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Anatomy For All
©Brian GreenstoneHeliobatis fossils from the Green River Formation are very nearly the epitome of lagerstätten fossils. Because the preservation is so exceptional, there is a lot known about Heliobatis...
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Lacking in Illustrations
The exquisite preservation of Heliobatis is often all anyone needs to imagine this animal punting along (that is correct verb to describe ray swimming) the bottom of the freshwater habitats they called...
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The Not-A-Beaver Family Tree
©Nobu TamuraIn the past, at least once, we have discussed the rodent family Castoridae which includes the two extant members of beaver (North American and Eurasian Beaver both). This week we will be...
View ArticleInformation In Motion
Castorocauda has few informational websites. Instead of sending people to multiple sites to learn some quick facts about this Jurassic mammal today, here is the WizScience video that contains pretty...
View ArticleSupposed Jurassic Beaver
Dinosaur Revolution was a Discovery Channel documentary that aired in 2011and consisted of four episodes that explored topics from evolution to defensive and offensive tactics of different dinosaurs....
View ArticleThe Literary Accomplishments of Small Mammals
Castorocauda is one of the better preserved mammalian specimens of the fossil record. Not simply of the Jurassic fossil record, but the entire mammalian fossil record. There are a number of younger...
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Fur Anatomy
The fur of Castorocauda has been described as consisting of two kinds of mammalian fur: guard hairs and underfur. These two kinds of fur seen in the fossil of Castorocauda provided some of the first...
View ArticleA Furry Star
Whenever any fossil is found in a level of completeness like that of Castorocauda it becomes a little bit more famous than other fossil animals. Sometimes this popular knowledge of a taxon remains and...
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Flying Fun
Aerial acrobatics in the days of the dinosaurs were not conducted by birds or bats, not early on at least. During the Triassic there were a number of small reptiles capable of flight, the pterosaurs....
View ArticleTwo Movies
Peteinosaurus appears in a few television roles, but only one is relevant today. There is a second video that is relevant to today in that it relays facts and shows some relevant illustrations of the...
View ArticleSupporting Character on Wings
First and foremost, here is a link to the episode of Dinosaur Train that introduced "Petey the Peteinosaurus" (there are a number of versions of this but this is the only full episode that is not...
View ArticleFlying Literature
The literature history of pterosaurs is quite extensive. Peteinosaurus is not neglected in that rich history either. The paper naming and describing Peteinosaurus is difficult to find online, but...
View ArticleHeadless Pterosaurs
Despite well preserved slab fossils, not a single specimen of Peteinosaurus possessed an intact skull or any skull actually. The teeth of Peteinosaurus are known somehow, though. Three types of conical...
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Looking Similar
Peteinosaurus illustrations are like many pterosaur illustrations in that they all look very similar and very often depict a flying reptile with wings spread and mouth open. The less popular version,...
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Newer Dromaeosaurs
©Nobu TamuraIt has long been hypothesized that the origin of dromaeosaurs was likely to be found in Asia where preservation is fairly good and basal characteristics of dromaeosaurs are found in a...
View ArticleMahakala Facts
First return on a search for Mahakala videos is the WizScience video that relays all of the facts that we know about the dinosaur. This video also contains a lot of different images of Mahakala. It is...
View ArticleOf Flying Size
Dromaeosaurs are closely related to birds and research concerning dromaeosaurs and birds sometimes inform one another and other times are conducted in concert with one another. An interesting paper...
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Popular Tiny Dromaeosaurs
In 2007 Mahakala was popular for a brief time and heralded as a news story celebrating an interesting new building block of evolution. Mahakala was never popular as a dinosaur for being a dinosaur in...
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Squirrel Mocking
Photo by Ghedoghedo2012 saw the official description of an informally announced coelurosaurian dinosaur with feathers preserved along its tail that were as bushy as the tail of squirrel. Adding further...
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A Short Tour in Squirrel Dinosaur Knowledge
©Emily WilloughbyThere is actually no WizScience video for Sciurumimus; this is possibly the first time in years that we have been able to say that there is not a video available for a given dinosaur...
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