Thursday, 18 August 2016

The Difference Between...Anapsids, Synapsids, Diapsids and Euryapsids

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Simplified skull diagrams of anapsid, synapsid, diapsid and euryapsid. Image taken from Benton 2005 You will come across various referen...
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Wednesday, 17 August 2016

Palaeoart: Island Dwarfism

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I have chosen this artwork by Mark Witton because of the interesting ecology that lies behind it. This artwork shows us the giraffe s...

Palaeoart: Mating Display

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Because I was so impressed with the artwork I found last night by Emily Willoughby I decided to do another post on her work, this time, as w...
Tuesday, 16 August 2016

The Big Five Mass Extinctions

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Mounted Brachiosaurus  skeleton at the Naturkunde Museum in Berlin, Germany. The dinosaurs were the major casualties of the K/T Extinctio...
Monday, 15 August 2016

Palaeoart: Dakotaraptor Hunt

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Seeing as I haven't got as much done today as I would have liked I found a nice piece of artwork to have a look at. This one comes from ...

The Devonian Period

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An artist's impression of the Devonian landscape. Image credit: Karen Carr The Devonian period began 416 Ma and came to a close arou...

Palaeoart: Super Croc Ambush Part 2

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Further to what I said in the previous post about crocodiles generally being subdued by the dinosaurs. In North America at the end of the ...

Paleoart: Super Croc Ambush

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Raul Martin is a well known paleoartist, creating some true masterpieces over the years, I've chosen this one because it shows two key c...
Sunday, 14 August 2016

The Difference Between...Bivalves and Brachiopods

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Diagram of Bivalve morphology. Image credit: keyword-suggestions.com This is a group of fossils that I struggled to get to grips with in...
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The Silurian Period

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The Silurian period stretches from 443.4 to 419.2 Ma, it is a relatively short period. Map of the Palaeo continents during the middle Sil...

Palaeoart: North Africa in the Cretaceous

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Today, I have chosen artwork from Mohamad Haghani. A depiction of North Africa in the late Cretaceous featuring two of the world's larg...
Saturday, 13 August 2016

The Difference Between...Rugose, Tabulate and Scleractinian corals

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This is going to be a series of posts that look at fossils that are either difficult to Rugose coral. Image credit: paleo.cortland.edu ...
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The Ordovician Period

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The Ordovician is the second geological time period of the Palaeozoic era, spanning from 485.4 to 443.4 Ma. The Ordovician is named after th...

Palaeoart: Brachylophosaurus in the river

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I wanted to highlight this piece of artwork by Julius C. Csotonyl because of its palaeontological importance and the reason for its creation...

My Collection #1

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So in this feature I want to share the fossils and rock that I have in my collection, give you a little information about each piece. Hope y...