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If you are interested I created a thread called 'real life sea monsters' on here and there are several posts on the mighty Mola.
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PMore on the remarkable Pareiasaur Bunostegos akokanensis.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....-upright-legs/ |
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![]() A shitload of links today. But still my favourite story is more on the new evidence for battling Apatosaurs - just think of those multi-ton necks smashing into each other in a fight for dominance between the behemoths! It must have been a truly awe-inspiring sight. http://svpow.com/2015/09/20/fighting...an-engh-again/ https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/20...hroughweb1.jpg Other links that some may find interesting (including the fact that the giant ripper lizard Megalania was still around when the aboriginal Australians arrived). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34340918 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...borigines.html http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/...ned-dinosaurs/ http://phys.org/news/2015-09-digital...urs-youve.html http://pseudoplocephalus.blogspot.co...-hot-dogs.html http://wanderingalbatross.deviantart...8363/Paleo-art |
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The brilliant Mark Witton's latest blogpost.
http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...evolution.html His updated gallery. http://www.markwitton.com/print-stor...ery/4588356870 An excellent article on Homo naledi. https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...of-star-stuff/ |
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Yet more of the fighting Apatosaurs.
http://svpow.com/2015/09/25/fighting...-bob-nicholls/ https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/20...cholls2015.jpg |
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This National Geographic documentary on Friday - 'World's Biggest Beasts' on Channel 5 was pretty good.
There was one error though Spinosaurus was certainly longer than rex but not as massive. The 22 ton estimate seems to be from from an older paper - a more recent figure of 7 tons seems to be far more realistic (compared to 8.4 to 10 tons for rex). Just look at the size comparison of the skeletons. http://i.imgur.com/je6dzGe.jpg *Edit. I found that the old study that gives the 22 ton estimate has been widely discredited - 7 tons it is. Apart from that it was entertaining with a lot of very recent research - the quad launch of giant Pterosaurs for example. http://www.channel5.com/shows/worlds...biggest-beasts There are also two documentaries on tonight which will no doubt delight Creationists. Channel 4 on Homo naledi - 'First Humans: The Cave Discovery' at 8.00PM and 'The Two Million Year Old Boy' on More 4 at 9.00.
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Yet more on fighting Apatosaurs.
http://svpow.com/2015/09/27/fighting...wesomedinoart/ The intriguing possibility of detecting the true colours of a wide range of fossilised animals. http://phys.org/news/2015-09-pigment...t-animals.html http://news.discovery.com/animals/fo...ors-150929.htm http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2015/s...l-colours.html |
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Why are we the only species of living human?
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150...es-still-alive Plesiosaur robot mimic investigates hydrodynamic swimming efficiency. https://www.newscientist.com/article...g-robot-mimic/ The dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch. http://www.amnh.org/shelf-life/episo...of-ghost-ranch |
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New research on the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.
http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/01/...for-dinosaurs/ http://phys.org/news/2015-10-asteroi...dinosaurs.html https://www.newscientist.com/article...off-dinosaurs/ http://www.sfgate.com/science/articl...at-6541725.php http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...ruptions-study http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...001-story.html The most iconic battle of them all - Tyrannosaurus v Triceratops at the Smithsonian. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...919_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphi...ing-of-a-trex/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/...205_video.html http://www.npr.org/2015/10/01/444276...n-upright-pose http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...ops-180956793/ |
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Another load of links - it's been a busy few days for palaeontology.
![]() http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazi...astes-in-limbo http://siberiantimes.com/science/oth...ously-thought/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...ors-180956791/ http://pseudoplocephalus.blogspot.co...essential.html http://www.montana.edu/news/15769/la...lived-and-died http://www.rapidreadytech.com/2015/0...-and-scanning/ http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/L...d-footprints/1 http://phys.org/news/2015-10-explore...ponse-big.html Finally - what a pile of shit. http://www.poozeum.com/ |
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A couple of very interesting articles on Allosaur (and other theropod) feeding techniques and Phorusrhacid feeding dynamics and ecology - which if correct makes these massive birds even more formidable than before.
http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...an-falcon.html http://antediluviansalad.blogspot.co...ew-theory.html How the Sauropods evolved into the largest terrestrial animals ever to walk the earth. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...so-big/6816224 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...o-live/6806006 |
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Just the latest on the Tyrannosaurus rex design in the Saurian computer game.
http://saurian.maxmediacorp.com/?p=553 |
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An interesting take on the famous saga of Piltdown Man.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...st-contention/ |
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An interesting take on the famous saga of Piltdown Man.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...st-contention/ And now for some real hominin discoveries: First Humans: The Cave Discovery New species of human ancestor revealed in Channel 4 documentary http://www.channel4.com/programmes/f...cave-discovery Going back even further: Ancient beaver-like mammal thrived after dinosaur extinction This is a reconstruction of Kimbetopsalis simmonsae, a metre-long, plant-eating, rodent-like mammal boasting buck-toothed incisors like a beaver that lived just a few hundred thousand years after the dinosaurs went extinct. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ki...mmal-1.3256783 |
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An interesting take on the famous saga of Piltdown Man.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...st-contention/ |
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Alas poor Eoanthropus, consigned to a small cardboard box in the vaults of the Natural History Museum.
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Alas poor Eoanthropus, consigned to a small cardboard box in the vaults of the Natural History Museum.
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Unfortunately he is often brought up by mouth-breathing Creationists as proof that all fossils are fakes.
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Yet another dig at Christians by this poster. He just can't help himself!
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Yet another dig at Christians by this poster. He just can't help himself!
Anyway a new species has been discovered of that oddball marine mammal group the Desmostylians. http://www.livescience.com/52393-odd...nds-video.html A couple of the best Mosasaur reconstructions I have seen to date. Both of the massive Tylosaurus pembinensis. http://orig14.deviantart.net/dcc8/f/...cd-d9blb6u.jpg http://img05.deviantart.net/05d2/i/2...52-d98n8kz.jpg |
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Yet another dig at Christians by this poster. He just can't help himself!
Anyway for those of us actually interested in scientific facts a few more links. ![]() http://extinctmonsters.net/2015/10/0...-rex-revealed/ https://dinosours.files.wordpress.co...x_workshop.jpg http://www.eartharchives.org/article...he-gobi-desert https://twilightbeasts.wordpress.com...f-the-steppes/ http://www.livescience.com/52398-anc...e-mammals.html Finally a very nice reconstruction of one of the biggest Mosasaurs of them all -Mosasaurus maximus. http://img03.deviantart.net/020c/i/2...da-d9b8odi.jpg |
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Another article from Mark Witton this time featuring his excellent illustrations - this time of sauropods.
http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk...chiosaurs.html Talking of sauropods a very rare Titanosaur braincase has been examined - of all the dinosaurs these behemoths were not exactly overburdened with grey matter. http://phys.org/news/2015-10-rare-br...aur-brain.html Finally how Giraffes got their long necks. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic....ers-by-a-neck/ |
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Well preserved mammoth skin found:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/cas...e-for-cloning/ Surely someone's going to clone a live one soon. |
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