Tag: BBC
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Lost Mary Anning book back in UK after chance find
The BBC has a story about the recovery of a historical book connected to Mary Anning. Mary was a fossil collector back in the early 1800s. She made some critical discoveries including a complete plesiosaur, a 4-foot long ichthyosaur skull, and holotype specimen of Dimorphodon macronyx. Unfortunately, she didn’t receive much recognition during her lifetime.…
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BBC: Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
The BBC has the fascinating story of the discovery of a truly massive pliosaur. A fossil collector, searching the cliffs of Dorset, England, found the tip of the snout of huge pliosaur skull last year. The animal, a pliosaur, lived anount 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period. The full skull, recovered from the…
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Giants of the Jurassic seas were twice the size of a killer whale, says study
Phys.org has a story about the size of the large marine reptiles that swam the seas of the Jurassic Period. Just how big was Liopleurodon, a large pliosaur from that time? The BBC’s “Walking with Dinosaurs” TV documentary series showed it as 25-meters-long, which was deemed vastly overestimated. New evidence, from the rediscovery of a…
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BBC: The 120-year search for the purpose of T. rex’s arms
The BBC has a story about that looks into how Tyrannosaurus rex used it’s small arms. T. rex and it’s close relatives had notoriously small arms for their size. Since its discovery in 1902 by Barnum Brown, paleontologists have wondered how they used their puny arms. The end of the season was approaching rapidly –…
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BBC: America colonization ‘cooled Earth’s climate’
The BBC has a post about the effect of the colonization of America on the environment. A study by scientists from the University College London, UK claim that the colonization at the end of the 15th century killed so many native Americans, it disturbed Earth’s climate. The paper by Alexander Koch and colleagues was…
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Neanderthal Fossil From North Sea
From BBC via Geology.com: Part of a Neanderthal man’s skull has been dredged up from the North Sea, in the first confirmed find of its kind. …. Scientists in Leiden, in the Netherlands, have unveiled the specimen – a fragment from the front of a skull belonging to a young adult male. Analysis of chemical…
