Obscure Dinosaur Profile #9: Shuvuuia
Family tree: Dinosauria > Saurischia > Theropoda > Alvarezsauridae
Everyday Biology
I was browsing Reddit and came across this comic, which I loved:
The Paleontological Merits of Fossil Pokémon
The Pokémon franchise takes a lot of inspiration from the natural world, including extinct plants and animals. While many of its designs are fanciful and some of its flavor text unscientific, I’d say in general it does a service to...
Building A Coin-Operated Crow Feeder (Part 2)
It’s been awhile since my last update on the status of the coin-operated crow feeder. Life’s been pretty busy, but that’s no excuse–there are crows to feed!
Obscure Dinosaur Profile #8: Diplodocus and a selection of sauropods
Moving back toward some more characteristic material this week. Sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) were a weight class of land animal the world has never seen before or since, and they’re woefully underrepresented on this blog. Not only were they objectively top...