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Scutes on my mind (Megumi ISHITANI)

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Fossilized dinosaur eggs with the embryos still preserved. Discovered in China’s Yunnan province by paleontologists from the University of Toronto. The eggs belong to the Late Jurassic, a geologic period that occurred roughly 190 million years ago.

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Just back from dinosaurs in the wild, and yes, it is as good as it looks! Full report coming soon on my website!

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The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life - Review

The Etches Collection is a wonderful museum that really transports you back in time.

  Plesiosaur on the wall as you drive into the car park already hints at what the collection is about – fossils! Photo by TyrannosaurUniversity   The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life is a museum focused entirely on Jurassic marine life. But not just any marine life. Jurassic marine life from the Kimmeridgian age of the Late Jurassic. And all was collected by one man – Steve…

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Just in case you were wondering what giant ash darker Theresas might have looked like

@palaeofail-explained I think you should see this

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by NATALIE WOLCHOVER

(wired.com)  The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics. His equations suggested that under certain conditions, groups of atoms will naturally restructure themselves so as to burn more and more energy, facilitating the incessant dispersal of energy and the rise of “entropy” or disorder in the universe. England said this restructuring effect, which he calls dissipation-driven adaptation, fosters the growth of complex structures, including living things. The existence of life is no mystery or lucky break, he told Quanta in 2014, but rather follows from general physical principles and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” Since then, England, a 35-year-old associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been testing aspects of his idea in computer simulations. The two most significant of these studies were published this month—the more striking result in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the other in Physical Review Letters. The outcomes of both computer experiments appear to back England’s general thesis about dissipation-driven adaptation, though the implications for real life remain speculative.

“This is obviously a pioneering study,” Michael Lässig, a statistical physicist and quantitative biologist at the University of Cologne in Germany, said of the PNAS paper written by England and an MIT postdoctoral fellow, Jordan Horowitz. It’s “a case study about a given set of rules on a relatively small system, so it’s maybe a bit early to say whether it generalizes,” Lässig said. “But the obvious interest is to ask what this means for life.”

(Excerpt please click link for the full article)

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See how big dinosaurs really were!

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The human should be standing still, or they’d pass by each other faster. Super cool video, though.

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I really like this series

If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and wonderfulest.

NEW from EONS!

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Tumblrinos! Here’s a fresh episode of PBS Eons! In which I discuss phylogeny, Tully Monster & other Problematica. Enjoy!

And I’m finishing up a new post about an intriguing burial in Montana. Remember archaeology? Yeah, I still write about that.

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I'm Going to Build Jurassic Park - Part XI

We're back figuring out how to build Jurassic Park. On with the ichthyosaurs!

I haven’t written one of these in a while. I just kind of stopped writing when I finished the Planet Dinosaur reviews and went back to writing conventional articles. But with the Jurassic hype starting up again soon with the upcoming 2018 release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, I decided to get this thing back up and running. If you aren’t familiar with the series, it started way back here and…

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David Peters isn’t looking very reliable.

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My insect ancestors ruled the Earth once, you know!

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Here's a quiz I've made to put your Palaeontology skills to a test! Please reblog and try and share this as much as you can because I'm doing this for a survey to see what level I should base my writing against. All results are anonymous, and you will be able to see them for free at my website shortly? Thank you for your help.

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Take the quiz to see how good you are at Palaeontology! How good are you at Palaeontology? Find out today with my quick, easy quiz. 20 questions to complete, ranging in difficulty from beginners to experts!

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Amargasaurus: Sail or Spines?

Did this famous show-off sauropod have sharp spines or a showy sail? It's Amargasaurus time!

Although the awesome Amargasaurus cazaui isn’t as famous as some sauropods, say, Brontosaurus (which is a recognised name now, by the way!), the creature’s distinctive appearance has made it increasingly popular. I mean, who couldn’t notice the sail on it’s back. Sail? Or spines? This is where it gets confusing. Spines or Sails? Spine by Nobu Tamura, Sails by Wikimedia user ArthurWeasley I’m…