Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
Happy New Year! As we look forward to 2019’s paleontology discoveries, let’s also look back upon some of the open access dinosaurs of 2018. Last year saw nearly forty newly coined non-avian dinosaur taxa–over half
0000-0001-7794-0218Ankylosaurs are the group of herbivorous ornithischians that looked like armoured-rhinos. Renowned for being covered in thick bony plates for protection against predators, many also wielded dangerous clubs on their tails – even lending some
0000-0002-6784-3980When someone studies migration patterns of different organisms, one may consider many lines of evidence. For modern organisms, that is easy: visual and audio cues, tracks, feces, etc. In the fossil record, it can be
0000-0001-7794-0218Mistaken identity In Palaeontology, there is perhaps no greater story of an accidental mix-up than the story of Oviraptor. When this dinosaur was first discovered back in 1924, it was alongside a clutch of fossilised
0000-0001-7794-0218Discovering new dinosaurs is very romantic, isn’t it? A team of plucky explorers stumbles across a small bone sticking out of a cliff, and after a bit of digging around it reveals a complete dinosaur
0000-0001-7794-0218You might think dating dinosaurs would be an easy task, but in reality it’s actually quite difficult. We date dinosaurs based on where we find their fossils, using the ages of the rocks that they’re
0000-0001-7794-0218Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes, and were the weird wonderful show-offs of the Mesozoic world. From massive, plated body armour to elaborate frilly head shields and rock solid bone-heads, they sported just about
0000-0001-7794-0218This is a guest post by Matt Baron, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, UK. Take a walk around the Free State of South Africa, or, if you fancy it, Lesotho (le-sOO-tOO), and you
0000-0001-7794-0218The Australian outback. Known for a few, very specific things. Kangaroos. Sand. Lots of animals that want to kill you. More sand. Paul Hogan. And dinosaurs! Some of the very best dinosaur fossils we know
0000-0001-7794-0218Over the last 20 years, there has grown insurmountable evidence that birds are the direct modern descendants of dinosaurs. Eagles are dinosaurs. Pigeons are dinosaurs, annoyingly. Even penguins are weird, swimming dinosaurs. The data supporting this comes
