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Old 14-12-2014, 11:25
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A couple of recent articles from the Laelaps blog on National Geographic.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....-the-mastodon/

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....dy-prehistory/
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Old 17-12-2014, 09:28
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A few articles about the colossal Ammonite Parapuzosia seppenradensis with an estimated shell width of 2.55 to 3.5 metres and a minimum weight of around a ton and a half this great cephalopod was slighty bigger than the ones you can find on the beach.

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/...rapuzosia.html

http://www.paleonature.org/education...il-of-the-year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapuzosia_seppenradensis

And some superb size charts also featuring the gigantic Orthoconic cephalopod genus Cameroceras in a thread on Tonmo.

https://www.tonmo.com/community/thre...mmonite.17222/

A few articles on that massive beast are here.

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/...meroceras.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroceras

Finally a list of giant prehistoric cephalopods.

http://pristichampsus.deviantart.com...pods-440058910
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Old 20-12-2014, 10:31
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One of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs that you have never heard off - the massive hump backed sauropod hunter Acrocanthosaurus atokensis.

It is also one of the few giant theropods to be known from an almost complete skeleton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrocanthosaurus

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/...thosaurus.html

http://www.bhigr.com/store/home.php?cat=28

Some excellent reconstructions of which the first is my favourite because of the plumage.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...is-d5kvkj2.jpg

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...on-d373jm1.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...es-d4g5ful.jpg

http://www.csotonyi.com/Acrocanthosaurus_atokensis.jpg

This one is almost impressionist - very atmospheric In my opinion.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/20...y_rhill555.jpg
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Old 20-12-2014, 12:44
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For the last couple of months I've had a Tyrannosaurus Rex pic as my wallpaper.

It's a specimen from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_skeleton.jpg
I'd love to go see Sue in Chicago.

What I love about the tyrannosaur family is how varied and prolific it is. One of the most interesting of all dinosaur families imo.
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Old 20-12-2014, 12:45
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Here's a great story from this morning. Computer programmer finds full ichthyosaur in Wales.

Better than binary any day!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-s...wales-30522904

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Ichthyosaur
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Old 20-12-2014, 13:16
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I'd love to go see Sue in Chicago.

What I love about the tyrannosaur family is how varied and prolific it is. One of the most interesting of all dinosaur families imo.
Indeed it is.

And just for you here is some Tyrannosaurus rex porn - sadly no huge 70's tashes but there is a link to some cheesy music to go with the illustration!

https://luisvrey.files.wordpress.com...6/tyr-sexb.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fYfdlKIon4
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Old 20-12-2014, 15:54
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Couple of articles: One on recovery post-Permian extinction
http://news.yahoo.com/low-oxygen-hob...115752898.html
not adding much, but a simple review. Loved the comment "In the first 500,000 years [after the die-off], the animals were not happy"
and one on pyritisation of fossils
http://news.yahoo.com/fools-gold-pre...113005674.html
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Old 20-12-2014, 22:13
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A couple of people's personal top ten paleontological discoveries of 2014 - some good choices in my opinion.

http://megabass22.deviantart.com/jou...2014-498821936

http://lordofstamps.deviantart.com/j...2014-500698883
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Old 22-12-2014, 17:27
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The highly diverse Tyrannosaurid family tree.

Every one of these species is absolutely fascinating in their own right - look them all up if you are at all interested in these advanced theropods.

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploa...ily%20tree.jpg
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Old 22-12-2014, 18:06
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New research shows dinosaurs adapted very well to the cold at first
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Old 22-12-2014, 18:12
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New research shows dinosaurs adapted very well to the cold at first
Indeed they did!

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Old 23-12-2014, 13:15
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A nice article on Giganotosaurus carolinii - currently the closest rival to Tyrannosaurus rex as far as carnivorous dinosaur body mass is concerned (now that Spinosaurus has been found to weigh a 'mere' 7 tons).

Whenever a new species of enormous theropod is discovered it gets overhyped by the media as being bigger than rex. But every single time this has eventually proven to be not the case (so far).

Acrocanthosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Carcharadontosaurus, Mapusaurus, Tyrannotitan and Spinosaurus.

Rex was heavier than all of the leading contenders (if very slightly shorter than a couple) although it is quite close and I suspect that rex and the others approached the biomechanical limits for a terrestrial predator.

However rex was more heavily built, probably faster, had a relatively huge brain, more advanced binocular vision, bigger teeth and a far more powerful bite when compared to the others.

Still the King (or Queen as the females were probably larger)?

In my eyes - yes.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/59815...giganotosaurus
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Old 23-12-2014, 19:21
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Old 23-12-2014, 20:50
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A brief review of the past year in human DNA research:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...reveal-secrets
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Old 23-12-2014, 23:35
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I like it.

Though I don't post much in this thread, I do like dipping in occasionally to read new articles.
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Old 23-12-2014, 23:47
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS KS.
Christmas present for you:

astounding find of Acanthodes with eye tissue intact that adds to out knowledge of vision
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-eye-ce...164945078.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ods-cones.html
and a new reveal on the genetics of how limbs evolved, with reference to and library pics of the tetrapod Tiktaalik:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...rawl-land.html

Both Daily Mirror
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Old 24-12-2014, 20:47
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS KS.
Christmas present for you:

astounding find of Acanthodes with eye tissue intact that adds to out knowledge of vision
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-eye-ce...164945078.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ods-cones.html
and a new reveal on the genetics of how limbs evolved, with reference to and library pics of the tetrapod Tiktaalik:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...rawl-land.html

Both Daily Mirror
Thanks Dave.

A busy to post much over the last day or so for obvious reasons.

Anyway in true Tyrannosaur (but not too festive) style - Happy Christmas to anyone who enjoys reading this thread.

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Old 24-12-2014, 20:48
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I like it.

Though I don't post much in this thread, I do like dipping in occasionally to read new articles.
Thank you very much.
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Old 24-12-2014, 20:51
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Old 24-12-2014, 21:26
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Old 24-12-2014, 22:01
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Father Christmas looks suspiciously like Charles Darwin here.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/20...i1-d5p6ay3.png
Though when Darwin came up with his theory he didn't have a beard.
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Old 24-12-2014, 22:47
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Though when Darwin came up with his theory he didn't have a beard.
True - but Father Christmas does!
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Old 27-12-2014, 20:50
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Just to keep the thread ticking over.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/di...saur-1.2878979

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/scien...covery-n271826

http://www.krank.ie/category/sci/nat...coveries-2014/
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Old 29-12-2014, 20:03
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A huge 12 metre long skeleton of a robust-morph, mature (probably female) T.rex is to be displayed at Leiden.

http://www.naturalis.nl/en/news/coll...l-come-leiden/

A nice video talk on the beast and why palaeontology is important in todays world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRQFkR7I8RE

I do love Tyrannosaurus rex - and this beautiful black and white reconstruction of an adorable little baby shows why.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...dd-d8abwvm.jpg

At the other end of the scale another nice photo showing the sheer size of the monstrous, 12.3 metres long, 10 ton + Sue.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...eld_Museum.jpg
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Old 30-12-2014, 00:25
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Yes, it's Trilobitomorpha time with this picture here: http://tinypic.com/r/fq4hz/8

The creature on the right is a late origin fossil trilobite from the early Carboniferous period and it was a surprise Christmas present for me. It's next to a 15cm/6ins ruler for scale with my best ammonite fossil on the other side.

More about the long lasting trilobites here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite and there's an evolutionary diagram here http://www.trilobites.info/triloclass2009.png.
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