Dr. BC's Hindsight

Fossil Crates presents a Virtual Summer Camp on dinosaurs! - Fossil Crates

Fossil Crates presents a Virtual Summer Camp on...

Noble Fossil Fans,      This June, Fossil Crates has teamed up with the Arizona Museum of Natural History to present a totally unique Dinosaur Virtual Summer Camp experience, led...

Fossil Crates presents a Virtual Summer Camp on...

Noble Fossil Fans,      This June, Fossil Crates has teamed up with the Arizona Museum of Natural History to present a totally unique Dinosaur Virtual Summer Camp experience, led...

International Dinosaur Day 2021 - Fossil Crates

International Dinosaur Day 2021

Noble Fossil Fans! International Dinosaur Day 2021 is upon us.  What is it?  Aside from a time for the world to come together for a day and celebrate all that...

International Dinosaur Day 2021

Noble Fossil Fans! International Dinosaur Day 2021 is upon us.  What is it?  Aside from a time for the world to come together for a day and celebrate all that...

Measuring specimens - the start of a study comparing estimated measurements versus actual measurements - Fossil Crates

Measuring specimens - the start of a study comp...

Aiden Rouse, an independent researcher from Central Florida, conducted a series of observation-based measurements on Galeamopus pabsti (SMA0011) mounted at the Cincinnati Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The specimen being...

Measuring specimens - the start of a study comp...

Aiden Rouse, an independent researcher from Central Florida, conducted a series of observation-based measurements on Galeamopus pabsti (SMA0011) mounted at the Cincinnati Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The specimen being...

Theories for Behavior in Deinonychosaurs and the Evolution of Avian Monogamy by Taylor Oswald, Brigham Young University Paleontologist - Fossil Crates

Theories for Behavior in Deinonychosaurs and th...

Taylor Oswald, paleontologist at Brigham Young University, sent me this thought-provoking paper on dromaeosaurid hunting practices and the origin of avian monogamy.  I am linking to a PDF as it...

Theories for Behavior in Deinonychosaurs and th...

Taylor Oswald, paleontologist at Brigham Young University, sent me this thought-provoking paper on dromaeosaurid hunting practices and the origin of avian monogamy.  I am linking to a PDF as it...

Hindsight with Dr. BC - January 2021 - Fossil Crates

Hindsight with Dr. BC - January 2021

Welcome to our first edition of Hindsight! Dr. BC blesses us with 3 takes on the latest paleontological finds, new looks on old specimens, and other thoughts from the depths of his paleo-obsessed brain!

Hindsight with Dr. BC - January 2021

Welcome to our first edition of Hindsight! Dr. BC blesses us with 3 takes on the latest paleontological finds, new looks on old specimens, and other thoughts from the depths of his paleo-obsessed brain!

Birds are dinosaurs and the Seriema is about as close as one gets to a Velociraptor today! - Fossil Crates

Birds are dinosaurs and the Seriema is about as...

  The Red-legged Seriema (Cariama cristata) is the closest living bird I can think of to a dromaeosaur foot-claw-wise. The Wildlife World Zoo(thanks Bree for letting us interact with Ellie...

Birds are dinosaurs and the Seriema is about as...

  The Red-legged Seriema (Cariama cristata) is the closest living bird I can think of to a dromaeosaur foot-claw-wise. The Wildlife World Zoo(thanks Bree for letting us interact with Ellie...

  • Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis - Fossil Crates

    Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Majungasaurus   Majungasaurus, "Mahajunga lizard," lived in Madagascar at the end of the dinosaurs' reign, from ~70 mya right up to the very end 66 mya.   Like most early-named dinosaurs,...

    Majungasaurus, dinosaur with an identify crisis

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Majungasaurus   Majungasaurus, "Mahajunga lizard," lived in Madagascar at the end of the dinosaurs' reign, from ~70 mya right up to the very end 66 mya.   Like most early-named dinosaurs,...

  • Anz-who?  Anzu, that's who! - Fossil Crates

    Anz-who? Anzu, that's who!

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Anzu wyliei is the largest and most complete North American oviraptorosaur thus far discovered, measuring 11’ long and around 600 lbs.  Its massive size dwarfs its 6’ long North American relatives, Chirostenotes and...

    Anz-who? Anzu, that's who!

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Anzu wyliei is the largest and most complete North American oviraptorosaur thus far discovered, measuring 11’ long and around 600 lbs.  Its massive size dwarfs its 6’ long North American relatives, Chirostenotes and...

  • Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": Were the ribbons real? - Fossil Crates

    Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": W...

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Ubirajara jubatus, the "Maned Lord of the Spear," is a beautifully preserved 3' long, ~112 million-year-old meat-eating Brazilian dinosaur.  The specimen is preserved with a proto-feathery mane down its spine...

    Ubirajara jubatus, "Maned Lord of the Spear": W...

    Dr. Brian Curtice

    Ubirajara jubatus, the "Maned Lord of the Spear," is a beautifully preserved 3' long, ~112 million-year-old meat-eating Brazilian dinosaur.  The specimen is preserved with a proto-feathery mane down its spine...

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