Obscure Dinosaur Profile #13: Tarbosaurus
Family tree: Theropoda > Tetanurae > Coelurosauria > Tyrannosauroidea > Tyrannosauridae > Tyrannosaurinae
Radiometric Dating Explained
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...
Obscure Dinosaur Profile #12: The Largest Non-Gravisaurian Dinosaurs
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”)...
Breaking News: Spinosaur Swimming and Sauropod Sails
Every so often, a scientific paper comes out that rocks the paleontology community and gets paleoartists flocking to make updated depictions reflecting the new information. In the past I’ve done a couple of Obscure Dinosaur Profiles prompted by such developments,...
Dinosaur Photography 7: Denver Birds
The other thing I did in Denver was take some pictures of birds that don’t live around here. (Do you think it was just a trip to collect content for this blog?) I also took a road trip recently to...