As if you need any further reasons to attend TetZooCon, here's one more. A couple of years ago I ran into a fellow in the post-TZC-pub w...

Oscar, Darwin, and Wallace Several readers may recall Marc's having covered Blackgang Chine's The Triassic Club before. Aft...

Welcome back, everybody! Where last we left off, I'd done a brief, illustrated survey of some notable Alabama Cretaceous marine fauna ....

Recently, I finally read a paper by Heinrich Mallison entitled ' The digital Plateosauru s II: an assessment of the range of motion of t...

Balaur bondoc , by Mick Ellison. From the PNAS paper. I love the smell of lifted embargos in the morning. Yesterday, the web exploded to lif...

I love the outdoors. I love rocks, big and small. I like feeling them, and I like clambering over them. But to see someone scaling a sheer w...

As I noted in an introductory post when I started this blog, I'm not an "armchair paleontologist," or even a "footstool p...

A few years ago , Phil Manning at the University of Manchester used a robotic simulation of the dromaeosaur sickle claw to determine how it ...