Did Dinosaurs have Feathers?

9 April 2014, 1:31 am

Feathers or Scales?

Filed under Birds, Dinosaurs | Tagged Archeopteryx, Compsognathus, Feathers, Scales | Comment

Bird Egg Shaped Dinosaurs Eggs Link Birds and Non-Avian Dinosaurs

2 April 2014, 12:18 am

The new egg is a link between dinosaurs and birds, and so evidence for the hypothesis that non avian theropods, the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period, and birds had a common ancestor.

Filed under Birds, Dinosaurs, Evolution, Stratigraphy | Tagged Cretaceous, Eggs, Ovoid, Sociality | 1 Comment

Patagonian Abelisaurus Already Had Minuscule Forelimbs in the Jurassic

25 March 2014, 11:24 pm

When Tyrannosaurus and its relatives dominated predation in North America and Asia, the abelisaurids occupied a similar niche in Patagonia and other areas of Gondwanaland, being the dominant predators in the Southern hemisphere.

Filed under Dinosaurs, Environment, Evolution | Tagged Abelisaurus, Bipedal, Birds, Forelimbs, Gondwanaland, Patagonia, Tyrannosaurus rex | Comment

Human Lead Pollution

18 March 2014, 11:17 pm

Tests in the ice cores from Greenland show up ancient metal production

Filed under Environment, Hominids, Homo | Tagged Heavy Metals, Lead, Pollution | 1 Comment

Live Birth among Dinosaurs?

11 March 2014, 11:12 pm

The idea of some dinosaurs giving birth to live young is risible. Is it?

Filed under Anthroposaurus sapiens, Dinosaurs | Tagged Eggs, Ichthyosaurus, Intelligent Dinosaur, Live Young | 2 Comments

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Know Your Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs dominated the earth for more than 150 million years, twice as long as mammals have done so, so they were hugely successful. Animals like humans, hominids, have lived for only 7 million years, and Homo sapiens only for the last 200,000 years. Dinosaurs out competed the other animals of their era, including the mammals. We should respect that immense success, not deride it.

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