Well I'm half chuffed with that . Could you make them a bit whiter and pretty though

They were pretty awesome beasts and there are tantalising ancient stories from Asia that suggest the animal may actually have survived into historic times - thus the unicorn myth was born.

More on a clash between Triassic super-predators (reported last year and on this this thread somewhere). Fossil evidence for such behavioural interactions is very rare.

http://www.pasttime.org/podcast/quic...iassic-titans/

Yet another Cambrian oddball.

http://www.livescience.com/50285-new...kootenayi.html

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....mbrian-weirdo/

Finally yet more fossil evidence of man's ancestors for the creationists to try and ignore.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...ology-science/

Some very interesting recent articles.

http://siberiantimes.com/science/cas...ecame-extinct/

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/1747.pdf

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-wld033115.php

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002051963

Some nice feathery rex's fighting over the carcass of a Thescelosaurus.

http://davidebonadonna.it/wp-content...celosaurus.jpg

A very interesting site I have found on the lost megafauna of the Pleistocene.

When reading through do bear in mind that we shared the world with many of these magnificent species - until they came into direct contact with Homo sapiens of course.

In fact some of them were still around in very recent historical times - and what a truly incredible sight these beasts must have been.

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com/

Talking of the megafauna here is a couple of recent articles on the late survival of the magnificent 'Irish Elk' Megaloceros giganteus.

Imagine two stags of such magnitude engaging in a fierce battle for mating rights in the rutting season - our Neolithic ancestors would have actually witnessed titanic struggles like that.

http://siberiantimes.com/science/cas...ously-thought/

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...st-giant-deer/

I looks like we are about to finally welcome back the mighty 'Thunder Lizard'.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...954892/?no-ist

http://www.livescience.com/50401-bro...-comeback.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s...-on-the-books/

http://www.nature.com/news/beloved-b...meback-1.17257

https://peerj.com/blog/post/111369042783/

Here is the paper.

https://peerj.com/articles/857/

Brontosaurus was in all the dinosaur books I read as a child in the 70s.

Best Easter resurrection ever.

Many recent dinosaur names are bloody awful and do little to describe the awesome size and power of the newly discovered beasts that they are referring to.

For example - Argentinosaurus - one of the biggest dinosaurs that ever lived and what does it's name mean?

'Argentine Lizard' - it could not be more bloody boring (a lot of shit dinosaur names are simply called after the place where they were found).

But Brontosaurus the 'Thunder Lizard' evokes the true majesty of a massive adult sauropod striding across the earth causing tremors wherever it's footsteps landed.

Some more links on the resurrection of Brontosaurus.

http://www.pasttime.org/podcast/news...aurus-revived/

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/scien...y-tree-n337316

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-.../#.VSRCmPnF_Tr

http://blogs.plos.org/paleo/

http://svpow.com/2015/04/07/welcome-...pp-et-al-2015/

Possibly the largest Megalodon tooth in the world - eat your heart out Jaws.

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/97...781686728n.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/15...960798396n.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/75...771685387n.jpg

More evidence for intraspecific combat and post-mortem cannibalism in Tyrannosaurs. Palaeopathology is a very interesting subject and these animals were tough - the kind of catastrophic injuries that they recovered from would probably kill a mammal within hours (if not instantly).

https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.c...-tyrannosaurs/

https://peerj.com/blog/post/11136904...tyrannosaurid/

The paper.

https://peerj.com/articles/885/

Some more stories on the discovery.

http://phys.org/news/2015-04-evidenc...annosaurs.html

http://www.theguardian.com/science/l...P=share_btn_fb

http://www.livescience.com/50437-tyr...-injuries.html

http://www.livescience.com/50433-tyr...-injuries.html

A beautiful new set of stamps showing Canadian dinosaurs (the lightly feathered Tyrannosaurus in particular is superb).

http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/1...n-canada-post/

LOL, That's funny! Seriously, I know what the scientific convention but I'd have been inclined to make an exception for Brontosaurus but no need now cos its back in its own right.

And in other news:

The five-year-old boy who discovered a dinosaur in Texas
A five-year-old boy has uncovered a 100 million-year-old dinosaur fossil while playing with his father. He discovered the fossil - thought to be that of a Nodosaur - behind a supermarket in Texas last September but it took months to get excavation permits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32229216

What is a Nodosaur, you ask - think punk dino armed with studs and spikes: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=no..._AUoAQ#imgrc=_

A few stories that may be of interest.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....-bizarre-jaws/

http://news.yale.edu/2015/04/10/new-...-yale-research

http://dinogoss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/...urus-club.html

Mark Witton is simply brilliant - just compare his wonderful and accurate feathery dinosaurs with the naked, scaly abominations of Jurassic World.

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...y-awesome.html

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...nts-money.html

His galley of prints to buy (all for a good cause).

http://www.markwitton.com/print-stor...ery/4588356870

Some more recent stories (and make sure you click on the dinosaur stamp images to enlarge them as I have said above the T. rex is very impressive).

http://virtualstampclub.com/lloydblog/?p=2224

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....g-apatosaurus/

http://www.eartharchives.org/article...s-of-the-north

https://www.dvidshub.net/news/159754...x#.VSsjb_nF_uL

The most complete skeleton of a 'Terror bird' (Phorusrhacid) has recently been discovered.

It was hardly a gigantic 3 metre tall monster like Brontornis or Kelenken - but the exceptional condition of the fossil remains of Llallawavis scagliai reveals some very interesting aspects of these apex predator's hearing and vocal range.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32218542

http://www.livescience.com/50443-ter...w-species.html

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....e-terror-bird/

The paper is here.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...12656#abstract

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

Frederick Douglass

http://johnconway.co/images/medium/t...aurus-rex.jpeg

http://johnconway.co/images/medium/t...-horridus.jpeg

A few very recent illustrations celebrating the return of Brontosaurus as a valid genus.

http://img14.deviantart.net/7e9e/i/2...ne-d8pk32p.jpg

http://img15.deviantart.net/126b/i/2...uy-d8pm67k.jpg

http://pre02.deviantart.net/d602/th/...na-d8ph3hz.jpg

A story on the upcoming renaming ceremony.

http://news.yale.edu/2015/04/13/retu...cques-gauthier

Acheroraptor temertyorum, a Hell Creek dromaeosaurid (closely related to the Asian Velociraptor) that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.

I love this illustration by the brilliant Julius Thomas Csotonyi and it is currently my laptop background.

http://cdn4.sci-news.com/images/2013...heroraptor.jpg

The Return of Thunder Lizard - Yay! Now, when are we going to get the movie? (or at least a documentary)

Now here's a strange (but serious) one and you literally could not make this one up:

Zombie worms ate plesiosaur bones
A type of deep-sea worm that eats whale bones has existed for 100 million years and may have chewed up chunks of the fossil record, a study suggests. Researchers found bore-holes indicative of Osedax worms in the fossilised flipper of a plesiosaur, and the rib and shell of an ancient sea turtle. This implies that these scavengers, also known as zombie worms, may have influenced which fossils remain today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32302164
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.o.../11/4/20150072

Zombie worms and plesiosaurs in the same story - outstanding!

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....e-wars-beasts/

The Last Dinosaur sounds like fantastically appalling bullshit as well - Maston Thrust with his big powerful gun.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...650662/?no-ist

A brief overview of the long reign of the Terror birds.

https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...ign-of-terror/

Not heard of them being called "Zombie worms" before - I suppose its all part of the Zombie chic we've had going on for the last few years.
I have heard of them referred to as "Snot flower worms". I suppose its logical they would eat whatever large bones came their way

Yes the bone-eating snot-flower worm - now that is one bloody cool name for an animal!

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/s...ax-mucofloris/

A rather nice image of the vast Terror bird Kelenken along with a time lapse video of how the artist created it.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...e8-d77erkb.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY_e...RY_uw&index=12

Thats one scarey birdie!
Think I might show that to my cat and tell her it'll get her if she keeps killing birds!