by Rafael Silva do Nascimento and Piter Kehoma Boll
Today’s the first anniversay of the blog! We would like to thank our visitors for helping in our humble first year of existence!
News
- Xenoceratops, the “alien” horned dinosaur found in Canada.
- New Iguanodontid found in coal mine in Spain, story from a national news website.
- Homo (Sans) sapiens: Is Dumb and Dumber Our Evolutionary Destiny? The lack of natural selection is starting to make us loose our sapiens!
- Life abounds in Antartic lake sealed under ice. Salty, cold and dark, but still cozy to some bacterial pals.
Blog
- Coming Soon: A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds. Matthew Martyniuk talks about his upcoming unorthodox bird-watching book
- Review: All Yesterdays (Conway, Kosemen and Naish). SVPO overview on this new that might change the way we look at the past.
- Enter the hyperparasites -wasps that lay eggs in wasps that lay eggs in caterpillars. Ed Yong tells us about this parasite inception.
- What Makes a Paper Useful? Andrew Farke talks about what all researchers want .
Art
- Palaeotherium magnum by Roman Yevseyev, magnific realistic recreation of this ancient ungulate.
- Cervus elaphus cherskii by Margarita Panova, her gallery in deviantArt is full of marvelous depictions of extinct cervids. Really worth take a look.
- Dsungaripterus by Michele The Sea, a bat-esque reconstruction of this pterosaur that gave it an life-like atmosphere.
- Ornithomimus by Paul Heaston, following the latest researchs on ostrich-like dinosaurs.
- Great green macaw (Ara ambiguus) by namu-the-orca. This gallery is known for the cetaceans pictures, but also shows that the talent is not restricted to them.
Scientific Articles
- Forearm orientation in Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) and implications for museum mounts. Now the museum mounts must match the footprints.
- Empirical determination of physical controls on megafaunal footprint formation through neoichnological experiments with elephants. Giants used to study giants.
- Vocal Imitation in Parrots Allows Addressing of Specific Individuals in a Dynamic Communication Network. So Parrots mock each other to say “hey, I’m talking to you!”
- Heards Overhead: Nimbadon lavarackorum (Diprotodontidae), Heavyweight Marsupial Herbivores in the Miocene Forests of Australia. It’s like a fat giant koala on the trees!
- A genetically distinct lion (Panthera leo) population from Ethiopia. And you though we already knew everything about lions.
