What if the Dinosaurs Hadn’t Gone Extinct? Why Our World Might Look Very Different
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Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs and changed the course of…
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs and changed the course of…
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth with the force of 10 billion atomic bombs and changed the course of…
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Male-male competition, and sometimes female preferences, have driven arms races for the flashiest horns, antlers, pincers…
Frontals of Dynamoterror dynastes in rostral view. From McDonald et al., 2018. (Scale bars = 5 cm) Tyrannosauroidea is a…
Featured Image: Utahceratops gettyi, a ceratopsian named in honor of Mike Getty, who passed away this week. From Sampson et al (2…
If you’re a dinosaur fan now, you’re spoiled. There’s no denying it. Just look at the horned dinosaurs. Back when I was a young…
Public lands (those areas owned by the government) are a tremendous asset to the United States, brimming with recreational…
A skeletal reconstruction of Agujaceratops, from Sampson et al., 2010. Out of the scores of non-avian dinosaurs discovered…
With the start of 2011, it’s time for our annual round-up of some PLoS ONE articles that made various lists of significant…
This year PLoS ONE had a lot of interesting research covered in the media. In fact, we had over 300 research articles receive…
When I was little (9 or 10 years old), my two favorite dinosaur books were Bob Bakker's The Dinosaur Heresies and Greg Paul's…
It has been pretty incredible to see the rise of PLoS ONE as a major outlet for articles on paleontology, and it has been…
Photo credits: Scott Sampson. "Skeletal elements recovered for Utahceratops gettyi n. gen et n. sp. and Kosmoceratops…
The Gothic Cathedral of the Triceratops family: Kosmoceratops. Creative Commons Sampson SD, Loewen MA, Farke AA, Roberts EM…
In this PLoS ONE media digest: two new horned dinosaurs, tracking the flu using social networks and more… Scott Sampson and…
This week, we are featuring images from a recently published paper entitled, New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence…
New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism. 2010. S. Sampson, et al. PLoS One 5(9)…
Utahceratops (above) and Kosmoceratops (below).© Lukas PanzarinI am super excited to help spread the word on two newly named…
Since I’m not Darren Naish, I have trouble keeping up with every damned tetrapod on Earth. Compared to many of my colleagues…
C'è un po' di Italia in questa nuova pubblicazione, grazie ad un grandissimo paleoartista amico di questo blog... Mi riferisco…
2010 will surely go down as the…