Guest Factoid: Prosaurolophus
Image Credit: McGarrity, C. T., Campione N. E. , and Evans D. C. (2013) “Cranial anatomy and variation in Prosaurolophus maximus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae)”. John Michalski is a senior geology major […]
Paleontology Newsflash: Spectrovenator ragei
TAPS. We’re here to help. With four new dinosaur species announced from South America this October, this might be the happiest Halloween for fossil aficionados since 2015, when the giant […]
Paleontology Newsflash: Paraxenisaurus normalensis and Stellasaurus ancellae
There’s a starsaur waiting in the ground/ He’d like to come and meet us/ But he thinks he’d blow our minds. The great 2020 saurischian streak has broken! Finally we […]
Chronoscope: What Is Paleoart?
It’s a skeleton, yes, but is it art? Image by J. Cotton. Google a dinosaur, any dinosaur, and look through the pictures the search engine scrolls up. If you were […]
Paleontology Newsflash: Analong chuanjieensis and Kholumolumo ellenbergerorum
Do you prefer the clarity of Chuanjiesaurus, or the warmer sound of Analong? Analong is the skeleton on the right, in blue. 2020 has started off as the year of […]
Paleontology 101: How to Recognize a Fossil
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just isn’t the same . . . . One of the more frequently asked questions at any […]
Exhibit Spotlight: Albertosaurus sarcophagus
You should see one of these guys perform a Tombstone Pildriver with those tiny arms. Quite the spectacle! Albertosaurus: a name so dignified and proper it almost sounds silly. Then […]
Exhibit Spotlight: Pteranodon longiceps
Look Ma! NO TEETH! A staple of the Mesozoic in the popular imagination, no picture-book illustration succeeds without at least one of these animals (or a recognizable facsimile) occupying the […]
Exhibit Spotlight: Hesperornis regalis
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many restaurants to temporarily shut down, Hesperornis has resorted to getting a sashimi fix the old-fashioned way. What has teeth and couldn’t fly? Probably […]
Exhibit Spotlight: Amargasaurus cazaui
Why do theropods get all the attention? I’m not just some vanilla sauropod! Sheesh, I grow these neck spines and no one pays me any attention, same as ever. What’s […]