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Darren Naish (of Tetrapod Zoology), and Mark Witton recently published a paper on Azhdarchid Pterosaurs in PLoS ONE, entitled A Reappraisal of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Functional Morphology and Paleoecology. The paper looks at available evidence, and concludes that Azhdarchids were not skim-feeders, flying low above the water and scooping up fish. Rather, it seems they were [...]

3. Dig Into the Past: Polo! Dig Into the Past is a blog of the Houston museum of Natural History. In this post, Steven recounts the first day of a dig with the HMNH paleontology bigwigs, including Robert Bakker! I know I’m jealous. 2. The Speculative Dinosaur Project We all know that a meteorite finished [...]

Considering the war of attrition over the Theory of Evolution that persists even today, it is hard not to imagine Charles Darwin as a radical, a brilliant scientist, bent on shattering the theistic view of life. Certainly, anti-evolutionists would love us to believe that Darwin was radical, was a fascist, also a communist, and the [...]

The story of the Piltdown Man begins in a gravel pit near the village of Piltdown, in East Sussex. Workers at the gravel pit uncovered a skull, and one of them gave a fragment to a local archaeologist, Charles Dawson. Or so the story goes. Charles Dawson was an amateur archaeologist who had become famous [...]

Looking at the example of Sir Fred Hoyle, it appears that astrophysicists should stick to astrophysics, and leave the paleontology to the paleontologists. I refer to Hoyle’s infamous claims in 1985 about archaeopteryx. Over the course of the year, Hoyle and a group of associates made the rather extraordinary claim that Archaeopteryx was a fake, [...]

This weeks top three are dominated by entries into Laelaps’ Boneyard #20 contest, which provides the third and first place finishers. For those of you who, the contest challenged paleobloggers to write stories, fiction or nonfiction, about encounters with extinct creatures. 3. The Disillusioned Taxonomist: Meeting with a Spinosaurus In this fictional entry to the [...]

If you’re a fan of the famous “Dead Parrot” sketch by Monty Python, you’ll love this*. Paleontologists have discovered a 55 million year old parrot fossil in northwestern Denmark. Apparently, the writers of the paper couldn’t resist dipping into the rich well of humour they had inadvertently uncovered with the fossil. In the words of [...]

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