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Dinosaurs Biting Other Dinosaurs In The Face
Posted by Greg Laden on April 13, 2015 
The number one rule of the Taphonomy Club is don’t talk about marks on bones … without placing them in context. Many marks on bones could have multiple causes, such as putative cut marks caused by stone tools on animal bones found on early hominid sites. In that case, hard sharp stony objects in the…
Bully for Brontosaurus
Posted by Greg Laden on April 8, 2015 
Much is being made of Brontosaurus. Brontosaurus is a genus name for a large dinosaur, known to watchers of “Land Before Time” as “Long-Necks.” That generic name dates to the 19th century, but in the early 20th century it was eliminated as a proper Linnaean term and replaced with Apatosaurus. This made us sad. Most…
Pterosaurs by Mark Witton
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2014 
Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy by Mark P. Witton is a coffee-table size book rich in detail and lavishly illustrated. Witton is a pterosaur expert at the School of Earh and Environmental Sciences at the University of Portsmouth. He is famous for his illustrations and his work in popular media such as the film “Walking…
Giant Semiaquatic Predatory Dinosaur
Posted by Greg Laden on September 11, 2014 
It is called Spinosaurus aegyptiacus but it sounds a bit more like Godzilla. Spinosaurus is a theropod dinosaur (that’s the groups birds evolved within) found in what is now NOrth Africa, between about 112 and 97 million years ago. It was first discovered about one century ago, though those bones were destroyed during WW II.…
Titanic Fearless Dinosaur Unearthed
Posted by Greg Laden on September 5, 2014 
I’m sure you’ve heard. The most complete skeleton of a titanosaur, a newly named species, Dreadnoughtus schrani, is being reported from Argentina. It is not a bird. I mention that because we’ve been talking about how birds are dinosaurs lately (see:”Honey, I shrunk the dinosaurs” and “Flying Dinosaurs: A new book on the dinosaur bird…
Flying Dinosaurs: A New Book on the Dinosaur Bird Link
Posted by Greg Laden on September 3, 2014 
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds by science writer John Pickrell is coming out in December. As you know I’ve written a lot about the bird-dinosaur thing (most recently, this: “Honey I Shrunk the Dinosaurs“) so of course this sounded very interesting to me. In a way, Pickrell’s book is a missing link, in…
Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
Posted by Greg Laden on November 28, 2012 
You all know Don Prothero. He is an active member of the Skeptics and Science Blogging community. He is the author of several books, one of which you are totally supposed to own and if you don’t it’s kinda lame: Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters. It occurred to me today that…
How to find dinosaurs!
Posted by Greg Laden on September 29, 2011 Study hard and get this guy’s job: I love that book, but when I was a kid they didn’t have dinosaurs yet.
Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z (a free excerpt)
Posted by Greg Laden on August 2, 2010 … from the National Center for Science Education. Click the picture to get the PDF of Darwin’s Universe: Evolution from A to Z .
Triassic Life on Land: I love this book
Posted by Greg Laden on July 28, 2010 The Triassic is old. This book is new. That is a hard to beat combination.