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The Fossil Blog

Snickers investigates a turtle, whose ancestors originated about 230 million years ago.

Walk Your Dog, Discover a Dinosaur

“I was taking a walk with my dog before going to work,” said Damien Boschetto, a 25-year-old amateur fossil sleuth...

Have some caviar to welcome in 2024! The ancestral sturgeon survived, and you can too!

Have some caviar to welcome in 2024! The ancestral sturgeon survived, and you can too!

Before you down your savory New Year’s Eve treat of caviar—luxuriously heaped atop toast points—take a moment to consider the...

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology/Julius Csotonyi

A Full Belly, A Final Meal

Young gorgosaurs dine from their own children’s menu—think small, young prey—and as they grow occupy different ecological niches. Slender in...

In Memory of Maggie, the Original Founding Fossil

In Memory of Maggie, the Original Founding Fossil

Her original gifts of trinkets soon gave way to minerals, rocks, and small fossils. I carefully unwrapped the small bundles,...

Honoring Fellow Fossil John McPhee

Honoring Fellow Fossil John McPhee

 “Surface appearances are only that. Topography grows, shrinks, compresses, spreads, disintegrates, and disappears; every scene is temporary, and is composed...

Crushing on Dino the Dinosaur

Crushing on Dino the Dinosaur

Children may instinctively know that a T. rex would happily consume them as an hors d'oeuvre, but it doesn’t matter....

Falling for the Positively Medieval ‘Ankylosaurus’

Falling for the Positively Medieval ‘Ankylosaurus’

Many of our fellow fossils develop a deep and soulful relationship with certain dinos. As a kid (and fan of...

An owl-like theropod was discovered in outer Mongolia

Beware the Mongolian Night Stalker!

"It's a somewhat odd dinosaur," said Lars Schmitz, an associate professor of biology at the W.M. Keck Science Center at...

Spinosaurus Tail Wags the Dinosaur

Spinosaurus Tail Wags the Dinosaur

New discoveries bring Spinosaurus, who ruled the Late Cretaceous seas of North Africa, closer to becoming the first officially recognized aquatic dinosaur.

The Oviraptorid has been found to incubate its young. Artwork by Zhao Chuang

Prehistoric, But Still Caring Parents

It may give you proud dinosaurs some degree of satisfaction to know that at least one species of theropod—an oviraptorosaur—was...

Commit the Past and Present to Paper: Coping in the Age of Covid

Commit the Past and Present to Paper: Coping in the Age of Covid

We live in frightening times. The journal is your secret place to tell your stories, whether they remain private musings...

Support Old-School Niceties--and Science--with our Dinosaur Notecards and Journals

Support Old-School Niceties--and Science--with our Dinosaur Notecards and Journals

Help transform the cultural landscape and preserve old-school values every time you dash off a missive. Or think of teaching...

Be Positively Prehistoric® and Put Pen to Paper!

Be Positively Prehistoric® and Put Pen to Paper!

In our new daily lives we’ve rediscovered Old School touchstones: cooking every meal from fresh ingredients, reading more books, or...

Does My Gray Hair Render Me Obsolete?

Does My Gray Hair Render Me Obsolete?

The ageism that permeates our society--evidenced by words like "dinosaur," "fossil," and "old school"--are assumed to be pejoratives. I take that as...

Extolling the Olden Days with Gurhan

Extolling the Olden Days with Gurhan

I first came across the jewelry of Gurhan more than a decade ago, when a double-strand gold and black-diamond necklace...

Stand Your Ground

Stand Your Ground

Our digital age forces us to gain access to customer service through the internet. The frustration mounts with each successive non-answer. Insist...

Subversive About Age

Subversive About Age

As a self-proclaimed dinosaur, I applaud women of the great- and grandmother generation who assert their confident sense of chic...

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A Belemnite for Your Bucket List

Fellow fossils, add this trip to your bucket list: The Jurassic Coast, a 95-mile stretch of seashore on the English Channel side...

Slothful Humans

Slothful Humans

Humans apparently hunted giant ground sloths in what is today the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, according to...

Death Throes

Death Throes

If you’ve looked at the articulated 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx fossils, you probably have noticed that they all have a weirdly similar pose: their...

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Thank You

We’ve already mentioned that an important Dinosaur Value is putting pen to paper. Putting a (fountain) pen (with blue-black ink)...

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The Primal Urge to Adorn

"...about 70,000 years ago, humans in Africa began showing signs of more abstract thinking [than crafting basic tools like stone...

Our Commitment to AAAS

Our Commitment to AAAS

It’s up to fossils like us to support the mission of scientists who continue to learn more about dinosaurs, but...

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Put Pen to Paper!

I never abandoned my paper agenda and take great pleasure in visiting a certain New York City department store to...

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