April 2011
1 post
March 2011
9 posts
Terra Nova delayed →
There was supposed to be a debut in May and a full season this fall, but now the debut has been pushed back to the fall. Apparently the FX team needs more time, which makes sense given the relatively dinosaur-free pictures and ads they’ve aired.
I’m losing my confidence this will be a good series. Or that it will ever air to begin with.
February 2011
20 posts
tl;dr →
Judging from the first paragraph, you get to play as Dennis Nedry’s Barbasol canister in the new Jurassic Park game. It will probably look nothing like this:
Finding Geminiraptor →
A story about the twin scientists who unearthed Geminiraptor, which was subsequently named after them.
1 tag
A to Z →
inlovewithgeosciences:
A complete, alphabetical list of every dinosaur that ever lived during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Even better than Wikipedia’s List of Dinosaurs, if only because this one tells you what it was.
January 2011
33 posts
“Heaman and his colleagues believe if their new uranium-lead dating technique...”
– Huh. You’d think they would’ve wanted to test more fossil samples before making the press release. I know revision happens a lot on paleontology, but it’ll be embarrassing to read an article in a few months that says “Whoops, sorry guys, our technique is totally shitty and...
DINOSAUR OFFICE
whatfreshheckisthis:
I’ve had the “Dinosaurs” drawer in my desk for nearly five years. I have never needed the space for paperwork or office accessories.
bycoincidence asked: this is the best blog i have ever found x
Three rex
A trio of links about the continuation of the old argument: was T. rex a scavenger king or a hunter?
Wired
The Guardian
The Telegraph
(image by Nobu Tamura, CC-by-SA)
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Dinosaur Wars
Tonight PBS is showing Dinosaur Wars, about the rivalry between Cope and Marsh and their rush to see whose penis was A) biggest and B) could discover and name the most dinosaurs. I was searching for more information about the series when I came across some unrelated but TOTALLY AWESOME books on Amazon:
Self-published with a vanity press? Check.
Cover art done by the author? Check.
SOLD...
Smithsonian: Top Dinos of 2010 →
I still haven’t found a comprehensive list of all the goodness in 2010, but this will suffice for now.
