I just blogged about giant fleas in the Jurassic. Now, I’ve got to mention the giant Penguin that has just been reconstructed from fossils found in New Zealand. The penguin lived about 26 million years ago and does not look… Read More »Giant prehistoric penguin is reconstructed in New Zealand
Scientists have found fossils of huge fleas that dined on dinosaur blood. Modern fleas are about 1-10 mm in length, but Cretaceous fleas were between 8-21 mm (not really big, but a 21 mm flea would devour your pet dog… Read More »Super-sized fleas adapted to feed off dinosaurs
Although the animals in the picture look like the common earthworms, they are actually a new family of legless amphibians that live in the soil in India. Researchers in India have discovered seven new species of the family deep in… Read More »Limbless amphibian family discovered in India
Et tu, Linnaeus? | Conservation Magazine. I actually decided against one graduate school to study mammalogy, because there was a requirement for studying Latin. That was not going to happen.