Palmeirense

The committee meeting by Tampen on Flickr.

Jaguar(Ales Gola)

Wide Body Murcielago in brushed aluminum (wrap)

Source

Chestnut Colored Woodpecker. Photo by Bill Holsten

Ninja cat

man and blue whale by Matthew Coutts

Every now and then, the vagaries of fossilization throw a bony wrench into the carefully laid plans of paleontologists. A good example is the tiny Scleromochlus, a skittering, long-limbed, late Triassic reptile that (as far as experts can tell) was either ancestral to the first pterosaurs or occupied a poorly understood “dead end" in reptilian evolution. Some paleontologists assign Scleromochlus to the controversial family of archosaurs known as “ornithodirans," a group which may or may not even turn out to make sense from a taxonomic standpoint. Confused yet?