The Biggest Trilobite In The World

The Biggest Trilobite In The World

I'll share with you my most recent finds, which I found at Craigleith last weekend in a brief interlude from the fieldwork that I'm doing down the road from there: Pseudogygites latimarginensis. I…
Field Notes:Stalking the Wild Dinosaur Footprint

Field Notes:Stalking the Wild Dinosaur Footprint

Hello to the K. B. Polk 4th graders! I enjoyed your visit to Cedar Ridge Natural Preserve.  As I told some of you, I'm a scientist and I was going out to South Texas that weekend to find some…
Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Elasmosaurs loved their gastroliths – round, polished stomach stones – have been found amid their bones. These stones would have been swallowed to help grind down their catch and lower their natural…
Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Gastroliths & Elasmosaurs

Elasmosaurs loved their gastroliths – round, polished stomach stones – have been found amid their bones. These stones would have been swallowed to help grind down their catch and lower their natural…
Friday Fossil

Friday Fossil

What do you get if you mix a jellysifh (Peytoia), a sponge (Laggania), a crustacean tail, a crustacean abdomen (Tuzoia) and some Sidneyia tails? The answer is Anomalocaris, a very unusual fossil…
Awww... its an ickle baby Tyrannosaur!

Awww... its an ickle baby Tyrannosaur!

Cute!! Well, not really, but it's still just about big enough to play on the swings with you. Unlike his rather more terrifying parents, who might have rather impolitely eaten you for dinner, this…
Friday Fossil

Friday Fossil

This week's Friday Fossil is Helicoprion. What can I say. This is one weird bastard. And it used to look even weirder, The story is like this. At the turn of the last century, people started to…
Friday Fossil

Friday Fossil

This week's Friday Fossil is Helicoprion. What can I say. This is one weird bastard. And it used to look even weirder, The story is like this. At the turn of the last century, people started to…