Category: Palaeontology
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Convergent Mososaur/Ichthyosaur evolution. – [Retrospective Post]
A research team from Sweeden, Canada and the US have recently published a paper in the PLoS one journal which looks set to redefine the way vertebrate palaeontologists look at a whole group of mesosoic marine reptiles.
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Of beginnings and biases
A summary of how the project is coming along (not very far at the moment) and some of the issues, biases and conundrums in approach that have so far been identified.
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Torosaurus genus to be reclassified Triceratops. – [Retrospective Post]
A recent scientific paper argues that two genuses of ceratopsian dinosaur (Torosaurus and Triceratops) – which have been separate entities for over a century – are in fact the juvenile and adult growth stages of the same taxon – but why?
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Volunteering at the Natural History Museum
In todays post I talk about the last week of volunteering at the Natural History Museum Palaeontology Department, and the sheer awesomeness of their collections.
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Lyme Regis’ Urban Palaeontology 2
One month ago I posted Lyme Regis’ Palaeontology 1, in which I talked about two small parts of the Lyme Regis pumping station and waterworks (locations 1 and 2 on the map below) and promised to finish the job with a second post within a fortnight or so… I failed to do so and as such I apologise,…
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Lyme Regis’ Urban Palaeontology 1
The first of two…possibly three… posts on some of the urban geology of my home town of Lyme Regis!
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Urban Geology… wait wha?
A little post (with Pictures!) about looking for the geological gems in your home-town… have a go; it’s fantastic fun!
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Early Morning Geologising…
Some Late night… er… early morning Geological blogging with links to interesting stuff… BP Oil Disasters, Fossil soft squidgey bits and Science Museum Cowardice!
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Scientific consensus reached on End-Mesozoic Mass Extinction
So Today I blog about a recent conference and a paper by 41 scientists about the KT Extinction mechanism, and a Google FAIL! Enjoy…
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Popping in from the web-wilderness…
So i’ve been away from the blog for a couple of weeks, and my website for much longer… it’s quite depressing to note that after all the effort that went into http://www.benjamindbrooks.co.uk I still cannot find the time to maintain it as I would like to. Anywho I thought I would post a little note…
Benjamin David Brooks 