What do fossils tell us? It’s an obvious question, commonly phrased as ‘What is the point in studying fossils?’, but often can be one of the more difficult ones to answer objectively. The most prominent reason, that I’m sure a lot of people will agree with, is that we want to know what ancient and […]
If anyone reading this personally knows me, they will be able to tell you that one of my pet peeves at the moment revolves around the definitions of commonly used words in ecology such as ‘trait’ and ‘niche’. This article is going to focus on what is specifically meant by a ‘trait’, in an ecological […]
Several links already summarise most of what is already known: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2011/december/new-horned-dinosaur-hidden-for-90-years-in-museum106428.html http://www.alfmuseum.org/in-the-news/112-new-dinosaur-named-by-alf-scientist http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Long+ignored+fossil+determined+species+horned+dinosaur/5816853/story.html I just wanted to spread the word a bit, and also show this picture I just found of the actual specimen! I took this photo last year while volunteering in the NHM. Copyright of the image goes to the Natural History Museum, […]