Some recent press coverage of our Pterosaurs show. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/science/behind-the-scenes-at-pterosaurs-flight-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs.html?_r=0 http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2014/04/01/science/01scitimes-podcast/20140401-scitimes-podcast.mp3
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
August 31, 2012 Could early birds fly well, could they fly at all? The balance of evidence tips back and forth as new anatomical studies probe the issue from different […]
Microraptor Wings 4 – Scapular Orientation and Glenoid Mobility 7/28/2011 In 2006 Dr. Phil Senter published two scientific papers in which he stated that non – avian theropods have ventral […]
The title is a triple entendre. 1) Dinosaurs turn out to be soft, rather than rough, because they were covered with fluffy filaments or feathers 2) I am particularly interested […]
