Paleontology

It is often said in science that the present is the key to the past. Just as this is true for geologic events such as earthquakes and extraterrestrial impacts, the same can be said for biological and ecological processes as…
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A catastrophic scene: a Tyrannosaur roaring atop a mountain as meteorite fragments explode all around him. Though this scene is both unrealistic and comically dramatic, it raises the question: how did the Great Extinction transpire? WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH Widely…
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Allosaurus was death on two legs – two very strong, very powerful legs. With a length of 35-40 feet, a height of 16 feet and weighing in at 3 tons, Allosaurus was a ferocious carnivorous dinosaur that terrorized the earth…
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There were big dinosaurs and there were small dinosaurs. There were the meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs. There were the slow and fast dinosaurs. There was the dinosaur that combines small, fast, meat-eating and vicious characteristics. They were the velociraptors. Velociraptors…
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In 1923, the crushed skull and sickle-shaped second toe of a small, turkey-sized dinosaur was found in the Late Cretaceous sandstones of the Djadokhta Formation in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of…
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One of the most fascinating things about dinosaurs might be all the unanswered questions people have about them. Scientists can make educated assumptions from the evidence left behind and yet there are always other possibilities. Mankind may never really know…
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“Saber-toothed squirrel from age of dinosaurs discovered,” announced the headline in the Christian Science Monitor. The discovery of skull and jaw fragments has reinvigorated the debate about the origins of mammals and which of these tiny creatures represent evolutionary dead ends….
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Paleontologists say that they have discovered the fossil remains of one of the largest prehistoric predators to have roamed North America. Named Siats meekerorum, the new dinosaur species, is believed to have lived around 98 million years ago during the…
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Some scientists dream of finding a cure for cancer, others work to find the ultimate energy resource. Jack Horner wants to bring back the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Horner is a certified genius. Like Bill Gates he never graduated from college. He…
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The so-called “Primordial Soup” theory postulates that the first living organism developed on Earth’s oceans within a milieu of nitrogen, ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide and water. Add some energy (say from lightening in a storm) to this “soup” of basic…
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