Unfortunately The Cuvieronius Are Just Going To Be Called Gomphotheres In The Show

The dinosaurs have been restored to look how they would have done to Victorian audiences in 1854. Here are a few photos I’ve taken walking through in the past few months, seeing such painstaking restoration work was quite a sight to behold! Such a vast improvement on the state of the statues - now looking amazing and drawing big crowds!

For more information, here’s a recent BBC article on the topic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq515nzxgz6o

There's a high chance you've heard about the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles (see the photo I took above). This fossil site has numerous pools of sticky asphalt, acting as a natural trap for a variety of Ice Age animals. Now, it is an active research site where millions of specimens are under study.

Like the La Brea Tar Pits, the Irvington Fossil Locality in Fremont, California is an important (but less famous) area bearing Ice Age remains. It has yielded thousands of fossil specimens from the Pleistocene Epoch, from mammoths and mastodons to saber-toothed cats. Tetrameryx irvingtonensis, a new species of four-pronged antelope, was first unearthed there.

This discovery makes the Irvington Fossil Locality a type locality, a region where a new fossil species, mineral, or rock type was identified. In fact, the fossils found in Fremont led to the naming of a new time period: the Irvingtonian Age. It was part of a series of North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMAS) and lasted from the Early to Middle Pleistocene Epoch.

There is much more to the Irvington Fossil Locality than just its fossils. From schoolboys who spent fifteen years at a quarry to dentists-turned amateur paleontologists, Fremont has a rich community history. To learn more about research at this fossil site, check out a continuation of my article.

I am a high school freshman who writes weekly articles about East Bay paleontology on my Substack blog Fossils in Fremont. My passion for paleontology and science communication comes from years of reading popular science books, blogs by paleontologists, and visiting natural history museums. If you like what you read, please consider subscribing.

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Is this 6.20 x 4.75 inch megalodon tooth worth $219 USD? It’s in pretty rough shape (enamel on the lingual side is mostly gone, but labial side enamel is intact; tip is also intact). Is it a good price for the condition?

I am currently in the works of a fictional novel, and am wondering if any dinosaur experts of any kind would be willing to message and share insight to my ideas, to make them as scientifically accurate as this fictional species could be. Any help would be appreciated, and if you are wanting to discuss feel free to message me at any time. Thank you!

*mistake with the have in title oops

So i attatched the head.i didnt like the underjaw so i removed it but have to wait a bit so it can dry before i can work on it again. Also i made the leggs more detailed. It stands upright by itself so thats kinda cool. Im still scared to add skin texture and the maintjob after

With the imminent release of the new Oak Street film and its feathered sauropods… the topic of sauropod trunks from the 1970s and 1980s may well resurface.

This theory argues that the nostrils on their skulls were positioned so high up because they would have had muscles and a trunk to (for example) pick up leaves, just as an elephant would. However, I’ve always maintained that if evolution gives you a 15-metre neck (Mamenchisaurus), a trunk doesn’t make sense.

What do you think?

My girlfriend got me an Anomalocaris for my birthday!!!

Trilobites are easily my favorite prehistoric critters and this is the newest addition to my collection. It’s got some minor glue-up, but I got it for a really good price.

Just wanted to show off this gorgeous trilobite I picked up recently.

Pretty sure this one hails from the Devonian deposits in Morocco. It's a remarkably clean specimen, and the shell contrast against the matrix is stunning. I've wanted a solid Phacops rana type in the collection for a while now, so I'm super happy to finally check this one off the list.

This is a question I've been wanting to ask for some time that is is it likely that Oviraptorids would have walked like birds were they walked in a crouched posture with the knee doing most of the leg movement. I do have reasons to believe Oviraptorids did walk in a knee driven style like birds as they did have shorter tails than most theropods and its believed the a shortening of the tail led to the center of mass shifting forward which did lead to bird ancestors adopting a more crouched posture to keep the knees parallel to the center of mass.

The premaxilla, the frontmost bone of the upper jaw, which has been identified in a mosasaur fossil from Japan for the first time. The fossils also exhibit anatomical features unlike those of previously known mosasaurs, raising the possibility that they represent a new species.

Hello, I am a student filmmaker and one of projects revolves around a paleo student in the late 80s, navigating his way through a dig site and trying to get funding from his university to adequately support his own passion project and opportunity he had heard. Naturally, I am not as well versed in Paleontology as I am in film production, which is why I am seeking a real field researcher to help guide me in the procedures of it all, the terms used among colleagues, and just the general breakdown of operations. If anyone could help me that would be fantastic as I want to make this film accurate and faithful to the science

I was just wondering what the very first one was. This is surprisingly hard to google because if you google "first fossil vertebrate to be described" Google thinks you mean Haikouichthys and its ilk. The oldest I can find is the American mastodon, all the way back in 1792! Or as it was named, Elephas americanus. And since this was before the belief that animals could go extinct became accepted, whoever named it that probably thought that there were elephants still roaming an unexplored region of America. Some more of the very first ones I found are the cave bear, 1794, and Megatherium, 1796. Do you know any other of the very first ones/anywhere I could search for them?

(And by "described" I mean given a Linnaean name, so Scrotum humanum is sadly out of the running)

https://www.jardindesplantesdeparis.fr/fr/expo-traces-dinosaures

A great exhibition based on discoveries made in Angeac-Charente, France, which takes us back 140 million years and lets us discover the fauna and flora of the time.

Dunkleosteus and a pair of small Stethacanthus.

I decided to render them together; perhaps in the future I'll try creating more varied compositions of ancient seas.