Sticks 'n Stones 'n Dinosaur Bones
Now that HBO's "Bone Wars" movie is presumably a no-go--the late, great James Gandolfini was slated to star opposite Steve Carell--you may think the opportunity has vanished to popularize this late...
View ArticleThe Story of Primate Evolution
Primates--a category of megafauna mammals that includes not only humans and hominids, but monkeys, apes, lemurs, baboons and tarsiers--have a deep evolutionary history that stretches as far back as the...
View ArticleA Gallery of Extinct Megafauna Mammals
From the Giant Wombat to the Saber-Tooth Tiger, the Cenozoic Era was chock-full of oversized, menacing, and vaguely comical-looking mammals. Here's a picture gallery of over 60 megafauna mammals,...
View ArticleThe 10 Hardest-to-Pronounce Prehistoric Animals
Not every extinct creature is as memorably named as Tyrannosaurus Rex or Triceratops. Here are 10 prehistoric animals that even seasoned paleontologists find it difficult to spell, much less pronounce,...
View ArticleDate Like a Dinosaur!
After a long, harsh winter, spring is finally here--so you may be wondering how to apply the stark evolutionary lessons of the dinosaur kingdom to your endangered love life. Here are 10 Jurassic dating...
View ArticleDoes Oil Come From Dinosaurs?
There has been a popular meme making the rounds on the Web: "If oil is made from decomposed dinosaurs, and plastic is made from oil, are plastic dinosaurs made from real dinosaurs?" Short answer: No,...
View ArticleWhat Can Dinosaurs Tell Us About Global Warming?
Just because it's unusually cold out lately doesn't mean global warming hasn't been proceeding apace. Both sides in the global-warming debate--those who believe human beings are helping to accelerate...
View ArticleCan We Clone a Dinosaur?
There's been a "news story" floating around the Web lately to the effect that scientists in England have managed to clone a baby Apatosaurus. (A sharp-eyed reader may note that the accompanying...
View ArticleWhy Do Animals Go Extinct?
What are the factors that cause a plant or animal to go extinct--not only in the present day, but hundreds of millions of years ago? Here's a list of the 10 most common causes of species...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Dinosaurs By Continent
What were the most important dinosaurs of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica? Here's a handy list of the top 10 dinosaurs by continent, ranging from the North...
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