Bob's Dinosaurs Blog March 2008 Archive

Now this is why young folks get into paleontology. Two researchers at the University of Alberta have shown, via computer simulations, that adolescent pachycephalosaurs could lower their heads and butt ... Read More

Recently, About.com's guide to Charlotte asked her five-year-old daughter to write down 20 facts about dinosaurs. Here's what she came up with, spelling intact (with some explication from mom): 1. Dinaosars ... Read More

What is it with Triceratops lately? First Christie's announces that it's going to auction off an entire Triceratops skeleton, then a suspicious package is found on a bus in Peru ... Read More

Considering Peru's ongoing semi-revolution and its historical cash crop, police in Arequipa might have expected a strange, heavy package stashed in the cargo hold of a bus to contain either ... Read More

For years, geologists have speculated that volcanic activity may have contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago--but that the effect of these eruptions was secondary to ... Read More

Showing how long it can take from the discovery of a fossil to its description and classification, researchers in Canada have announced that the near-complete remains of a plesiosaur (aquatic ... Read More

What do paleontologists do when they're not digging up 100-million-year-old dinosaurs? Well, they kill time by unearthing 10-million-year-old sheep, as witness the recent discovery of Oreodont teeth in New Mexico. No, ... Read More

Before you bid on that million-dollar Triceratops skeleton I blogged about a few days ago, you may want to consult your financial planner and consider another possibility: buying a reconstructed ... Read More

By the time you read this, the Dinosaurs A-Z section of this site should contain close to 100 profiles--not just of dinosaurs, but also of aquatic and avian reptiles. Each ... Read More

The title says it all. For those of you who've been out of the Hollywood loop, the first two Ice Age movies (middling-to-okay CGI timewasters for kids) were set in ... Read More

So for the last few weeks, I've been trying to figure out why so many people have been reading my profile of Liopleurodon. Don't get me wrong--Liopleurodon is a fine ... Read More

Last summer, a geology class from Mesalands Community College in New Mexico made an unusual fossil find--a complete ilium, one of the three bones constituting a dinosaur hip. Now, it ... Read More

There are only a handful of great dinosaur movies, but they're vastly outnumbered by cheap, badly written, tacky-FX multiplex stinkbombs (not to mention endlessly twee children's fare like the Land ... Read More

Next month, Christie's will be auctioning off one of the few near-complete Triceratops skeletons in private hands--a two-ton behemoth 25 feet long, with a whopping 70 percent of its original ... Read More

It appeared on the scene long after the pterosaurs (flying reptiles) went extinct--some 30 million years later, to be exact--but an ancient bat recently discovered in Egypt show how eerily ... Read More

According to an article in The New York Times, officials in Argentina are looking to cash in on the country's unusually rich dinosaur heritage. Argentina has been the site of ... Read More

One of the weirdest flying reptiles of the Jurassic era, Pterodaustro was distinguished by its thousand or so bristle-like teeth, which it used to filter plankton from water (much in ... Read More

Paleontologists in Norway have discovered the biggest pliosaur yet, a 50-foot-long behemoth that makes Kronosaurus look like a goldfish by comparison. Nicknamed "The Monster," this huge aquatic reptile (which was ... Read More