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Xiphactinus For Kids
Name:Xiphactinus (combination Latin and Greek for "sword ray"); pronounced zih-FACK-tih-nussX. audax X. vestusHabitat:Shallow waters of North America, Europe, Australia Historical Period:Late...
View ArticleSwimming with Xiphactinus
As has been mentioned in some of the Facebook posts (not necessarily on the blog posts) National Geographic's Xiphactinus is not spectacular due to television standardization; meaning sometimes the...
View ArticleFish of Many Letters
My favorite papers are always the older papers, with rare exception. It is not because I am a traditionalist or that I find current science to be less educated or informed, it is totally the language...
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Xiphactinus The Swallower
As mentioned previously, the gluttony of Xiphactinus has been to our benefit as a paleontologist community. Finds of Xiphactinus that are fully articulated tend to be quite often associated with other...
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A Positive Bias Fossil
Bias in the records, rock and fossil, are always of paramount concern to paleontologists and a positive bias, while not always a good thing, is far more welcome than a negative bias typically....
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Ginsu; Not Just Knives
©Dan Varner (It is also the cover image of Oceans of Kansas)When I was planning out February and March back in late November I knew that my birthday would fall in one of these weeks and I also knew...
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The Changing Shark Body Plan
©Tuomas KoivurinneCretoxyrhina was not always a bloodthirsty hunter. As happens in nature there were probably times like this one in which great hunters such as Tylosaurus and Cretoxyrhina crossed...
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Carla and Some Kid Friendly Facts
From Wikimedia CommonsThere are a few pages that have child friendly facts. I think the most concise and one of the better ones is the National Geographic page dedicated to Cretoxyrhina within their...
View ArticleCretoxyrhina Lies Under the Ocean
A small National Geographic vignette on a few of the animals featured in their Sea Monsters movie displays and briefly discusses Cretoxyrhina, presenting some concise facts about the animal. The model...
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Shimada Loves Sharks
While we happened to have a lot of information and input on Tylosaurus and Xiphactinus from Mr. Everhart, and he does have quite a bit of research behind him on Cretoxyrhina as well, the researcher to...
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Teeth of A Killer
©Mike Everhart (he notes that this is a "small part" of his collection)As noted previously, the teeth of Cretoxyrhina are one of the most common preserved elements of the shark. There are, of course,...
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Sharks and Being Popular
Cretoxyrhina, as we have seen, is a popular shark in documentaries, on kid's shows, as fossil remains, illustrations, and the subject of papers and books. Now we can add toys to that list, of course we...
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Toxic Shells?
Discovered at Keystone GalleryToxochelys is a sea turtle genus. There have been a few sites that have compared the genus to Loggerhead turtles and a few that have compare it to modern Green sea...
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That Eerie Smiling
I have yet to find a turtle skeleton that does not seem to have some degree of perpetual smile. Snapping turtles maybe, they scowl when alive so it is a good bet they do as skeletons, but certainly not...
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I found this nifty little number in an image search. It was hosted on Scoopweb. There are no real coloring pages that are specifically supposed to be Toxochelys turtles and there are also no cartoons...
View ArticleWelcome To A Lack of Videos
Searching for videos of Toxochelys turns up a wealth of 3 whole videos that mention Toxochelys; one of these does not even have anything to do with the turtle, so it is pointless to share. One of the...
View ArticleSome Good Papers
I have a number of papers I enjoyed this week. The first is O.P. Hay's long communications in the American Natural History Bulletin. The title was "A Revision of the Species of the Family of Fossil...
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Rocky Mountain Turtles
The Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center (RMDRC), aside from being a mouthful to say, houses a Toxochelys discovered by Mike Triebold in 1993 in Lane County, Kansas. Lane County is in the western...
View ArticleTurtle's Last Hurrah
Despite the respectively "vast" amount of material that exists for Toxochelys there is not a lot of popular mention of them. We have, of course, shown places that they can be found (in part thanks to...
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Remembering Mary
©Heinrich HarderIn the early 19th century, 1811, Joseph and Mary Anning, young adults of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, were exploring their world when young Joseph turned up a rather fish-like reptilian...
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