About a month ago John Scannella and Jack Horner published an article "Torosaurus Marsh, 1891, is Triceratops Marsh, 1889 (Ceratopsidae: Chasmosaurinae): synonymy through ontogeny" in the Journal of Paleontology*

*Note. Ceratopsidae are the "horned dinosaurs", including Styracosaurus, Triceratops/Torosaurus, Chasmosaurus, and Pachyrhinosaurus to ( Read more... )

So  having had a look at the paper, and watched the video courtesy of Nature I thought I'd see how the various newspapers reported this new and interesting discovery.

As far as I can see The Daily Express doesn't cover it at all. But as their astrologer is writing a guide to getting fit in 2010 I think they might have given up on being a newspaper ( Read more... )

The entire world seems to have gone utterly insane over this fossil, known colloquially as "Ida", but officially as Darwinius masillae. And it is a lovely fossil. It is also important because it will, I'm sure, tell us lots about what was going on in primate evolution 47 million years ago. I'm not going to go through the reports because there are ( Read more... )

Mark Witton (who as well as being a pterosaur bod is a fabulous artist- seriously check out the flickr set) has identified a new genus and species of pterosaur. This time its published in Palaeontology, so unlike last time not everyone can go and read the paper for free. Fortunately Mark blogs as well as publishes his art on the flickr site. (The ( Read more... )