We all chew, but hardly ever think about it. Even a moment’s consideration, though, reveals how complex of a process it actually…

Salamanders are fairly adorable, but often forgotten, animals. Because their skeletons are pretty delicate, the fossil record for this group is spotty, with many…

The use of open access publishing in dinosaur paleontology has seen great growth over the past few years, particularly for newly named…

If you eat red meat, you’ve probably eaten a ruminant. This group of hoofed mammals includes our domesticated cattle and sheep, as…

Some fossils are just too cool. And slightly tragic. A 48 million year old fossil from the Messel beds of Germany fits this category…

Open science is about more than just tossing some publications and data notebooks into the digital ether. It’s all about communication–so, at…

Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in…

The fossil record is a window into the past, but much of that window is boarded over. This situation spurs paleontologists to look in new places…

Pretty much every person who ever read a dinosaur book or went to a natural history museum learned that Brontosaurus is just an…

What has 16 fingers and a digital skull? Acanthostega, that’s what! Acanthostega was one of the first limbed (rather than strictly “finned”) vertebrates, living around…

Although its name sounds rather dinosaurian, Basilosaurus was in fact one of the first extinct whales to make a splash in humanity’s perception…

In my previous post, I introduced Aquilops, a new little dinosaur from ancient Montana, and talked about some of the science behind establishing…