Mysteries of the diceratheriine rhinos
January 2nd, 2013 |
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This amazing fossil represents the diceratheriine rhino Subhyracodon occidentalis from the Late Eocene and Early and Middle Oligocene of the USA. Subhyracodon seems to have been ancestral to the better known Diceratherium*, a very long-lived diceratheriine that appeared in the Early Oligocene and persisted into the Middle Miocene. Diceratherium is well known for being one of [...]
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The Great Dinosaur Art Event of 2012
November 5th, 2012 |
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People have always wanted to know what extinct animals might have looked like when alive. Combine the science of anatomical and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction with the liberal amount of speculation involved in the imagining of animal soft tissues, behaviour and lifestyle, and you have the vibrant and ever popular field known as palaeoart (or paleoart). September [...]
Keep reading »Obscure fossil mammals of island South America: Thomashuxleya and the other isotemnids
July 21st, 2012 |
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I’ve often (or sometimes) said that there are – still, even after more than six years of operation – whole groups of tetrapods where I’ve barely scratched the surface, if that. The recent revisiting of borhyaenoids reminded me how much I love South American Cenozoic megafauna, and how frustrating it is that data on these [...]
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