A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
I recently went on a trip to Boston to visit friends, and of course had to make a detour to see the Harvard Museum of Natural History, which was the home of the famed paleontologist Alfred Romer (of Romer’s Gap)...
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Family tree: Theropoda > Tetanurae > Coelurosauria > Tyrannosauroidea > Tyrannosauridae > Tyrannosaurinae
Radiometric dating is the process by which scientists use radioactive trace elements to determine the age of fossils and artifacts (carbon dating is a type of radiometric dating). It’s a super fundamental concept in paleontology, geology, archaeology, and astronomy–it’s how...
As I’ve discussed previously, sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) had a suite of adaptations that allowed them to reach tremendous sizes, never seen before or since in a land animal. Several groups of sauropods, all within the clade Gravisauria (meaning “heavy reptiles”)...