Posts Tagged ‘dinosaur’
Happy Thanksgiving! Celebrate by eating a Dinosaur!
We love Thanksgiving! The stuffing, green beans and pumpkin pie… mmmmm. But the traditional main course is of course… dinosaur.
“What!?!?” you say! Well watch this video from Nat Geo that describes how the turkey on your dinner table evolved from theropod dinosaurs.
Blast from my Past – Denver the Last Dinosaur
Over at the Smithsonian Dinosaur Tracking Blog, writer Brian Switek, totally blew my mind by reminding me of a cartoon I watched when I was a kid.
Denver the Last Dinosaur was pretty bad and pretty 80′s, but I definitely remember watching episodes of this. I can’t say this show is responsible in any way for my current love of science but it is still fun to look back.
Here is a Brian’s blog post…
Dino ‘graveyard’ reveals first Asian triceratops
Posted by: Avi in New Discoveries on January 8th, 2009
The world’s largest dinosuar fossil site that was recently found in China’s Shandong province has yielded its first big discovery. A 2 meter long skull resembling that of the famed horned dinosaur triceratops has been found. This is the first evidence that Ceratopsids, which is a family of four-legged, horned and crested dinosuars, lived outside of what is now North America.
Although early ancestors of ceratopsids have been found in China, true Ceratopsids have only been found in Alaska, western Canada and the western US… until now. The bones have not been precisely dated but are thought to be from 100 to 65 million years old.
