Unfortunately, we don't have time machines to take us back to the time of the pterosaurs, but we do have paleontologists, scientists who study and interpret fossils. They've been able to use old rocks and bones to discover some pretty amazing things about how these creatures evolved, what...
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Also, do you remember a 1970s Neiman Marcus catalog having a His and Her Gifts being dinosaur hunts? June 1st, 2011 at 6:59 am Some Paleoartist Says: I wonder if anyone in olden days wrote an article where they cried and cried about how the mean scientists retroactively ruined their ...
We spent a full day in Ulaanbaatar exploring outside of the stark Soviet communist-style architecture and moving past the city’s general dodgy feeling. There’s plenty to see and do here, including a walk through the modernSukhbaatar (Parliament) Square, the Gandan Monastery, the National His...
We also know that functional differences between duplicate genes can originate in several different ways, including mutations that directly impart new functions, subdivision of ancestral functions and selection for changes in gene dosage. Interestingly, in many cases the 'new' function of one copy is...
Fast forward 137 years, and new discoveries of fossils with quills are continuing to rewrite the textbooks, not just on bird origins but across the entire dinosaur family tree. The attempt by palaeontologists to retrace the path of bird evolution makes for a rolicking tale full of...
There’s lots of good stuff here, and there was more back and forth following, which I won’t trouble you with. But what I came away with was the idea that maybe the scale factor was wrong. And the thing to do, I thought, was to make my own sealed-room reconstruction and see ho...
We also don’t know the fossilization rates of other long-extinct dinosaurs. If we have many fossils of one species, does that mean they were more common than T. rex, or do we simply recover their fossils more often? How many Tyrannosaurus rex walked the Earth? “Sue” is the nickname...
Join the team in the Fossil Preparation Laboratory and spend the day prepping real dinosaur fossils for display. Prep-a-dino over two days, with a mate, for just $169 per person; this package includes a guided tour of the laboratory, collection room and dinosaur canyon. Plus, a one-year...
When NASA’s Perseverance rover launches this summer, it will face one of the most ambitious missions in any space exploration project to date: To search forevidence of life on Mars. If there ever was life on Mars, there almost certainly isn’t now —...