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Meet Maleriraptor kuttyi, a new herrerasaurian dinosaur from India
Published: May 15, 2025 14:38
The Triassic beds of Argentina and Brazil play a key role in understanding of the origin and early diversification of Dinosauria. The first recorded dinosaurs include some predatory forms, such as the herrerasaurids from the lower Ischigualasto Formation…
Introducing Duonychus tsogtbaatari
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/introducing-duonychus-tsogtbaatari/
Published: March 31, 2025 23:03
Therizinosauria is a group of unusual theropod dinosaurs known from Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America. The clade exhibits unique features, including lanceolate teeth, a rostral rhamphotheca, and a broad, opisthopubic pelvis. Some of those…
The evolution of avian cranial kinesis
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/the-evolution-of-avian-cranial-kinesis/
Published: March 25, 2025 22:34
The evolution of the avian skull is marked by radical transformations of the braincase, palate, and snout. Brain size correlated with major evolutionary innovations like cognition, flight, environmental adaptability, and enhanced sensory capabilities. Due…
Mary Ann Woodhouse and the discovery of Iguanodon
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/mary-ann-woodhouse-and-the-discovery-of-iguanodon/
Published: February 10, 2025 16:48
On 10 February 1825, Gideon Algernon Mantell’s paper “Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered fossil reptile from the sandstone of Tilgate Forest” was read by Davies Gilbert MP at a meeting of the Royal Society of London. In the paper, Mantell gives a…
200 years of Dinosaurs and Avian History.
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/200-years-of-dinosaurs-and-avian-history/
Published: February 4, 2025 22:27
In April 1842, Owen created the group “Dinosauria” using three taxa: Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and Hylaeosaurus, based on three main characters: large size and terrestrial habits, upright posture, and sacrum with five vertebrae (because the specimens were…
Top fossil discoveries of 2024
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/top-fossil-discoveries-of-2024/
Published: December 31, 2024 18:36
It was the worst of times. It was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of incredulity. 2024 was marked by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the return of the totalitarisms, and extreme weather events. It was the season of darkness. It has been one year…
Food webs and the rise of dinosaurs
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/food-webs-and-the-rise-of-dinosaurs/
Published: November 29, 2024 04:40
Dinosaurs likely originated in the Middle Triassic and the first unequivocal dinosaur fossils are known from the late Carnian. The main environmental changes that occurred at the very end of the Triassic period paved the way for the early radiation and…
Navaornis and the evolution of the avian brain
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/navaornis-and-the-clues-of-bird-brain-evolution/
Published: November 15, 2024 21:36
Birds arose from a theropod lineage more than 150 million years ago. By the Early Cretaceous, they diversified and evolved into a number of groups with different anatomy and ecology. Enantiornithes were the most diverse group of Mesozoic birds. It has been…
Halloween special XII: Aldrovandi’s Book of Monsters
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/halloween-special-xii-aldrovandis-book-of-monsters/
Published: October 31, 2024 21:26
Medieval bestiaries were manuscripts books written in Latin with descriptions and illustrations about real and imaginary beasts focusing in their characteristics and their spiritual significance. The influence of bestiaries resonates in modern literature.…
A Song of Ice and Fire: 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature
Published: September 27, 2024 19:27
In the last 540 million years, five mass extinction events shaped the history of the Earth. Those events were related to extreme climate change. On a global scale the main forces behind this phenomenon are: solar forcing, atmospheric CO2 concentration, and…