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Fossil Crates 2024 Paleoartist Awards

Fossil Crates 2024 Paleoartist Awards

Congratulations to our 2024 Fossil Crates Paleoartist award winners! Each year Fossil Crates selects from among its many commissioned pieces those that we enjoyed the most in the year. These...

Fossil Crates 2024 Paleoartist Awards

Congratulations to our 2024 Fossil Crates Paleoartist award winners! Each year Fossil Crates selects from among its many commissioned pieces those that we enjoyed the most in the year. These...

Appalachiosaurus, Arm Length, and Matrices

The Arms of Appalachiosaurus, or how I was again reminded to never trust a cladistic matrix without inspecting every cell...   This post wasn't meant to grow so large, or...

Appalachiosaurus, Arm Length, and Matrices

The Arms of Appalachiosaurus, or how I was again reminded to never trust a cladistic matrix without inspecting every cell...   This post wasn't meant to grow so large, or...

Ark Survival Ascended Madagascar Mods Benefit Ankizy Fund

Ark Survival Ascended Madagascar Mods Benefit A...

Video games and dinosaurs go together like, well pick your favorite combo!  Peanut butter and chocolate, peanut butter and jelly, iced tea and lemonade, the list is nigh endless!   Skymap...

Ark Survival Ascended Madagascar Mods Benefit A...

Video games and dinosaurs go together like, well pick your favorite combo!  Peanut butter and chocolate, peanut butter and jelly, iced tea and lemonade, the list is nigh endless!   Skymap...

Seis-ing up the Super-Morrison Formation sauropods

Seis-ing up the Super-Morrison Formation sauropods

Seis-ing up the Super-Morrison Formation sauropods Drs. Cary Woodruff, Brian Curtice, John Foster The Morrison Formation has long been a treasure trove of colossal Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs. Among the giants, Diplodocus (=Seismosaurus) hallorum and Supersaurus vivianae stand...

Seis-ing up the Super-Morrison Formation sauropods

Seis-ing up the Super-Morrison Formation sauropods Drs. Cary Woodruff, Brian Curtice, John Foster The Morrison Formation has long been a treasure trove of colossal Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs. Among the giants, Diplodocus (=Seismosaurus) hallorum and Supersaurus vivianae stand...

Beelzebufo

Beelzebufo

World’s Deadliest Frog… Ever! Beezelbufo hunting a juvenile Masiakasaurus - artwork by Gustavo Monroy for Fossil Crates   Photo of Beelzebufo skeleton from Triebold Paleontology Inc., used with permission As...

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Beelzebufo

World’s Deadliest Frog… Ever! Beezelbufo hunting a juvenile Masiakasaurus - artwork by Gustavo Monroy for Fossil Crates   Photo of Beelzebufo skeleton from Triebold Paleontology Inc., used with permission As...

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In Memory of mi amigo Dr. Jorge Calvo

In Memory of mi amigo Dr. Jorge Calvo

In Memoriam Dr. Jorge Calvo (April 27, 1961 - January 10, 2023) (Image from Proyecto Dino FB page) I met Jorge in the mid-90s at an SVP meeting where we had...

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In Memory of mi amigo Dr. Jorge Calvo

In Memoriam Dr. Jorge Calvo (April 27, 1961 - January 10, 2023) (Image from Proyecto Dino FB page) I met Jorge in the mid-90s at an SVP meeting where we had...

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  • Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis - Fossil Crates

    Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Majungasaurus   Majungasaurus, "Mahajunga lizard," lived in Madagascar at the end of the dinosaurs' reign, from ~70 mya right up to the very end 66 mya.   Like most early-named dinosaurs,...

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    Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Majungasaurus   Majungasaurus, "Mahajunga lizard," lived in Madagascar at the end of the dinosaurs' reign, from ~70 mya right up to the very end 66 mya.   Like most early-named dinosaurs,...

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  • Anz-who?  Anzu, that's who! - Fossil Crates

    Anz-who? Anzu, that's who!

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Anzu wyliei is the largest and most complete North American oviraptorosaur thus far discovered, measuring 11’ long and around 600 lbs.  Its massive size dwarfs its 6’ long North American relatives, Chirostenotes and...

    Anz-who? Anzu, that's who!

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Anzu wyliei is the largest and most complete North American oviraptorosaur thus far discovered, measuring 11’ long and around 600 lbs.  Its massive size dwarfs its 6’ long North American relatives, Chirostenotes and...

  • Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": Were the ribbons real? - Fossil Crates

    Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": W...

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Ubirajara jubatus, the "Maned Lord of the Spear," is a beautifully preserved 3' long, ~112 million-year-old meat-eating Brazilian dinosaur.  The specimen is preserved with a proto-feathery mane down its spine...

    Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": W...

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Ubirajara jubatus, the "Maned Lord of the Spear," is a beautifully preserved 3' long, ~112 million-year-old meat-eating Brazilian dinosaur.  The specimen is preserved with a proto-feathery mane down its spine...

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