year old hominid footprints found in Australia. Fossilized footprints are particularly fascinating. Fossilized bones, trees and plants represent a preservation of death. They can tell us a lot about the structure … Read more