Tylosaurus! (Art by Julius T. Csotonyi, courtesy Royal Tyrrel Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alta. |
2019-11-14
the t-rex of the sea
2019-10-16
the mint has made good choices
i'm excited to share the news (that daniel shared with me) about the royal canadian mint's decision to to put out a 3-coin set titled DINOSAURS OF CANADA.
the big guys chosen to be 25 cent'ed are:
albertosaurus sarcophagus (tyrannosaurid)
pachyrhinosuarus canadensis (ceratopsid)
edmontonia longiceps (nodosaurid)
good work canada!
the big guys chosen to be 25 cent'ed are:
albertosaurus sarcophagus (tyrannosaurid)
pachyrhinosuarus canadensis (ceratopsid)
edmontonia longiceps (nodosaurid)
good work canada!
2019-10-11
check this do
mullet raptor
he comes in the night
like his ancestor trogdor and mr. cohoon
he keeps his shit tight
illustration by jan sovak |
find out more about this hip cat here.
2019-10-09
2019-09-17
take that, gulf of mexico!
An artist's interpretation of the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago. (NASA/Don Davis) |
2019-08-07
Lemmy lives on
BOW DOWN MORTALS!
The Lemmysuchus obtusidens is (was) here.
That's right fools. This sick telesaur roamed/swam around in the now european section of our planet 164 million years ago and measured in at a badass 6 metres long; it's head was 1 metre long.
Like this:
Lemmy's bass looked like this:
I see all sorts of similarities. Let's delve deeper...
Makes sense to this gal.
The Lemmysuchus obtusidens is (was) here.
That's right fools. This sick telesaur roamed/swam around in the now european section of our planet 164 million years ago and measured in at a badass 6 metres long; it's head was 1 metre long.
Like this:
© Mark Witton/Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London |
Lemmy's bass looked like this:
Rickenbacker Lemmy Kilmister Signature 4004LK "Rickenbastard" |
Here's Lemmy:
no photo cred found |
*of note, Lemmy's blunt toothed crocodile could snaggletooth it's way through turtle shells and other hard stuff. Lemmy also navigated hard stuff. Fin.
2019-02-14
"not much larger than a common sparrow"
when we think of dinosaurs, we usually envision ginormous creatures lumbering (gentle giants) or crashing (colby) through life with their big bods. we do not think of feathered beings. well, once again, science has bitch-slapped us - this time with the knowledge that most dinosaurs had feathers. and although we have been hearing about this for years now, we still don't reallllllly picture it, do we?
make way for this new awesome thing, folks! it's called a dinosaur tail and it's real and it's stuck in amber* and it's feathered and it's perfect.
This beauty was found in an amber mine in myanmar in 2016. you can read the entire Economist article here.
what i love about this photograph is that challenges what we think we know and reminds us that we don't know shit. also, that this tail was once attached to a tiny, mini dino "not much larger than a common sparrow". take that, us.
* whenever i hear about things trapped forever in amber, i always think of the book Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins. here's a sweet quote from it:
“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”
make way for this new awesome thing, folks! it's called a dinosaur tail and it's real and it's stuck in amber* and it's feathered and it's perfect.
This beauty was found in an amber mine in myanmar in 2016. you can read the entire Economist article here.
what i love about this photograph is that challenges what we think we know and reminds us that we don't know shit. also, that this tail was once attached to a tiny, mini dino "not much larger than a common sparrow". take that, us.
* whenever i hear about things trapped forever in amber, i always think of the book Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins. here's a sweet quote from it:
“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)