Sorry about the recent lack of updates. School has been keeping me busy. Anyway here is the newest feature that some of you may recognize. This is the Coelurosaurus, a creature from the late permian period and more recently from primeval. This unique lizard was smaller than is shown in the show(only 16 inches or so in length) and flies differently from any other extant animal today. Instead of getting wings from elongated ribs like the "flying" lizard of today, the bones in the wings are from dermal ossification. Dermal ossification is skin turning into bone like the plates on armored dinosaurs and scutes on alligators. These guys, by the way, didn't actually fly but glided like sugar gliders. Coelurosaurus probably was arboreal and ate insects for a living.