Spectre’s Sayings

Yahoo News is reporting that Utah announced a major dinosaur fossil discovery. This is cool. My local newspaper additionally said that researchers from Rockford, Illinois were in on the discovery.

Too similar to South American dino? Aussie dinosaur bone takes bite out of theory of continental drift.

Yahoo News is reporting that scientists have discovered a “frogamander” fossil.

The Discovery Channel discusses it.

The “Devil Toad”, an ancient frog as big as a bowling ball with armor and teeth, lived among the dinosaurs.

There’s a blog post about it here.

Yahoo News is reporting that fossils of two new meat-eating dinosaurs were found in Africa.

It seems that bats evolved flight before they evolved the ability to echolocate.

Stories about a new crested duck-billed dinosaur found in Mexico can be found here and here.

Finally, a new species of flying reptile was found in China.

A toothless, tiny pterodactyl fossil was found in China.

This is interesting, even though it seems to me to smack of hubris and narcissism.

This is kind of an old story, but I just came across it. Seems that in China, the remains of an early mammal were found with its last meal still in its stomach … and that meal has been identified as a small dinosaur. Read the story here.

Scientists searching for fossils in the Andes have discovered the 18 million year old remains of an ancient relative of the armadillo. In life, Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis was about 2.5 feet long and weighed in at 200 pounds. As impressive as that is, it’s nothing compared to a later relative. The Glyptodon, another armadillo relative, which went extinct a mere 10,000 years ago, was 10 feet long, and weighed 2 tonnes.

Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric “monster” reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science, researchers said Tuesday.

Yahoo News has an article about a mummified dinosaur that may have been able to outrun T Rex. The muscles, skin, and possibly some internal organs fossilized along with the bones. Seems Hadrosaurs were more muscular than previously thought.

Update: National Geographic has photos.

Paleontologists in Alberta have discovered a new ceratopsian genus. This dinosaur, which was given the name Eotriceratops xerinsularis, is the earliest and largest known member of the Triceratops group.

According to researchers, Eotriceratops likely reached eight or nine meters from nose to tail. It had a massive skull that featured a solid frill (this alone was three meters in length), and three horns - two above each eye, and another, shorter one, perched on its nose.

The immense fossilised claw of a 2.5m-long (8ft) sea scorpion has been described by European researchers.