Month: August 2025
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Mazon Monday #281: 283,821 concretions, how do you measure the Mazon Creek?
This is Mazon Monday post #281. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. There’s quite a bit of Mazon Creek fossil research happening. Last week, we posted a paper that redescribed Palaeocampa (see Mazon Monday #280), some of our friends at the Field Museum had a paper about Sphenophyllales in June (see…
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Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They’re So Big
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about the discovery of unexpectedly large shoes. The shoes were excavated from the Roman fort called Magna in northern England. The footware dates to the time of Hadrian's Wall. More than 30 shoes of varying sizes have been found at the fort and about 25% of them are "oversized". The…
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Rare Fossil Suggests Some Dinosaurs May Have Sounded Like Birds and Shared Similar Vocal Anatomy
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about a new dinosaur that gives us clues on how dinosaurs sounded. Pulaosaurus qinglong lived about 163 million years ago in what is now Qinglong, a Chinese county in Hebei Province. The nearly complete animal was described in a paper in the journal PeerJ. The fossil includes its bony vocal…
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Fossil Friday #276: Lycopodites meekii
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #276. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! —————————————————– This week’s Fossil Friday is a…
