A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
There are a lot of named phenomena in paleontology that refer to specific circumstances, which I think are really interesting but are hard to search for. Often they’re patterns or paradoxes named after the individual thinkers who came up with...
Venturing outside the realm of Mesozoic reptiles, here’s an overview of the mostly-Permian early diversity of our own lineage, the synapsids. The Permian Period (299-252 million years ago) was the last period of the Paleozoic Era, and was characterized by...
Part 3 of my dinosaur photography series. Lots of new birds!
Niche partitioning is a really fundamental concept in ecology that influences the way organisms live, compete, and evolve. In this post, I’m going to go over what exactly it means, how it works, and some interesting fossil examples.
Family tree: Synapsida > Therapsida > Eutherapsida > Neotherapsida > Anomodontia > Dicynodontia