Vertebrate Paleontology Blog

Since I graduated, I did not have the university resources, nor the time to keep my blog going. I spent two years working as a consultant, b...

My previous server was retired, so I am keeping my blog going on blogspot. Since the summer is upon me. I should have updates in the near fu...

Just like Willie Nelson's cowboy song, the life of a paleontologist is a rough one, and the pursuit of earning an income is being pitche...

I pity the fool who does not realize the incredible record of past life that exists on this planet of ours. Or views that vast record as com...

New and exciting discoveries occurred in spurts and jumps as the new year begin, and with little time to report on these discoveries, I was ...

The origin of whales has been a hot and intense field of study for the last several years, when it became known that whales fall within the ...

Think back to those old Ray Harryhausen stop motion animation of dinosaurs roaming the world. One classic scene that you might recall is whe...

Despite creationist's claims, paleontologists love gaps in the fossil record. To the paleontologist, gaps represent mysteries yet to be ...

Jere H. Lipps wrote a wonderful editorial in the latest issue of Palaeontologia Electronica on museum exhibits. Dr. Lipps laments the loss ...

Spent last several weeks teaching full time and working out on the Utah/Colorado border helping a fellow student collect fossils and rocks, ...

Thought I post some pictures of my daughter collecting fossils a few weeks ago. I think she is addicted now, as everywhere she is on the loo...

A massively large Oviraptorosaurian dinosaur described by Dr. Xing Xu and colleagues has been found in Inner Mongolia in the Senonian Iren D...

In the March 29th issue of Nature, molecular biologists look at mammalian diversity through time using modern species lineages and molecular...

Homoplasy and heterochrony are two words you are likely not to encounter often, but a new primitive mammal named Yanoconodon allini nicely ...

The origin of tetrapods and the accompanying changes from swimming to walking require numerous morphological and biological changes. However...

Beavers belong to a large diverse group of mammals called the Rodents. Unlike the other members Rodents (mice and rats), beavers are rather ...

The idiosyncratic billionaire Richard Branson has offered a $25 million dollar prize for "any invention that will remove "signific...

The Western Australian Museum has posted some amazing pictures on the Nature News Website of the marsupial lion Thylacoleo carniflex from...

Paleontologists have that strange ability to see things that others don't or can't see. Nowhere is this case best illustrating in ma...

Volaticotherium antiquus is no ordinary beast. It is over 150 million years old and was the first mammal to glide over the landscape using ...