Kansas | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:54:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Fossil tells a new tail https://boneblogger.com/fossil-tells-a-new-tail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fossil-tells-a-new-tail Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:12:59 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1942 Mosasaurs lived in the world’s oceans during the Late Cretaceous, the last Period from the Age of Dinosaurs (see the geologic time scale). They are close relatives of modern snakes and lizards, and during the Cretaceous they become fully aquatic sea monsters, growing to tremendous sizes, and were the top predators of their environments. Their […]

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]]> New evidence on the sizes of pterosaurs https://boneblogger.com/new-evidence-on-the-sizes-of-pterosaurs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-evidence-on-the-sizes-of-pterosaurs Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:24:52 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1516 The flying reptiles, pterosaurs, were an amazing successful group of prehistoric animals. They ranged from the Late Triassic through the end of the Cretaceous periods, a span of time of about 156 million years. That is over 2 times longer than the time since dinosaurs became extinct, and mammals have dominated the terrestrial landscape. Pterosaurs […]

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]]> My National Geographic moment https://boneblogger.com/my-national-geographic-moment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-national-geographic-moment Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:47:27 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1449 “A photographer from National Geographic wants to talk to you.” These words, or words to those effect, met me as I came into the museum office one day back in 2001, and they definitely caught my attention. It was 2001 and I was Assistant Director of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. We had just […]

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]]> Fossil ‘discovery’ rewrites history https://boneblogger.com/fossil-discovery-rewrites-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fossil-discovery-rewrites-history Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:36:16 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=121 Originally published in the Hays Daily News 21 February 2010 By MIKE CORN mcorn@dailynews.net For nearly 40 years, it’s been tucked away in a storage room at the University of Kansas, little more than a bag of bones that at the time it was collected struck even the most experienced as unusual. The late Marion […]

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]]> What is paleontology https://boneblogger.com/what-is-paleontology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-paleontology Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:00:23 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=104 What questions fall within the purview of “Paleontology”? Quite a wide variety, it turns out, because paleontology is the study of prehistoric life – the exploration of the entire history of life. Since 99.9% of all species that existed are now extinct, that is a lot of biodiversity. The science is multifaceted and diverse because […]

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