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Forum Post how did ancient whales survive against the Megalodon?
I mean it sounds as if megalodon could have had a picnic on them!
Forum Post Ancient Atmosphere Giant Insects
Interesting point about the problem regarding insect spiracle respiration. They don't work very well on a large insect because the surface area to volume ratio shrinks very rapidly as size increa...
Blog Post The Amazing Love Life Of Ancient Wombats
If you're following paleontology's research of the fossils of ancient Wombats you may know that fossils of Wombats were found in various sizes. The variation between giants fossils as appear on ...
Blog Post Archaeopteryx: Ancient bird or dinosaur?
...nosaur. Basically, it was bird on the outside and dinosaur on the inside. New microscopic images of the ancient blood cells inside the bones of Archaeopteryx show surprisingly slow growth and matur...
Blog Post Pterosaurs: Predators of Ancient Skies
Pterosaurs, the mighty winged-lizards, soared ancient skies expertly hunting for prey. Because they evolved from reptiles prior to modern birds, it was once believed that pterosaurs were primitive, p...
Blog Post Fossil Plants Reveal Ancient Climate
...kanagan highlands, an area centred in the Interior of British Columbia, provide important clues to an ancient climate. While the area is referred to as the Okanagan, the term is used i...
Blog Post Elasmosaurs: Predators of our Ancient Seas
Photo Until recently, elasmosaurs had never before been found in British Columbia. Nor had any other aquatic plesiosaurs, though similar creatures had been found on the coast of California a...
Blog Post Australia's Ancient Lands: Gondwana
The dinosaurs of Australia disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous, as they did the world over. Their departure marked the end of the supercontinent of Gondwana. By the middle of the Eocene, some...
Blog Post Anomalocaridid: Marine Predator from Ancient Seas
Scientists from Sweden's Uppsala University have pieced together a bizarre marine predator who trolled the seas some 505-million years ago. Hurdia, an extinct species of anomalocaridid, had a giant h...
Forum Post odd impressions ID help sought
...t then I read Fossil Huntress's guess. I think she brings up a good thought. I haven't ruled out ancient animals. If she says ancient or modern mollusca or gastropod, then she might know mor...
Forum Post Did the Size of Dinosaurs Change over Time?
... It's true that when people get really old, young people think senior citizens are some type of ancient breed and treat them as they know nothing of the new world. This has been going on f...
Forum Post what was the first dinosaur fossil to be found in south amer...
...themselves at that point. Dinosaurs have been known of for thousands of years by humans, and I think even ancient romans studied them. Mostly for the shapes and minerals they contained though. Can y...
Forum Post what caused the extinction of the animals during the prehist...
Hi rickymouse,heres another one for you. The Ancient Aztecs used to worship a god called Quetzalcoatalas. He was a winged god and beared the resemblance to a winged serpent. I know what you are thi...
Forum Post some claws i have found , can anyone help
...osing as it was fossilizing. a seperation of 10 inches could make a world of difference, especially by an ancient river or by ancient pine trees. Exposure to the elements could make some look stripe...
Forum Post Mystery of Acanbaro Mexico
...t; was even coined in the eighteenth century. In fact, dinosaur bones have been recorded as far back as ancient China where they found "Dragon" bones (presumably dinosaur fossils) and gro...
Photo Comment Unknown- Leaky, TX
It looks kinda like pictures of vertibrae of ancient animals that I have seen.
Forum Post dinosaurs still live underwater!
...osaurs were land animals. The pliosaurs, mosasaurs, etc., of the Mesozoic are not dinosaurs - they were ancient marine reptiles and all lived in the surface layers of the oceans (they breathed air)...
Photo Comment Natural Or Man Made 2
you have a rock with a hole in it in your hand, isn't that enough evidence for you? The ancient people used special hard pointed rocks as drills, not diamond drill bits on Makita cordless drills. ...
Blog Comment Mythical Moroccan Ogre: Extinct Proboscidean Elephant
...hoto uploader to take a copy off my computer. Here is a link to an image. Photo: http://www.nrru.ac.th/web/ancient/elephant/images/ele011.jpg Hope that helps!...
Forum Post Were there
...ct me if I'm wrong). It is different from the study of dinosaurs, but both the study of dinosaurs and ancient sea life are branches of paleontology. So, tell your five-year-old that ancient sea l...
Photo Comment Unnamed Picture
The large one on the left seems to resemble a stromatolite (ancient algae) from pics I`ve seen of them. Anyone have any experience with them?
Forum Post Whats your favorite Dinosaur?
The Plesiosaurus is one of my favorites too. But they are technicly not dinosaurs. they are ancient marine reptiles.
Photo Comment Lorie Collection 1 010-1.jpg
...w I focus on it and what I look at gives me many different ideas, like it also looks like maybe part of an ancient eagle carving too. ...
Photo Comment Puke?
... like it has tiny jaw with teeth in dark spot on hump on left? ate something small? egg? nothing but rock? ancient geopet? ...
Photo Comment Unnamed Picture
The megalodon was a giant shark that prowled the ancient seas about 15 to 1.6 million years ago.They were over 50 feet and weighed as much as 4 elephants.This picture shows the jaws and a model of wha...
Forum Post Problem on post.
Hmmm. It must be the spirit of the ancient indian or something! Maybe I should return the stones
Forum Post Fossil Identification: Organisms? Worms? Best guesses?
...D from photographs, to be sure. My best guess is that it could be a trace fossil. Perhaps a burrow from an ancient organism. Good Luck!...
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