Gigantaraptor is My Homeboy

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In this video, meet the paleontologists who are finding pterosaur bones all around the globe. Hear what they love about their jobs, and which pterosaur species are their favorites!

Fossil Friday, Tylosaurus skull.

© The Field Museum, GEO79878.

Tylosaurus skull. Late or Upper Cretaceous, Niobrara Chalk of Kansas. Order: Squamata. Family: Mosasauridae Geology specimen P 15144.

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Una serie di ricostruzioni di ammoniti Giurassiche della Sicilia provenienti dalle Rocche Rosse (Galati Mamertino, Messina, Sicilia, Italia)

A serie of reconstruction in life of Jurassic ammonites of Sicily from Rocche Rosse (Galati Mamertino, Messina, Sicily, Italy)

1. Amphiceras harpoceroides

2. Belemnites sp.

3. Miltoceras sellae

4. Nautilus brancoi

5. Rhacophyllites libertus

Earliest Bird Pollinator Found in Germany

Fossilized 47 million years ago, it was the size of a hummingbird—but unlike any living species.

Today’s hummingbirds ferry pollen from blossom to blossom, helping flowering plants reproduce. Their occupational ancestors, however, were birds of a different feather. According to a paper published in this week’s Biology Letters, a fossilized bird from millions of years ago offers the earliest, most direct evidence to date of bird pollination.

Pachycephalosaurus, Ely Kish

Amazingly Vivid Dino Illustrations Reveal a Brutal Prehistoric World

Over its lifetime, Earth has hosted countless species. But some of those species, like the dinosaurs, have managed to claw their way into a special place in our imaginations. Now, a new book illustrates the dinosaurs — and many of the beasts of millennia ago — in beautiful, spectacular and vicious style.

In one illustration, tiny Utahraptors tear at the flesh of a much larger creature. Another shows a rather unlikely but fanciful encounter between giant megalodon and funny-looking platybelodon. A more serene image depicts a well-camouflaged little dinosaur sleeping beneath a tree in a lush, green forest.

The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi, available on May 20, is a collection of artwork by Julius Csotonyi, an award-winning illustrator whose work lives in museums and in science papers. Csotonyi, who holds a PhD in microbiology, works frequently with paleontologists who need help bringing their fossil finds to life. Sometimes, though, he draws whatever comes to mind. According to Csotonyi’s parents, his first illustration, at age 3, was of a dinosaur. “It appears to have been intended to be a rooster,” Csotonyi says in the book.