Rebellatrix: Ancient Canadian Killer Coelacanth

Rebellatrix: Ancient Canadian Killer Coelacanth

The iconic Coelacanth are fish well-known as ‘living fossils’. Coelacanths were thought to have died out with the dinosaurs and then a living one was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938,…
Yutyrannus Huali: Tyrannosaurus Had A Softer Side

Yutyrannus Huali: Tyrannosaurus Had A Softer Side

A previously unknown species of giant, feathered tyrannosaur has been discovered in China, making it the largest-known feathered animal, living or extinct. Tyrannosaurus rex and its cousins lived…
Friday Fossil

Friday Fossil

I couldn't possibly call myself a paleontology blogger and not post the fossil below as an article. Happily, I notice that it is friday today and so this can come under the banner of my oft forgotten…
Some recent cool papers

Some recent cool papers

It's always the way. Within the last week, there's been so many fantastic papers out that I literally have no idea where to start. People always seem to publish these things when I am most busy. It…
Friday Fossil

Friday Fossil

This week's Friday fossil is Samotherium. Samotherium is an ancient Giraffe. It's skull is two feet long, with two horns, and it's thigh bones are twice as big as a human's. These are its milk teeth…
Earliest Animal Fossils? Uhhh, No

Earliest Animal Fossils? Uhhh, No

Every 6 months or so these days it feels like we find the earliest animal life. More often than not, said life is something ugly that turns up in a bucket after dissolving rocks in acid. Well, it's…