Extinct Animal of the Week

Hello all! You're stuck at home. You're loved ones are stuck at home. I'm stuck at home. I'll be working on lectures and...

Good morning! What a wonderful morning it is! Punxsutawney Phil came out and told us all that spring is right around the corner, which is a ...

Holotype as depicted in von Baczko and Desojo, 2016 The holotype skull of Riojasuchus is very non-crocodilian to the casual observer. H...

More paleontological discoveries were made in 1969 than just Deinonychus , though that is certainly one of the most famous of dinosaurs. A s...

Since the description of Deinonychus by John Ostrom in 1969 the "dinosaur renaissance" that was kicked off by this paper and the ...

There are a number of events turning 50 this year. Paleontology is not left out of 50 year old events. One of the most important, in my opin...

When Keichousaurus came across my screen the first time I thought it was an impressive appearing nothosaur but that it had a funny little h...

I am back to having the time to write a little bit here and there every day. There are many good animals to start with as we restart these ...

The "Mexican Walking Fish" ( Ambystoma mexicanum ) is probably one of the first non-mammalian animals that I ever interacted with ...

In 2014 a fossil skull from Madagascar introduced us to a "groundhog-like" mammal of the Late Cretaceous. The animal was named Vin...

This week I decided that we really ought to get a little bit of knowledge into an odd group of animals that we have never looked at before. ...

When one searches fossil parrot two things appear. One is a report of a partial tarsometatarsus (a bone in the foot) from Siberia that was d...

Today, enjoy some imagery of Temnodontosaurus . Also, enjoy some toy reviews. The second video is a model from CollectA and is particularly ...

I always find it to be a little odd when there are few places to find facts on what should otherwise be a fairly well-known animal. Consider...

©Dmitry Bogdanov The holotype of Temnodontosaurus platyodon (originally Ichthyosaurus platyodon ) is approximately 6.1 m (20 ft) long a...

Invest a little time in learning a little bit about Sauroposeidon today with WizScience and Dinosaurs Unearthed:

Sauropods were enormous animals, for the most part. They certainly have a wide range of sizes, but the absolute largest sauropod ever known ...

It was mentioned earlier this week that Protarchaeopteryx , as a name, translates literally to "Before Archaeopteryx ". This poses...

Any time that one searches for anything discussing birds, dinosaurs, and/or evolution, one must be aware of the confusing and argumentative ...

We always love a fossil that we haven't talked about or a fossil that has had a lengthy absence and we are talking about it for the fir...