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Birds are exceptionally intelligent, rivalling mammals in relative brain size and behavioural complexity. They evolved from a lineage of theropods more than 150 million years ago. Enantiornithes were the most diverse group of Mesozoic birds. The [...]
Nearly a year ago, I got an email from Liam Shen, who was interested in getting seriously involved in palaeontology. He asked for advice on doing a Ph.D part time, and I realised what what I had to say in reply might be of broader interest. Here’s [...]
MPA-ESP student Jada Johnson believes in the power of policy to drive meaningful and sustainable solutions for historically underserved
Back in 2013, John Conway was doing some paintings and Darren Naish was drawing lots of animals for a book. I chipped in to help with their artwork and some back and forth ensued. All this happened on Twitter, and I wrote it up in an SV-POW! post [...]
We had another fire in the high hills the other day. I was standing on Grizzly Peak Boulevard at the time, seven miles north, and saw the smoke plume start to rise. My heart sank, not just dreading the destruction that might come, not just knowing [...]
Continuing our theme of folding structures, today's ELI is 'Swiss roll surgery; investigating geological structures and their outcrops using sponge rolls'.This activity can be used in any science or geography lesson when folded and faulted [...]
¿Te gusta el cine de dinosaurios? Si eres habitual de este blog, la respuesta es afirmativa casi con total seguridad. ¿Te gusta el cine de dinosaurios... sin dinosaurios? Ahí ya es algo más difícil responder, ¿verdad? Pues justamente eso es [...]
This picture is of a Gyronchus macropterus puffer toothfish fossil. It existed during the late Jurassic period. The fossil was found in Eichstätt, Germany.
Fossil was on display at the Natural
History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum [...]
We live in stupid times. As I write this, Google Scholar’s front page is advertising “New! AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim per-section bullets, deep read what you need”. Yes: it’s using AI to provide a short summary of what’s in a [...]
Vista aérea del yacimiento paleontológico de Algora (Guadalajara), durante su excavación
El Mesozoico es un relativamente largo lapso temporal, que comenzó hace algo más de 250 millones de años, concluyendo con la bien conocida extinción [...]