epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Matthew T. Carrano & Kirk R. Johnson & Jay Matternes

Strangely Spiked Skulls Syndoceras was a type of protoceratid, a now-extinct group of hoofed mammals with bony horns like those of today’s pronghorn and cattle. The forked nose horn was ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:David B Weishampel & Coralia-Maria Jianu [Weishampel, David B & Jianu, Coralia-Maria]

CONTINGENCY AND THE TRANSYLVANIAN DINOSAURS If anywhere in the world should reveal the power of contingency, it would be somewhere like Transylvania in the Cretaceous, where historical possibilities and pathways ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-21 | Author:Olivier Rieppel

The Genus Lariosaurus In his survey of the fossil biota of Monte San Giorgio, Kuhn-Schnyder illustrated a small lariosaur that was collected in 1971 in Val Mare near Meride, which ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:J. Michael Parrish & Ralph E. Molnar & Philip J. Currie & Eva B. Koppelhus

Summary The purpose of this study was assessment of the relative brain and relative cerebrum size of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs (Tyrannosaurus rex, Gorgosaurus, and Nanotyrannus) and comparison of these data to ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Olivier Rieppel [Rieppel, Olivier]

A German Jew in America Richard Benedict Goldschmidt came, as he himself put it, “from an old German-Jewish family” (Stern, 1967:172; for a review of Goldschmidt’s life and work, see ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Norman, David; [Norman, David;]

29. Deinonychus. A reconstruction from bone to flesh. Perhaps it too had a filamentous covering? Ornithischian dinosaurs All ornithischians are thought to have been herbivorous and, rather like modern-day mammals, ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:George M. Lubick

Painted Desert Inn, 1940, following the renovation by the Civilian Conservation Corps (Photograph courtesy of Petrified Forest National Park) By the end of the following year, renovation was nearly finished. ...

epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Thomson, Keith; [Thomson, Keith;]

Chapter 6 Bringing fossils to life Palaeontology is rarely a glamorous saga of digging up whole skeletons or entire communities preserved intact in a nice soft rock; most often it ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

The first extinctions For the first few billion years of Earth history, during the Precambrian Eon, evolution was on the microbial, single-celled level. This changed around 540 million years ago ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

FIVE How Human Is Man? Be not under any Brutal Metempsychosis while thou livest and walkest about erectly under the scheme of Man. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE OVER A HUNDRED years ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

II “Every man,” Thoreau once recorded in his journal, “tracks himself through life.” Thoreau meant that the individual in all his reading, his traveling, his observations, would follow only his ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-15 | Author:Michael J Benton

The embryo of Massospondylus curled up neatly inside its egg. Genus: Massospondylus Species: carinatus Named by: Richard Owen, 1854 Age: Early Jurassic, 201–191 million years ago Fossil location: South Africa, ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Helen Phillips

19 She woke up in the Pit. She was alone. The Pit was its normal color. So was the sky. She cried for joy, realizing it had all been a ...

azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2018-04-23 | Author:Brusatte, Steve [Brusatte, Steve]

The brain cavity (upper right-hand corner) and sinuses inside the skull of a Tyrannosaurus rex, revealed by CAT scans. Courtesy of Larry Witmer. That’s the final piece of the puzzle, ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2011-03-06 | Author:Mayor, Adrienne [Mayor, Adrienne]

Evidence of Giant Populations of the Past Not all fabulous creatures of myth were inspired by fossils, of course; some were imaginary. And it’s impossible to know which came first, ...