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Hello friends. It’s been a while since I posted. I have not forgotten about you. I’m about two weeks away from meeting the tiny human I’ve been growing, and I’ve been running pretty low on energy. You may or may not know that the team behind

Last week, an article came out about an ichthyosaur from the United Kingdom. Ichthyosaurs are marine reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic. They had bodies shaped like dolphins and gave birth to their babies instead of laying eggs. This article described a few new specimens that were found in the

Last week, a new little reptile was described from the Late Triassic (around 212 million years ago) of Connecticut (USA). The specimen was originally found in 1965, but it took almost 30 years before its first description was published in 1993. This new study adds in modern scanning and analysis

Today we’re focusing on a little story out of Bend, Oregon. A 6-year-old girl named Naomi Vaughan went off to play in the sagebrush as her mom cheered on a JV soccer team, and she found something extraordinary. Naomi decided to dig in the dirt, and in her explorations,

This week, a paper came out describing a new baby enantiornithine. Enantiornithines are early birds that are closely related to the birds we see today, but part of a separate group. All enantiornithines went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. This paper describes a fossil from the Early Cretaceous

Many ankylosaurs, the armored dinosaurs, have been found upside down when they’ve been discovered, especially when they’ve been found in river beds or marine sediments. Researchers have had different ideas as to why this might be the case. A new study tested several hypotheses to figure out which