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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... Â 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... Â This post wasn't meant to grow so large, or...
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 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
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...
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...
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...
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
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  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!
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!
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...
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Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": W...
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...
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...