Paleontology

The Characteristics of the Sauriscia order of Dinosaurs The characteristics of the Saurischia order of dinosaurs are mainly the pelvis, but also some other features. The saurischians have a lizard-like pelvis, which is different than ornithischians’ bird pelvis. Saurischians have…
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Of the two orders that divide Dinosauria, Saurischia claims the largest land animals, the fiercest carnivores, the oldest known dinosaurs, and the ancestral lineage of the birds. The Order Saurischia was established by Harry G. Seeley in lectures presented in…
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The first thing that comes to mind when fossils are mentioned are the complete skeletons of dinosaurs that adorn the natural history museums of the world. However, dinosaur trace fossils embody an important record of behavior and distribution that augments…
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The Saurischia order of dinosaurs is one of two broad groups of dinosaurs, Saurischia and Ornithischia. The Order Saurischia is characterized mainly by the pelvic structure of these dinosaurs, and includes such animals as Tyranasaurus rex, Allosaurus, and Diplodocus. In…
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Not exactly what the little guy anticipated:  A warm misty morning in what will many millions of years in the future become the State of Arizona. A small – less than 6 feet total length, much of that tail –…
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Palaeobotany is the study of plant remains of the distant past.  It exists in the form of ‘fossils’ which are the vestigial remnants of plants that indicate the evolution of the present day plants.   Plants that lived millions of…
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Some people will go to great length to prove something exists; even if it means posting videos that were obvious hoaxes. Case in point: during the summer of 2010, flying dinosaurs were soaring above the beaches of Papua New Guinea. …
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Dinosaurs lived for roughly 160 million years, when we think about the climate they lived in, we often assume it was either hot and dry, or hot and muggy. In fact it was both, depending on which era we are…
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Paleontologists around the world are rejoicing—and anyone who ever harbored a secret fondness for dinosaurs, might be celebrating too. A fossilized pterosaur has been found with a fossilized egg between its legs allowing scientists to identify a female of the…
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Austroraptor (Latin for “Southern Thief”) was a dromaeosaurid dinosaur which lived during the Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago. The sole known surviving fossil, Austroraptor cabazi, was found in Argentina, but the full range of the species is unknown. It…
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