2018

SUnknownWhat the Hell is Chalicotherium?!

Fri, Jul 08, 2022

Chalicotherium is a huge mammal that became extinct less than for million years ago so it may have co-existed with early humans. Still it's something of a mystery. It's body plan of shot legs and long arms suggests it spent most of its day sitting and eating like the much smaller panda or gorilla. But it seems to be related to horses and their kin which have a very different life style.

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SUnknownMonograph of Eotyrannus, the Dawn Tyrant

Sat, Jul 16, 2022

Eotyrannus is a small early tyrannosaur. It is useful for study of how the various theropods should be classified and how tyrannosaurs evolved.

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SUnknownWhat the Hell was Xenokeryx?!

Sun, Jan 08, 2023

Xenokeryx was a ruminant related to many of the large herbivores alive today such a giraffes. Its fossils have been found in Spain and China and nowhere in between making it difficult to understand where it came from from both a geographic and evolutionary perspective.

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SUnknownWhat Do We Actually Know About Dinosaur Brains?

Sat, Jan 21, 2023

Although brains, comprised of soft tissue, rarely fossilize paleontologists have other clues about dinosaur brains. The brain case is an effective indicator of overall structure. Bones sometimes preserve nerve pathways. And, on rare occasions, fossilized brain tissue has been recovered.

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SUnknownWhy are there Trilobite Tridents?

Mon, Jan 23, 2023

The Walliserops Trilobite species have a mysterious trident protruding from their noses(?) There are several proposals for what it was for. The best appears to be intraspecies competition. This idea, however, raises more questions.

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SUnknownWTH is Smok Wawelski?!

Tue, Jan 31, 2023

Smok Wawelski was a bipedal, apex predator of the late Trassic discovered in Poland. It had a mix of features that make it hard to place even in the proper class as some features suggest Pseudosuchian (reptile) and others Theropod (dinosaur). It also has features that don't fit in either class or, like ankles, are missing in Smok.

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SUnknownLeptictidium: A Strange Dawn for the Age of Mammals

Thu, Mar 30, 2023

Leptictidium is a genus of early mammals with eight know species that are well represented in the fossil record. How they relate to modern mammals is somewhat unclear.

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SUnknownPerucetus: the Largest Whale Ever?

Fri, Aug 04, 2023

Paleontologists have discovered a partial skeleton for a whale-like basilosaur dubbed Pericetus Colossus that seems to be on par with the Blue Whale in size and mass. It though to have inhabited shallow water rather than deep ocean like the Blue Whale.

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