O. C. Marsh | 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 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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]]> 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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]]> Dinosaurs dragging their bellies—Huh? https://boneblogger.com/dinosaurs-dragging-their-bellies%e2%80%94huh/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dinosaurs-dragging-their-bellies%25e2%2580%2594huh Thu, 27 May 2010 00:38:03 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1307 Isaac Newton famously wrote in 1676,“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” This gets to the heart of the scientific process—a gradual addition and refinement of human knowledge and understanding of the natural world. But, of course, sometimes even giants had wacky ideas. The particular “giant” to whom […]

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]]> Giant Short-Faced Bear: a Northern California Original https://boneblogger.com/giant-short-faced-bear-a-northern-california-original/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=giant-short-faced-bear-a-northern-california-original Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:55:59 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=28 In 1878, James D. Richardson explored Potter Creek Cave in Shasta County, California. He found the skull of a bear beneath several inches of cave dirt, and he sent the specimen to Edward D. Cope, who determined that it was the type specimen for a new species of American “cave bear” (Cope, 1879). When a […]

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