Tyrannosaurus rex
100 years ago this month the American Museum of Natural History placed the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, AMNH 5027, on public display. This week an exquisite new specimen of T. rex has […]
Bennettites – The Latest
The life appearance of bennettites has been extremely hard to reconstruct. Just a handful of fossils of bennettite stems are known to science. Even fewer have attached leaves or cones, […]
New Pencil Drawings
A 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 in […]
Pterosaurs at the AMNH
Some recent press coverage of our Pterosaurs show. http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2014/04/01/science/01scitimes-podcast/20140401-scitimes-podcast.mp3
Life in the Jurassic Thicket.
In the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of China paleontologists have found the oldest known paravians: the animals that gave rise to birds. There is no reason to think that the […]
Bennettites: The Nearly Invisible Mesozoic Plants
This is the third installment of my series on bennettites and this time I will try to describe them, for paleoartists, in plain language. For more scientific language or references […]
Bennettite Paleoenvironments
Bennettites show up in the fossil record first in the Middle Triassic. Late Triassic beds around the world show many fronds of Anomozamites, Pterophyllum, and Zamites. Throughout the Jurassic bennettites […]
Bennettites (Cycadeoids)
Bennettitales (Cycadeoidales) I write to the paleo community today not because we have failed, but because we are succeeding like never before. We are ready to take on a […]
Deinonychus antirrhopus skeletal reconstruction
The new header on my blog’s first page is a skeletal reconstruction of Deinonychus that I did on a commission a few years back. I studied the osteology […]
Memoriam: Dr. Larry Martin
Dr. Larry Martin I would like to offer this brief essay about Larry Martin. He passed away on March 9th after a long and productive career as a Paleontologist, Professor, […]
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