Paleontology | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Tue, 13 May 2025 21:46:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 What’s the value of a fossil? https://boneblogger.com/whats-the-value-of-a-fossil/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-the-value-of-a-fossil Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:54:51 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2897 I have the privilege to work as a professional paleontologist. Many people are excited by fossils and beasts from the past, and the media loves to cover new discoveries. Periodically, a friend will ask if I had heard of the latest fossil find being discussed by the media, almost always touted as the latest, the […]

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]]> The largest pterosaurs have not been grounded yet https://boneblogger.com/the-largest-pterosaurs-have-not-been-grounded-yet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-largest-pterosaurs-have-not-been-grounded-yet Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:44:34 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2475 In one post (New evidence on the size of pterosaurs) we explored the study by Henderson (2010) in which he modeled pterosaur body forms to generate estimates of body mass. He modeled different areas of the body separately, applying various densities to the different body sections to calculate his masses. His results suggested that the […]

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]]> What to call the giant cat from the Ice Age? https://boneblogger.com/what-to-call-the-giant-cat-from-the-ice-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-call-the-giant-cat-from-the-ice-age Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:20:19 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2275 The Ice Age of the recent past was a fascinating time, full of superlative animals, especially the mammalian megafauna of North America. The Ice Age, also referred to as the Pleistocene epoch, lasted from 1.9 million years ago to 10,000 years ago, and was characterized by a series of glacial advances and retreats across much […]

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]]> Mammoth protein designed to be cool https://boneblogger.com/mammoth-protein-designed-to-be-cool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mammoth-protein-designed-to-be-cool Mon, 08 Nov 2010 01:00:05 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2257 Researchers were recently able to isolate and study woolly mammoth hemoglobin and compare it to the modern African and Asian elephants. They isolated the genes from DNA that code for the creation of hemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen in our blood. This was done for both the modern elephant species, as well as from DNA […]

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]]> Two dinosaurs become one https://boneblogger.com/two-dinosaurs-become-one/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=two-dinosaurs-become-one Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:15:24 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=2238 Earlier this year a paper was published (Scannella and Horner 2010) on one of the most well-known dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, Triceratops, updating our understanding of not only this dinosaur species, but also maybe influencing our view of many other dinosaur species as well. Triceratops was first described in 1889 by O. C. Marsh, […]

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