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Wednesday, 24 February 2016

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Drake Passage 

polar soils blog [2016-02-24 23:38:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (672 visits) info

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After about a day of calm sailing out of the Strait of Magellan, we entered the Drake Passage. Boy, has it been quite a ride! Winds have averaged about 30-40 knots (roughly 35-45 mph), with frequent gusts up to 50 knots! Waves have been around 10 feet. So, while it certainly could be worse, it’s been quite a trip! It takes a lot of effort to walk anywhere on the boat, and anything not secured has been flying around! Last night Uffe flew right out of the chair he was sitting in, and I gave up [...]

Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegan, a Mosasaur with Binocular Vision 

Palaeoblog [2015-12-10 10:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (194 visits) info

 Cretaceous; JP
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The Late Cretaceous mosasaur, Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans (a phosphorus lizard from an elegant creek), is believed to have hunted on glowing fish and squids at night. Phosphorosaurus is relatively small, about 3 meters, or 10 feet long. This unique discovery in a creek in the town of Mukawa in northern Japan reveals that they were able to colonize throughout the northern hemisphere. It

Top 4 Most Annoyingly-popular Dino Hypotheses 

ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [2014-07-28 00:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (147 visits) info

 NZ,US,TR,IN
This post was inspired by the Nostalgia Critic's "Top 10 Films Doug Hates But Everyone Else Loves" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XG9ZQyExe4 ). It's nothing formal, just a list of what I (as a non-expert dino fan) think are the most annoyingly-popular (I.e. More popular than they should be, given the evidence) dino hypotheses in recent years (I.e. Post-2000) & why. Even still, I hope that at least some of you will get something out of it. As for why "Top 4", to quote Santa Claus ( [...]

Did Metoposaurus Aestivate in the Carnian Triassic of Poland? 

The Dragon’s Tales [2013-09-03 19:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (156 visits) info

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(image source) Krasiejów, Poland was a vastly different place 230 million years ago during the Triassic Period. It was part of a giant continent called Pangea, had a warm climate throughout the year, and was populated by giant amphibians that weighed half a ton and were 10 feet long. Metoposaurus diagnosticus was one of these giant amphibians, and its environment had only two

Field season in full swing 

RMDRC paleo lab [2013-07-25 17:21:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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Sorry for the lack of updates lately. We've been in South Dakota and Montana working the Hell Creek and Judith River Formations respectively.Jacob for scale before we open a Triceratops siteSouth Dakota had seen its fair share of rain, where we got rained out more in two weeks there than in my entire previous decade of Hell Creek digging combined. We pulled a few Triceratops bones and finished evaluating a few sites before moving on north.Nanotyrannus teeth collected from a single lag depositIn [...]

Lake Powell Houseboating Trip - Part 1 

Earthly Musings [2013-03-17 01:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (337 visits) info

 Jurassic,Triassic
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I recently got the opportunity to houseboat on Lake Powell with wife Helen, photographer Gary Ladd, and some other friends both new and old. While many people poo-poo the reservoir as devoid of anything natural, we found many places where the scenery was spectacular and the geology was interesting. I took a lot of photo's so this this is the first of three parts about this 7 day adventure!Reflections from the marina where we started our tripThe Antelope Cut is closed due to low levels in the [...]

Amazing Angkor Wat 

Earthly Musings [2013-02-17 17:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
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There are ruins and then there are ruins. Angkor Wat in northern Cambodia has to be one of the most amazing ruin sites in all the world. It's tremendous size and fine detail all work to create a sense of awe about the prehistoric world. Built in the 12th century, like so many of our planet's other fantastic sites, Angkor Wat was completed in only 37 years. from 1113 to 1150 AD.The entire site is surrounded by a huge square moat that is about 100 meters wideView from the outside of the east [...]

Invasive Boa Constrictors in Puerto Rico 

Geology.com News [2012-12-04 12:04:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
“Non-native boa constrictors, which can exceed 10 feet and 75 pounds, have established a breeding population in Puerto Rico, one that appears to be spreading. [...] The new population appears to be spreading from its likely point of origin in the western part of the island around the city of Mayagüez. In the last year

How to eat a Triceratops 

Wry Heat [2012-10-29 15:47:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (37 visits) info

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First, you tear off its head. The Triceratops was a herbivorous dinosaur that was about 30 feet long, 10 feet high that weighed 6- to 12 tons. Its head sported a long bony shield which served to protect its neck. It inhabited marshes and forests of western North American during the Cretaceous period. Triceratops was

Italian Government Approves Drilling Into Campi Flegrei 

Volcano Science And News Blog [2012-05-24 23:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (65 visits) info
The Italian government has reversed a previous decision to disallow drilling into the Campi Flegrei supervolcanic region after concerns about the potential for increased seismicity and triggering of a super eruption were assuaged. The government had previously banned the project, which aims to drill some 4km below the earth's surface in the caldera to gain more knowledge about the composition of the massive magma chamber. Concerns were raised that drilling could cause an eruption, or dramatic [...]

Daspletosaurus prep update: now with arms 

RMDRC paleo lab [2012-01-27 20:40:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
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Hip block. Yowza.I know I've spent a lot of my previous blog posts focusing on the Platecarpus skull we were getting ready to send off witht he travelling circus to Tucson. Well, they're out the door and I can swing my attention back to our Daspletosaurus "Pete III".Need some clawsPreparation  is about 98% finished, with a few straggler parts and the pelvis block to finish up. We've also begun the restoration of some of the bones, partly for increased stability and partly because they're [...]

Global Warming and Coastal Erosion – Alaska Case Study 

Geology.com News [2012-01-24 04:30:04]  recommend  recommend this post  (33 visits) info
” The storm we watched eroded 10 feet of forest floor. Beneath the tree roots, we could see the remains of beaches formed only a few decades ago, when a surplus of sand was still flowing from the glacier.” Quoted from the case study. After a storm, the signs of rapid coastal erosion are especially

Back to the Antarctic - the 100th (and 75th) Anniversaries of the First Person to Reach the South Pole 

Earthly Musings [2011-12-11 20:12:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (403 visits) info
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Roald Amundsen and four others from Norway had been trekking across the Antarctic continent by sled and dog team for 54 days when they finally arrived at 90° south on December 14, 1911. Amundsen and his team were thus the first people to ever stand at the very bottom of the Earth! Wednesday marks the 100th anniversary of this exploration milestone and in honor of it, I am sharing some of my photographs from my stint at the South Pole Station in December/January, 1986, when the 75th Anniversary [...]

Megalodon: The Ultimate Shark 

BEYONDbones [2011-08-04 16:41:17]  recommend  recommend this post  (42 visits) info
This week at the Museum, we are putting the finishing touches on a reconstruction of the jaws of the Megalodon, the largest shark the world has ever known. Our reconstruction, which is approximately 10 feet tall and 11 feet wide, would have fit comfortably in a 60 foot shark that weighed in the range of

GeoJeopardy! Friday #56 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [2011-07-22 19:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (27 visits) info
Time for GeoJeopardy! Fridays, because I am back in the US of A.- Prehistoric Times -The Megaloceros was the largest one of these mammals that ever lived; it was over 10 feet tall & had 11-foot antlers ------------------------------------------------------------------Cultivation of this 3-letter tree fruit may have started in the Middle East over 10,000 years ago-----------------------------------------------------------------Anthropologists say this was the first of the [...]

Building a Xiphactinus: ground to mount 

RMDRC paleo lab [2011-07-19 19:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (32 visits) info
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Initial excavation of RMDRC 10-025 in Lane Co., KansasDuring the 2010 field season, we managed to find and collect part or most of 9 Xiphactinus audax specimens. But what do you do with all of those mainly incomplete fish? In the case with RMDRC 10-025, we decided to prepare and restore the skeleton in a panel mount display. Two factors helped us decide on working with this specimen: It was relatively complete except for the skull, which had weathered out in the float, and it looked to be a [...]
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