Category: Rag-on-Bones Re-Posts/PalaeoNews Webisodes
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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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"Three-eyed" Triops cancriformis colonies in Scotland. – [Retrospective Post]
Researchers from Glasgow University have discovered colonies of the small crustacean Triops cancriformis in mud from around the scottish nature reserve at Caerlaverock, Scotland.
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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?
Benjamin David Brooks 