The Living Microraptor
January – It is sunrise on a chilly morning in northeastern China, 125 million years ago. We are in an enormous forest on the edge of a system of lakes. […]
Tested With Adam Savage!
I have always wanted to meet Adam Savageand, thanks to my work, I did! His show, Tested, https://www.tested.com/watch came by our American Museum of Natural History studio right before the […]
Lusognathus almadrava!
Yes! Now it can be told! The amazing Lusognathus was just published. It has these bizarre splayed, but strong-looking teeth. I almost wonder if it was basically a flying clam […]
The Doctor Responds!
Thank you so much to Doctor Kershenbaum for his helpful reply! For my part I certainly agree that competition would have a major impact on the morphology of alien life […]
Bilateral Supremacy
As I mentioned in the last post, in his new book, The Zoologist’s Guide To The Galaxy, Arik Kershenbaum makes a well -organized and stepwise case for the hypothesis that, […]
Alien Life: Convergence vs. Phylogenetic Signal
I am reading a great new book by Dr. Arik Kershenbaum, a Zoologist at Cambridge University. His career is in top-quality scientific investigation of animal communication. But this new book […]
The Bennettite Wielandiella
I recently did a little more work on bennettites. This is my own version of Wielandiella angustifolia, based on the magnificent recent papers by Christian Pott and his co-authors.
Flattering!
The good people at Scienceline have put up a very flattering profile on me. https://scienceline.org/2019/11/building-the-most-accurate-dinosaur/
Dinosaur Art II: Titan Books
Jehol Hillside – work in progress
forest just upland from a lakeshore, Yixian Formation, 123 million years ago. In the foreground trunks of Pityocladus and Elatocladus are fallen. Cladophlebis is the upright stem and foliage […]
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