Paleontology

A paper worth reading:

Tihelka, E.; Howard, R.J.; Cai, C.; Lozano-Fernandez, J.

Was There a Cambrian Explosion on Land? The Case of Arthropod Terrestrialization.

Biology 2022, 11, 1516.

https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11101516

Ammonites, Neal Monks and Philip Palmer, 2002, Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN 1-58834-024-4

I just read a short note, Earliest Triassic ichthyosaur fossils push back oceanic reptile origins, from Current Biology 33:159-179, March 2023, Benjamin Kear, Victoria Engelschion, Oyvind Hammer, Aubrey Roberts, Jorn Hurum.

I found a bunch of new and new-ish work on the end-Ordovician extinction

A Museum You Should Visit

Hot Springs, South Dakota has a unique museum, The Mammoth Site. If you’re anywhere near South Dakota’s Black Hills, The Mammoth Site is worth a stop.

Paleontogical reconstructions evolve over time.

An interesting popular geology and paleontology book. Long, but it has a lot of great ideas, I recommend reading it.

This is a 60-year-old reconstruction of an Oviraptor, from Discovering Dinosaurs, by Glenn O Blough, pictures by Gustav Schrotter, copyright 1960 by Glenn O. Blough. Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 60-8020, Weekly Reader Paperback Book Club edition published by arrangements with McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY.

I believe this is the picture that got me interested in dinosaurs, and from dinosaurs, I became interested in paleontology.