Gigantaraptor is My Homeboy

Becky, 15, anything and everything to do with paleontology.

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“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”

Yeah, no.

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hot n cold by katy perry was such a 6th grade anthem like remember when people wore converse sneakers and would straighten only their bangs and had an ipod touch with the background that said muffins are just ugly cupcakes

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Early Birds Lacked in Diversity, New Study Finds http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-early-birds-diversity-01959.html

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In this video, meet the paleontologists who are finding pterosaur bones all around the globe. Hear what they love about their jobs, and which pterosaur species are their favorites!

Learn all about these amazing flying reptiles in the new exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. 

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Dimetrodon resting by unlobogris

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Fossil Friday, Tylosaurus skull.

© The Field Museum, GEO79878.

Tylosaurus skull. Late or Upper Cretaceous, Niobrara Chalk of Kansas. Order: Squamata. Family: Mosasauridae Geology specimen P 15144.

8x10 negative

6/10/1940 

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Austroraptor cabazai by dustdevil

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Olorotitan Bust by mmfrankford

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Jurassic ammonites of Sicily

Una serie di ricostruzioni di ammoniti Giurassiche della Sicilia provenienti dalle Rocche Rosse (Galati Mamertino, Messina, Sicilia, Italia)

A serie of reconstruction in life of Jurassic ammonites of Sicily from Rocche Rosse (Galati Mamertino, Messina, Sicily, Italy)

1. Amphiceras harpoceroides

2. Belemnites sp.

3. Miltoceras sellae

4. Nautilus brancoi

5. Rhacophyllites libertus

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Velociraptor and protoceratops by Olorotitan

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Yangchuanosaurus by cheungchungtat

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Seen in Paul Mayer’s office, collections manager of invertebrate paleontology. (at The Field Museum)

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Earliest Bird Pollinator Found in Germany

Fossilized 47 million years ago, it was the size of a hummingbird—but unlike any living species.

Today’s hummingbirds ferry pollen from blossom to blossom, helping flowering plants reproduce. Their occupational ancestors, however, were birds of a different feather. According to a paper published in this week’s Biology Letters, a fossilized bird from millions of years ago offers the earliest, most direct evidence to date of bird pollination.

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Megaloceros by Tiffany Turrill Everyone’s favorite giant deer of the Pleistocene!

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Pachycephalosaurus, Ely Kish

The rain pours on Pachycephalosaurus, sloshes in the mud at her feet, seeps into the earth, sinks past where roots perform osmosis, glides into the groundwater, is ushered into a river, evaporates before meeting the sea, dances thousands of feet above the ground on the atmosphere’s breath, whirls into swollen clouds pregnant with new rain, and falls again and again and again for millions of years, sometimes meeting the sea, sometimes discharged by a spring, sometimes drunk, sometimes urinated, sometimes frozen, sometimes vaporized, until it pours at last from your faucet into your kettle—a 65 million-year journey to be tea.

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Fun story: the reason why the picture is designed this way is due to the nature of the fossil find of Pachycephalosaurus at the time.  IE: They only had a head.  Rather than speculate, Ely Kish only drew what they had.

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I don’t normally like to repost from my paleoprose blog, but majingojira tacked a nice tidbit of info to go with the picture and I wanted to share.

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Amazingly Vivid Dino Illustrations Reveal a Brutal Prehistoric World

Over its lifetime, Earth has hosted countless species. But some of those species, like the dinosaurs, have managed to claw their way into a special place in our imaginations. Now, a new book illustrates the dinosaurs — and many of the beasts of millennia ago — in beautiful, spectacular and vicious style.

In one illustration, tiny Utahraptors tear at the flesh of a much larger creature. Another shows a rather unlikely but fanciful encounter between giant megalodon and funny-looking platybelodon. A more serene image depicts a well-camouflaged little dinosaur sleeping beneath a tree in a lush, green forest.

The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi, available on May 20, is a collection of artwork by Julius Csotonyi, an award-winning illustrator whose work lives in museums and in science papers. Csotonyi, who holds a PhD in microbiology, works frequently with paleontologists who need help bringing their fossil finds to life. Sometimes, though, he draws whatever comes to mind. According to Csotonyi’s parents, his first illustration, at age 3, was of a dinosaur. “It appears to have been intended to be a rooster,” Csotonyi says in the book.

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Really beautiful palaeoart here! I’ll be taking a class later this year in palaeoart. I’ve been an artist all my life, and drawing dinosaurs since I was a kid, but a serious course will be very, very fun.