Posts tagged as dinosaurs
Squirrel Frenches Toy
Here you will find a picture of a squirrel making out with a plastic dinosaur.
Please Bring Back "Jurassic Fight Club"!
"Jurassic Fight Club" was a one-season series on the History Channel, and I am a dedicated fan. I’d bet I’m one of about six people in the world who can claim this, and I am definitely the only one with a full set of adult teeth. I consumed all twelve gripping episodes. I follow the host, “Dinosaur George” Blasing on Twitter, and I hold the high score in their online game Turf Wars. I also hold the #2, #5 and #9 spots, presumably because I’ve been competing against four-year-olds. READ MORE
Sauropod Swindle! The Monstrous Lies of "The World's Largest Dinosaurs"
“Leave it as at is,” Theodore Roosevelt once said about the wonders of the Precambrian: “The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” READ MORE
Horniest Dinosaur Ever Discovered In Utah
It's always funny to read about the discovery of "new dinosaurs." It's like when the original incarnation of Spinal Tap then called "The Originals" found out there was another band called "The Originals," and so they had to change their name to "The New Originals." (Which is a much better names, really.) Anyway, a new, or at least, heretofore undiscovered, type of dinosaur has indeed been found in Utah. READ MORE
Pssst, Wanna Buy A Raptorex Skull?
"Sereno, who has conducted extensive fieldwork in the region, says he has visited villages where the fossil trade is the livelihood for the majority of residents... He recalls entering one tunnel in China, guided by candlelight, that was dug by hand about 900 feet into the side of the mountain. 'There were no wood supports or anything. It was so deep in the side of the mountain, it actually went through an entire valley,' he says. 'There is an untold number of people-probably not thousands, but hundreds-that have been buried alive in the course of trying to find these dinosaurs.'" READ MORE
I Am Proud To Live In A World Where We Can Watch Dinosaurs Fucking
I don't know what you guys have planned for Valentine's Day, but I am going to be parked in front of my TV in rapt attention to what is sure to be the most amazing program of the year. Let's get some of that press release action! READ MORE
Everything You Thought You Knew About Anomalocaris Is Wrong
Crack bit of paleontological detective work detailed in a new Nature article about Anomalocaris, a three-foot-long shrimp-like creature widely believed to have dominated the seas of the Paleozoic era's Cambrian period by "hunting and eating hard-shelled prey such as trilobites." In a recent computer-assisted analysis of fossilized Anomalocaris mouth parts, Amherst College's Whitey Hagadorn determined that the "Tyranosaurus rex of the Cambrian" lacked the chomping power to match its reputation. "Everyone shows it grabbing trilobites and munching them. Like a cookie monster," Hagadorn says. "Not possible." Hagadorn suggests Anomalocaris subsisted on a softer diet of jellyfish and worms, or maybe just filtered plankton. In turn, Hagedorn's colleagues insist that his is not the last word on the matter. Says Dave Rudkin of the Royal Ontario Museum, "What we need is to find Anomalocaris poop."
