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T. rex Down!
Published on 2010-05-06 09:17:00
It can be worthwhile revisiting what perhaps have become rather over-familiar scenes portraying dinosaur life. One of these is the much-pictured confrontation between a Tyrannosaurus rex and the armoured ankylosaur Euoplocephalus (my painting below). Just how likely would such an encounter have been? And if so, then what would have been the probable outcome?If we place the two dinosaurs alongside each other (my painting below, with the skeletons giving a human scale), then one thing is clear str
The Stones on Tour
Published on 2010-03-10 07:24:00
It must have been one of the most dinosaur-intense environments in the world. During the last several million years of the Cretaceous, a shallow sea divided the eastern and western sides of the North American continent, with the western side stretching from the ice-free North Pole - then centered on land that is now northwest Alaska - all the way down to present-day Central America.On the eastern side, Quebec's Manicouagan impact crater and the Appalachian mountain chain were already-ancient fea
Hoots, Honks and Bellows
Published on 2010-02-05 12:45:00
Some eight years ago I remember writing that, although the colors given to dinosaurs in artists' reconstructions are conjectural, it could only be a matter of time before some new imaging technology might provide us with real evidence of actual colors in their fossils. Well, last month's issue of *Nature contained news of exactly that. The discovery of cells known as melanosomes in the preserved fossil feathers of the dinosaur Sinosauropteryx indicated that the tail of this animal was a lemur-li
