Saturday, September 3, 2011

Smok wawelski, giant Late Triassic Archosaur from Poland

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The Wawel Dragon (in Polish ‘Smok Wawelski’) is a famous beast of the Polish folklore that was bringing havoc in the countryside near Krakow...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Nasutuceratops titusi, a new ceratopsian from Utah

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The Kaiparowits Formation of Late Cretaceous Campanian age, in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Southern Utah, has in ...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Latoplatecarpus willistoni, a new Mosasaur from the Western Interior Seaway

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Fig 1.- Latoplatecarpus willistoni had a streamline body. Mosasaurs are a group of highly successful marine lizards from the Late Cretaceo...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Diodorus scytobrachion, a new silesaurid from the Late Triassic of Morocco

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  Fig 1.- Asilisaurus kongwe , from Tanzania. The Silesaurids form a family of archosaurs closely related to the dinosaurs. They appeared ...

Hyracotherium & Mesohippus

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Starting a series of illustrations on the Early horses... The 40 cm tall early horse Hyracotherium (= Eohippus ) was widely distributed a...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Samrukia nessovi, the prehistoric giant bird from Kazakhstan

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Fig 1.- Very hypothetical reconstruction of Samrukia nessovi . In a recent article published in Biology Letters, Darren Naish and colleagu...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Xiaotingia zhengi or is Archaeopteryx still a bird?

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Fig 1.- A reconstruction of Xiaotingia zhengi . Xiaotingia zhengi is a new small carnivorous theropod dinosaur discovered in the Late Jur...
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