by Captain Skellett | Feb 23, 2011 | Recent Research
Across my twitter feed today we welcomed a new dinosaur. Brontomerus mcintoshi was named for it’s “thunder-thighs” and as honour to retired physicist and avocational paleontologist “Jack” McIntosh. I hope Jack has no hang-ups about his...
by Captain Skellett | Jul 11, 2010 | Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
Mojo: The libido. The life force. The essence. The right stuff. What the French call a certain… I don’t know what. Mojoceratops was discovered when Nicholas Longrich from Yale University was looking at existing fossils from American Museum of Natural...
by Captain Skellett | Mar 22, 2010 | Recent Research
Meet Linheraptor exquisitus, a species related to the infamous Velociraptor. It was discovered in the Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia. The paper was published in Zootaxa a couple of days ago. Two PhD students named Michael Pittman and Jonah Choinier made the discovery....