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Why did Sauropods grow so big?
Published on March 4th, 2024 | by Guest Blogger
Harrie explores some of the factors enabling sauropod gigantism... Read More →
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Modern Vs Archaic Mammals, a match-up decided by brains
Published on December 15th, 2023 | by Guest Blogger
How do the brain sizes of modern and ancient mammals measure up... Read More →
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In The Field – Polish-Mongolian Expeditions 1963 – 1971 (Part 2)
Published on February 7th, 2020 | by Guest Blogger
Mongolia’s ancient underbelly had proved so productive that after suspending fieldwork for one year, the Polish returned in 1967 for another three year stint. This was a smaller scale operation, like in 1963, aimed not at [&hellip... Read More →
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Why You Should Embrace Your Child’s Fascination With Dinosaurs
Published on January 24th, 2020 | by Guest Blogger
A few weeks ago I decided to show my 8-year-old daughter one of my favourite movies as a child – the 1988 animated film The Land Before Time. We had a wonderful time meeting Littlefoot (an [&hellip... Read More →
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In The Field – Polish-Mongolian Expeditions 1963 – 1971 (Part 1)
Published on December 28th, 2019 | by Guest Blogger
Of the many countries around the world that have seen palaeontologists scouring their strata for fossils, Mongolia is one of the most intriguing and inspiring. Landlocked and sandwiched between its neighbouring geographical behemoths, Russia and China, [&hellip... Read More →
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Tyrannosaurus rex and the dinosaur teeth of Skye: Windows into the lives of dead dinos
Published on October 21st, 2019 | by Guest Blogger
We don’t need a whole lot of fossil material to start to understand the ecosystems of the past. A few teeth can tell us what types of dinosaur roamed the land hundreds of millions of years [&hellip... Read More →
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Walking in the Footsteps of Dinosaurs
Published on September 22nd, 2019 | by Guest Blogger
The recent discovery of a dinosaur trackway site on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, provides insight into “a day in the life of a bunch of dinosaurs just loitering about, 170 million years ago” according to [&hellip... Read More →
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A Look at Prosauropods: The Forgotten Dinosaurs
Published on May 28th, 2019 | by Guest Blogger
As with most children who are fascinated by dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus were amongst the first dinosaurs I learnt of. But as I grew older, another group of dinosaurs began to pique my interest, a [&hellip... Read More →
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No, Brian Ford, Cranial Neurovasculature does not mean All Dinosaurs were Aquatic
Published on June 23rd, 2018 | by Chris Barker
If you’ve been on twitter these last few months, or follow palaeozoologist Darren Naish on social media, you’ll have surely heard about the new book written by Brian Ford, “Too Big to Walk: The New Science [&hellip... Read More →
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Speculation and conjecture obscures the true pterosaur menu
Published on June 7th, 2018 | by Guest Blogger
Whenever we think about extinct animals we often imagine them tucking into their favourite meals, whether it be a Tyrannosaurus rex munching on a Triceratops steak, or a woolly mammoth enjoying an Ice Age salad. But [&hellip... Read More →
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