Early Permian terrestrial apex predator regurgitalite indicates opportunistic feeding behaviour by Arnaud Rebillard, Andréas Jannel, Lorenzo Marchetti Mark J. MacDougall, Christopher Hamann, J.-Sébastien Steyer & Jörg Fröbisch
A fascinating paper in many ways!
Ancient Sea Reptiles
Darren Naish
Smithsonian Book, 2023
ISBN 9781588347275
Appears to have originally been published in UK by Natural History Museum, London.
Interesting paper:
Impact-induced initiation of a Snowball Earth: A model study
Minmin Fu, Dorian S. Abbot, Christian Koeberl, Alexey Fedorov
Science Advances, 10 eadk5489 (2024) 9 February 2024
I read a paper, Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen trigger the origin of animals? by Daniel B. Mills and Donald E. Canfield, BioEssays, Volume 36 (12) - Dec 1, 2014
I can’t find a good, free, PDF of this one, mateys.
The Morrison Museum of Natural History makes a good pair with a visit to Denver area Dinosaur Ridge.
If you’re in the Denver, CO, area, you really should head out to the western end of Alameda Boulevard, where you’ll find Dinosaur Ridge. You can see Apatosaurus footprints, and just possibly, the remains of Tyrannosaur Rex courtship rituals.
I read a paper, Skeletal pathologies track body plan evolution in ichthyosaurs, by Judith M Pardo-Pérez, Benjamin P Kear, Erin E Maxwell
I read a couple of papers dealing with Ordovician period geology and paleontology.
Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring during the Ordovician, Andrew G Tomkins, Erin L Martin, Peter A Cawood, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 646 (2024)118991
Understanding the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): Influences of paleogeography, paleoclimate, or paleoecology?, Thomas Servais, David A.T. Harper, Jun Li, Axel Munnecke, Alan W Owen, Peter M Sheehan, GSA Today, April/May 2009
