Tag: dinosaur
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Giant Dinosaurs Were Riddled With a Devastating Disease, Fossils Show
Science Alert has a piece about dinosaurs… sauropods might not have been all that healthy. The animals that lived in what is now Brazil, might have suffered from bone infections caused by bacterium, fungus, virus, or parasite.
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From Warehouse to Stardom!
From Warehouse to Stardom!by Katherine Howard and Jim BiglerMany years ago, Rusty Grenier, a member of ESCONI, built a Styracosaurus sculpture with his father. After his father died, Rusty donated the sculpture to ESCONI. It was stored at the ESCONI warehouse with care…its future undecided. In March 2025, Katherine Howard and Jim Bigler, both beaming…
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Scientists Discover ‘Goblin Prince’ That Roamed With Dinosaurs
Science Alert has a story about the redicovery of a key fossil in the back of a museum drawer. Discovered around 2006, this new species, Bolg amondol, is a fossil gila monster from Utah. It dates to the late Cretaceous. The name translates to “mound-headed goblin prince” in J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Elvish language. Hank Woolley, paleontologist at…
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PBS Terra: When Dinosaurs Conquered the Arctic
PBS Terra has a new episode on Youtube. This one is about the epic migrations of herds of Pachyrhinosaurus and Edmontosaurus to Alaska during Cretaceous summers. Very few dinosaurs made it as far North as the Arctic Circle. But two of those – Pachyrhinosaurus and Edmontosaurus – undertook an epic migration every year to reach…
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The Dinosaur Database
The Dinosaur Database looks to be an interesting resourrce for all things dinosaur! Dinosaurs are categorized by region/continent and time period. A great place for dinosaur fans of all ages! Welcome to the internet’s largest dinosaur database. Check out a random dinosaur, search for one below, or look at our interactive globe of ancient Earth! Whether you are a kid,…
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2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #12: Replica of SUE’s Tooth
This is the preview post #12 for the 2025 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2025 will be held on March 15th and 16th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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New Duck-Billed Dinosaur Unearthed in China
SciNews has a story about the discovery of a new dinosaur in China. The unnamed animal lived between 70 and 67 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period, in what is now the Sanshui Basin in the northwestern part of the Pearl River Delta in South China. It represents the first lambeosaurine known from…
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ESCONI Field Trip to the Lab of Dr. Paul Sereno at the University of Chicago, Saturday, April 12, 2025
There will be a field trip for ESCONI members on Saturday, April 12, 2025, to the lab of Dr. Paul Sereno at the University of Chicago. We will be given a tour by Dr. Sereno of his lab and all the exciting projects he is working on. The tour begins at 2PM and will last…
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Dinosaur For Sale At the ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show!
We will have a wooden styracosaur for sale at the ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show March 15th and 16th. Come check it out! It can be yours!
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T. rex’s Distant Relative Lived in Thailand 145 Million Years Ago
Isolated teeth of basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Phu Noi locality, Thailand. Image credit: Chowchuvech et al. SciNews has a story about basal tyrannosaurs in Thailand durng the late Jurassic Period. Three isolated tyrannosaur teeth have been found in the Phu Noi locality, Kham Muang district, Kalasin province, northeastern Thailand. While other dinosaurs are known from…
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Brazilian researchers discover dinosaur fossil after heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Phys.org brings news of the discovery of what may be one of the most ancient dinosaurs. The specimen was found near a reservoir in the municipality of Sao Joao do Polesine in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after heavy rains in May 2024. The bones are thought to…
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Amazing Discovery: Fossil Collector Unearths the Most Complete Dinosaur in the UK Since 1923
An artist’s impression of the dinosaur. Credit: John Sibbick SciTechDaily has a story about a new dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight. The animal, Comptonatus chasei, lived about 125 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. It was found by fossil collector Nick Chase and named for him. Nick has tragically died of cancer. The…
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Lokiceratops, a Horned Dinosaur, May Be a New Species
An artist’s reconstruction of Lokiceratops rangiformis, a new species of ceratopsian recovered from the badlands of northern Montana.Credit…Sergey Krasovskiy for the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark The New York Times has an article about the discovery of a fossil skull that might represent a new species of ceratopsian dinosaur. Lokiceratops rangiformis, lived about 78…
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Paleontologists Discover New Bird-Like Dinosaur in Argentina
Life reconstruction of Diuqin lechiguanae. Image credit: Porfiri et al., doi: 10.1186/s12862-024-02247-w. SciNews has a story about the discovery of a bird-like dinosaur in Argentina. Its name is Diuqin lechiguanae and it lived about between 86 and 84 million years ago. It belongs to the subfamily Unenlagiine, which is a family of theropods in Dromaeosauridae. The animal…
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Family Discovers Rare T. Rex Fossil in North Dakota
The site where a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was found in North Dakota.Credit…Denver Museum of Science and Nature The New York Times has a story about the discovery of a Tyrannosaurs rex skeleton. The fossil was found in the summer of 2022 by two boys hiking with their father and a cousin. They saw bones poking…
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Throwback Thursday #203: They Crawled Out of the Swamps to Save the Mets
This is Throwback Thursday #202. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please sent them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! To commemorate the start of Major League Baseball’s Spring Training, we are taking a look at a fun little…
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Throwback Thursday #186: Looking Back At ESCONI for November 2023
This is Throwback Thursday #186. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! 25 Years Ago – November 1998 50 Years Ago – November 1973 70 Years Ago – November 1953…
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2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show – Preview #24!
This is the preview post #24 for the 2023 ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show Live Auction. The ESCONI Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show for 2023 will be held on March 18th and 19th at the DuPage Fairgrounds in Wheaton, IL, which is the same location as last year. All details can be found here.…
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Throwback Thursday #84: The Dinosaur
This is Throwback Thursday #84. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! We have a poem called “The Dinosaur” this week. It comes from the Chicago Tribune’s “Line ‘O Type…
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Casper College: The Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: North America’s Most Complete Early Cretaceous Record – May 4th, 2021
Casper College has been holding a Spring Lecture Series called “Cretaceous Dinosaurs”. The last in the series will be given by James Kirkland, State Paleontologist with the Utah Geologic Survey. His talk is titled “The Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: North America’s Most Complete Early Cretaceous Record“. It will be held via Zoom at 7:00 MDT,…
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‘Remarkable’ fossil features an insect trapped in amber, stuck to a dinosaur jaw
Science has a post about a special fossil insect. The ‘remarkable’ fossil consists of sap-sucking aphids trapped in amber and stuck to the jawbone of a duck-billed dinosaur. It was discovered in 2010 in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. All the detail are in a paper publish in the journal Science. The “remarkable” two-for-one…
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Dinosaur Event in Rosemont, IL
Don’t know much about this event – …. but it has been appearing in advertisement on the television – Discover the Dinosaurs, Jan 18-20. Looks like it might be interesting for younger children?
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3-D Printing of Dinosaur Bones
Via ABC News (Feb 22) … For all the digging of dinosaur fossils, all the magnificent reconstructions in museums and all the research that has been devoted to them, the great beasts remain mostly a mystery to us, and paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara of Drexel University in Philadelphia says our ways of studying them have not…
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Dinosaur Copyright Suit Settled
Via ArgusLeader: BILLINGS, MONT. — The question of whether renderings of ancient dinosaurs can be copyright-protected as original “art” remains unresolved after a settlement was reached in a federal lawsuit in Montana over bone castings from three well-known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens. Because of the settlement, a hearing scheduled for today that would have struck at…
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Torosaurus Discussion in MSM
Interesting letter written for NYTimes in response to article “Triceratops’ Quiet Cousin, the Torosaurus, Gains New Legitimacy” (March 6) … The study by Nicholas Longrich and Daniel Fields falls short because cranial fusion cannot be confirmed by simple observation. High-resolution computer tomography and comparative cranial histology are required. Dr. Longrich and Mr. Field leave out skulls…
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Events for Weekend 1/28 – 1/30, 2011
Friday, 1/28 ESCONI Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Anytime this weekend: Paleoart Exhibit, Lake County Discovery Museum Gold, Field Museum Hatching the Past: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies
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Color of a Dinosaur
Via National Geographic: …In a report released online today by the journal Nature, an international team of paleontologists and experts in scanning electron micrography infer that this dinosaur had reddish orange feathers running along its back and a striped tail….
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Burpee Museum in News
From today’s Science News: …researchers from Northern Illinois University and the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford report that adolescent tyrannosaurs got into some serious scraps with their peers…
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Crowdsourcing Science
I’m fascinated by crowd sourcing in technology and science.The most well-known example of crowd sourcing is Wikipedia, which defines crowd sourcing as: … the act of taking tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to a group (crowd) of people or community in the form of an open call.For example, the…
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Missing Link Found in China
Via PhysOrg: … An international group of researchers from the University of Leicester (UK), and the Geological Institute, Beijing (China) have identified a new type of flying reptile – providing the first clear evidence of an unusual and controversial type of evolution. Pterosaurs, flying reptiles, also known as pterodactyls, dominated the skies in the Mesozoic…
