SuperRaptor's Paleo Blog

(A picture of the animal in question by Dmitry Bogdanov. It doesn't belong to me!) Finally! A marine reptile gets some time in the spot...

But never mind all that golden eagle business. Look what I got! It's so beautiful. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs is Gregory S. ...

Golden eagles kill goats. For reals.

Ehehehe... Hey, look! It's Dryptosaurus !

Well, exams reared their ugly head, and I wasn't able to update much. Thankfully, it is now summer! And as such I have free time to kill...

Though most famous for its Triassic record, the coelophysids were a greatly successful group, surviving into the Early Jurassic across Nort...

Herrerasaurids are among the most primitive dinosaurs, and, indeed, are primitive enough to have caused debate in the paleontological commu...

Normally, in the spirit of the first day of April, I'd come up with something witty. But I'm rather tired today (and looking forward...

( Look, there's one now! Curse the little blighter! ) I've been out for a while (Disney World! Whoo!), and as such have not been ab...

If you couldn't tell by my user name, dromaeosaurs are my favorite among the dinosaurs. The raptors may not have been as big (or as scal...

So far, 2010 is turning out to be quite a good year for dinosaur discovery. Abydosaurus mcintoshi was described this week by Chure et al. f...

Just to clear a few things up with plurals in Latin (since in paleontology, the language is dealt with often). If it ends with -us, generall...

(Pictured: Eublepharis macularius. Not mine, though.) Good news, everyone! Within the next few weeks, I will be obtaining my very own squam...

A more esoteric choice on my part: Batrachotomus kupferzellensis . It is a prestosuchid rauisuchian from the Middle Triassic (Ladnian) of so...

(Pictured: The skull of the animal in question.) I know, right? Two blog posts in a day. Scandal. But hey, if I have the day off, why not? ...

Dinosaur science has come a long, long way since 1984. Evidence enough of this is a book by Dr. Michael Benton, published that year, which r...

You heard me. Phacops rana . This is an exciting moment for the blog, as this is the first species featured in a DinoBlag which I actually o...

(Picture: Which is the tiger? Which is the lion? Where should we draw the line?) Today, it's easy to tell species apart from one anothe...

One of the more recent developments in the classification of dinosaurs is the 2009 addition of the family Neovenatoridae. The neovenatorids...

A DinoBlag first: a whole family of dinosaurs. The Dicraeosauridae was a family of diplodocoid sauropods, related to diplodocids such as Dip...

(Pictured: Not Texacephale, but its relative Prenocephale) Texacephale langstoni ! This dinosaur was described yesterday from cranial remain...

It's 2010! A good new year to whoever may be reading this. Here's hoping that this new decade brings plenty of new dinosaurs into th...

Taxonomy, the study of naming life scientifically, is an immensely complicated and confusing science, easily confounding enough to baffle an...

Two DinoBlags in a day? Blasphemy! However, I felt that I should make at least one other update before I logged off. So to that effect, this...

The subject of our latest DinoBlag is an animal which is argued to be the largest mammalian land predator of all time, Megistotherium osteot...

I was just reading through some of my older articles, and realized that I'd promised some cryptozoology stuff on the blog. To that effec...

Didelphids, the family of marsupials of which the Virginia opossum ( Didelphis virginiana ) is the only living member, are the only marsupia...

Surprise, surprise! Recent studies show similarities between the mouth structures of small feathered dinosaurs, such as Sinornithosaurus an...

Introducing the brand new segment, DinoBlag which will be replacing the Critter of the segment. The first creature feature (hehe) is the fi...

I'm lazy when it comes to these things, really! Worry not, 3 or 4 fans. I'll get more updates onto the blog here soon.

I've decided to resume updating my blog, and the first new addition is this subject which has been on my mind for a while. I'm sure ...

After a lenghthy string of week-long events, computer issues, and general laziness, I have returned to update my paleo blog. Rejoice!

I paid a visit today to the COMFGJS (That is, Central Ohio Mineral, Fossil, Gem & Jewelry Show), and purchased several new fossils for m...

In keeping up with all the missing-link hubbub of recent days, I'd like to announce the discovery of the missing link between a man and ...

Scientists have recently taken a closer look at the mouths of Komodo dragons, and boy, were they surprised! As it turns out, the hypothesis ...

As it turns out, sauropod dinosaurs may not have had necks as stiff as recent studies have hypothesized. This has added fuel to the old theo...

Erm, well... okay. That might be a bit of a stretch in the title. But recent discoveries have uncovered the first Mesozoic fossils from my b...

http://dml.cmnh.org/2009May/msg00079.html As it turns out, aquatic snails may have used dino dung as shelter upon land. I'm not sure if ...

New evidence from rock strata in Utah and Wyoming suggests that some species of dinosaurs might have dwindled on for as many as 500,000 year...

Too much came out in one week. Curse my laziness. I'll have to cram all the new info into a few short posts, so bear with me as I attemp...

No, not the German criminal. Schinderhannes bartelsi may soon prove to be one of the more important fossil discoveries in arthropod science...

If you're wondering, 'Ida', whose skeleton is shown at the right, is a 47 million-year-old Darwinius masillae , a species of pri...

Why am I replacing Critter of the Day with this segment? I'm a slacker. The very first Critter of the Week is Deltadromeus agilis , a me...

Yangchuanosaurus shangyouensis is an oddly-named theropod with an equally odd historical taxonomy. Like many other large carnivores, it was ...

Today's creature seems at first to be so close to Tyrannosaurus , that some scientists have hypothesized that it may be rexy's direc...

Gigantoraptor erlianensis is one of the odder discoveries of recent years, both the largest oviraptorosaur (oviraptors) known to science, an...

Mapusaurus roseae was a large carcharodontosaurid (carnosaurs which include Carcharodontosaurus and Giganotosaurus ) which dates from the ...

A recent discovery in a Portuguese quarry has given us many new specimens of large trilobites, including the species Ogyginus forteyi and H...

Two pterosaurs in as many days? For shame, I know. I can't help it if these guys are really interesting. The spotlight critter today is ...

Gracing my page with its wonderfully odd crest today is Nyctosaurus , a pterosaur closely related to the more famous Pteranodon . Even thoug...

Scientists currently consider it very unlikely that Alamosaurus sanjuanensis will be host to a battle between Texan soldiers and the Mexic...

A strange name for a strange dinosaur - Nedoceratops hatcheri , formerly "Diceratops hatcheri" , was renamed in 2007 by Ukrainsky...

Today's featured critter: a little beastie called Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis from the Upper Cretaceous of Alabama. This tyrannos...

No, this dinosaur has never been known to raid Tokyo. No, it probably would not take an Oxygen Destroyer to kill. But that certainly is the...

Weird-looking guy here, huh? I'll say! Olorotitan arharensis is quite the odd hadrosaur (duckbilled dinosaur); discovered in the Amur r...

Thought I only had a dinosaur fetish? Don't think I'd forget our Cenozoic buddies, the extinct mammals. I love those guys! This one...

Today's daily critter: the mighty Acrocanthosaurus atokensis! This 40-foot carnivorous carnosaur (check up on the new definition - any ...

For you laymen out there who wonder what " Brontosaurus" would be brought back from, it's probably worth noting that, despite...

The world of paleontology is abuzz these couple of months over several discoveries from the rich fossil beds of China - three new genera of ...