a gentle reminder that most dinosaurs walked on their tip toes...

imagine the ultimate damage one could do wearing THESE BAD BOYS:

alberta - 1; the rest of canada - 0

effective immediately, all alberta driver's licences will have an albertosaurus on them!

one time thing

PBF #257

i've had my head in the sand. on purpose. because i didn't want to rename my blog.

i can't fight it anymore. i've been called out by science... and... cap'n funpants.

so, here it is:

in 2015, scientific american printed an article titled, The Brontosaurus Is Back. this article probably got its' historical brontosaurus details by amalgamating my first few blog posts from 2009 & 2010 (but removed all of my wit). a 300-page study was conducted on my fave family of sauropods - the diplodocids - and what they found (or think they found) was that a certain type of brontosaurus actually did exist! and it's called the brontosaurus excelsus!

now, the jury is still out on just how many hairs were split to come up with this but i feel like it's my duty to tell the world about it.

a pause...

“Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.” 
― Villiers de L'Isle-Adam

how to plant a cactus

thank you to Kate-Lynn Flanagan for properly demonstrating how to get your cactus on.

DREADNOUGHTUS - best heavy metal band name ever **#2 in the series**

meaning FEAR NOTHING, this 65 tonne beast ate plants like nobody's business.

hard core plant muncher...
scary faced herbivore...
salad toothed intimidator...
argentinian vegan monster...

if this was my death metal band, song titles would include:

shrubbery
i am super massive
bones exposed
fossil of a nation
and we would cover Meat is Murder by The Smiths

this would be the album cover:

the other dreadnoughtus

mansourasaurus shahinae

back when egypt's western desert was a coastal jungle slash mostly under water (so about 73 million years ago), there were a few crazy big lizards hanging out there.
very few fossil remains have been found in africa but this new guy just showed his left dentary to the folks at the mansoura university who have been trying to find a needle in a haystack for years.

a bit derpy

according to live science, this find is a pretty big deal because this is only the 6th dino species to be found on that continent.

rainbow dino?!

straight outta china........ crazy MF named CAIHONG JUJI!

translating to rainbow with a big crest, this shimmering iridescent wonder is making scientists ponder how truly colourful the jurassic period may have been. imagine randomly finding THIS on your farm?!

only in my dreams...

here's an artist rendition of what this bad boy, dance-fighter may have looked like:

ca-CAAWWWW