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My three-part series on the 'explosion of Iguanodon' is now complete and up on the Scientific American guest blog: part I is here, part II here, and part III here. Part III wraps things up and looks briefly at the social inertia that has held back [...]
“If temperatures rise more than 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius (3 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit) above those of modern times, parts of Peru and Bolivia will become a desert-like setting.” – Quoted from the National Science Foundation news [...]
I'm back in Berlin and I'm really fine, but it took me more than three weeks to find some quiet moment because the new semester kick-started and November is really busy, too. Nonetheless, I want to dedicate this blog entry to my trip to the [...]
The latest in my line of palaeoart inteviews, (following hot on the heels of that from Mark Hallett) is with Todd Marshall. Todd first came to my serious attention at least thanks to his illustrations of pterosaurs in Dave Unwin’s book and as [...]
Southwest Greenland. In among the even older rocks is a huge intrusive igneous complex formed more than a billion years ago. Exhumed by erosion to form the dramatic topography of fjords and glacial terrains and the subject of geological
Here’s an interesting video about leaf-cutter ants and the impressive impact that such a small creature can have on their surroundings. Leaf-cutter ants are found mainly in Central America and South
Not Triassic but sill extremely significant for work on Triassic archosauromorphs as Youngina is often used as an outgroup for phylogenetic studies of this clade. Great new information, extremely cool, and of course open access!
Gardner, N. M., [...]
Here are pictures of Tröllaskagi from a town called Sauðárkrókur. Tröllaskagi to the north from Sauðárkrókur. Click on the picture for larger resolution. Tröllaskagi to the east from Sauðárkrókur. Click on the picture for larger [...]
An article on the CNN website describes a nuclear waste repository being built in Finland that is designed to last 100,000
Mid-week I happened to on my way home from a petroleum cleanup site in Houlton when she called me. Wife found a small private farm advertising the 5 week old Aussie Pups the Uncle Henrys. I was right near by and planned to meet her at the [...]