Extinct Animal of the Week

Illustration of type specimen The gracile hands of Chirostenotes are of importance to the genus not just because they are what the initi...

Today I can present to you, the audience, not the entire two papers of the most importance to Chirostenotes within the last fifty years, but...

First of all, I know that no films really use celluloid any more, especially those that are animated, as with Dinosaur Train, or those tha...

Few theropods are not featured somewhere in the children's literature , television, toy, or game markets. Theropods are just intriguing ...

An ice chilled day in Kansas folks. I cannot see any ice from my living room but it's clear there is frost on the grass and the temperat...

© Daniel Benson The Cretaceous of Alberta 75 million years ago had a number of smaller theropod dinosaurs running around. In 1924 (Gilmo...

Argentinosaurus does not, contrary to my title today, have belated popularity at all; in fact, it was popular almost immediately after being...

© Ezequiel Vera The middle Cretaceous, while we have mentioned in North America the downsizing of the sauropods, was a time of great exp...

Thankfully Argentinosaurus is an animal that we can, with total confidence, say the paper naming and describing it is available for us all t...

In part the fame of Argentinosaurus is owing to the size of the animal itself. In part it is famous because it was a part of a large group o...

KidsDinos has a fact page on Argentinosaurus for us today, that is always a fun time to introduce the kids to the dinosaur for this week. T...

Photograph taken by L. Quagliotto, from Mazzeta et al 2004 First of all, I'd like to point everyone in the direction of Nima Sassa...

© Nobu Tamura Amazingly, and I searched the history of all of the entries ever done for this blog, I have never covered, individually fo...

© Tuomas Koivurinne On this last day of Mapusaurus, the popular culture day, I usually would send us off with a picture of some random t...

Tyrannosaurus rex, long held to be and for a good long while the actual holder of the title "World's Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur,...

Dr Coria and Dr. Currie, borrowed from ROMblog Coria and Currie's paper announcing and describing Mapusaurus is online on a French w...

There are a number of videos which mention or show Mapusaurus, but only one actual documentary; though there are admittedly multiple copie...

Good news finally this week. First and foremost, no, we do not have our normal child related links to share with everyone. That is, as alway...

©Luis Rey The general feeling, though I have seen that Coria and Currie did not, by some sources, want the idea of pack hunting to be ex...

© Fabio Pastori Indigenous words are often fairly interesting; such is the case with the word Mapu , a word of the Mapuche people of A...