You're very welcome.

The new salamander-like robot Pleurobot is super cool. Will they be in shops for xmas?

I would certainly buy one.

More on pterosaurs by the excellent Mark Witton this time about aquatic quad-launching.

We now know that is how they took to the air on land but taking off from water using this locomotive method is now also very feasible.

Look at his excellent illustrations and then look at the appalling bullshit that Jurassic World has churned out in the trailer - their bloody awful pterosaurs are from the 19th century - a total disgrace.

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...and-other.html

And I love this sentence -

"Some especially powerful pterosaurs, however, probably didn't need to worry about water hops. Giant azhdarchids, which experts predict were not only fuelled by muscle, but raw awesomeness sucked out of the universe itself, were probably powerful enough to water launch without hopping (Habib and Cunningham 2010). "

Mark Witton is ace.

I love this part of the article:


It really gets the thinking cap moving in different directions.

I'm a huge pterodactyl fan and this makes me even more excited about them.

Thanks for the story and link Keyser.

You are welcome, I have just edited my post a little as well.

i want to be powered by raw awesomeness!

As a Martian that is old news to me.

But do you have an 11-13 metre wingspan like some of the big buggers did?

4'10" bugger too bloody short

Never mind you can hitch a ride instead!

oooooo!!!! yes!!! i wonder how trainable they are?

Not from me. I hate people that pretend they come from another planet.

it's so pretentious isn't it?
good job i am another planetary system rather than a person....

I thought you were a dwarf planet - after all you are rather small (quickly runs away and hides in a blast-proof concrete bunker).

no i like it!!!

Are you a large Transneptunion?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Color.svg.png

That is so cool!

no need to post my picture all over the forum
i thought i could be anonymous here

Shut the hell up.

Any news of dinosaurs?

And there are no clothes on any of you - disgusting how you and your mates are all naked - and on that note I am off to kip!

A nice article on microfossils and the early carnivorous dinosaur Coelophysis.

http://naturalselectionsblog.blogspo....html?spref=tw

And as with so many palaeontological articles on Wiki - the entry on this genus is very informative indeed.

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

Some new giant prehistoric cephalopods and another very interesting article by the excellent Mark Witton.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....d-were-giants/

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...ssiveness.html

Nothing special - except the names of the dinosaurs really appeal to my sense of humour - as a primary school kid I would loved to have told the teachers the names of these three dinosaurs.

Fukuiraptor, Fukuisaurus and Fukuititan.

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2...western-japan/

A remarkable new insight into the anatomy and lifestyle of a vast plankton feeding Anomalocarid - and it was one of the largest arthropods ever to exist on this planet.

It's formidable ancestors were the world's first super-predators - so I find this discovery very interesting indeed.

http://www.livescience.com/50112-ano...ed-fossil.html

http://www.livescience.com/50111-pho...co-fossil.html

http://news.discovery.com/animals/7-...imp-150311.htm

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-franken...seas-480m.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KoqAA-RRnc

A few more links that may be of interest.

http://www.livescience.com/10416-sab...ly-humans.html

https://runflyjump.wordpress.com/201...e-stegosaurus/

A few nice size charts of the truly massive (fully grown not juvenile like most fossils of the animal - including the one in the upcoming Jurassic World) OMNH 1670 specimen of the good old Apatosaurus genus.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20...ut-d8fbr2j.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ale-ver001.png

More on the early tetrapod Acanthostega.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2015/m...ega-skull.html

http://www.natureworldnews.com/artic...er-to-land.htm

A nice illustration of some 2014's more interesting new discoveries.

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/20...ra-d8brdm7.jpg

More on one of the world's first great suspension feeders - Aegirocassis benmoulae.

Anomalocarids really were remarkable animals and I just love the reconstruction - the creature looks like a cruising alien spacecraft.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ient-survivor/