Welcome one and all to the rebooted Boneyard, a blog carnival dedicated to the multitudinous wonders of paleontology. I hope that the Boneyard can really take root and become a proud member of the science blog carnival community (which you can follow more easily thanks to the efforts of the good [...]
Monday is here already and although lots of folks in the States have today off (Labor Day), I don't (from blogging or teaching)!
Some news:
There is a whole lot more information out there on the Christchurch earthquake that occurred last Friday. It is remarkable that no one died due to the [...]
I recently (like yesterday, how's that for speed?!) did an interview for Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings. So if you want to read about it head on over, leave a comment if you have questions, I'll try to answer them:)But for now, here's a work in progress of Sinotyrannus. He's got chicken [...]
I am fortunate to have friends from my days as a ranger at Grand Canyon who love to run southwestern rivers. Perhaps three times a year we will all converge at a remote "put-in" somewhere with the intention of running a wild stretch of a beautiful river. A few weeks ago we met in northwest Colorado [...]
The Musings will be a bit quiet for the next week or so while I move continents. Normal (ish) service to resume soon. In the meantime I’ll keep my head down (behind
Geological Movie Review of Armageddon - Overview- NASA Technology - Some of the events or items in the movie I am not going to get too in depth about. These include the use of civilians in space or the drill that they plan on using. [...]
Well the 2010 Beijing pterosaur meeting is at an end, though many of the participants are still in and around Beijing soaking up local culture, food and pterosaur specimens. I’m back in the office preparing for my big move this week (proper Musings announcement to come, but I’m leaving [...]
July 31 saw Helen and I walking down into Bryce Canyon from Sunset Point along the Queen's Garden Trail to Queen Victoria rock and up through Wall Street to Sunrise Point. It was a steamy July day but no rain fell on Bryce today. We took in Dave Gillette's talk once again at the Visitor Center [...]
You probably heard about the fire in Flagstaff earlier this summer in June. Check out some amazing photos of the fire at Wayne Ranney's blog here: http://earthly-musings.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-shots-of-schultz-fire.html.The fire was followed by some heavy thunderstorms and significant [...]
Towering cumulonimbus clouds and summer monsoon rains provide the perfect backdrop to the first ever Geology Festival held at Bryce Canyon National Park July 30 and 31. The festival celebrates the geologic heritage on display in one of our nations most endearing national landscapes - Bryce Canyon. [...]
Prologue: “Deep in the forest a man sitting on a large stone heard a voice. “Do you want to hear a story?” The man looked up, and wondered, because nobody was there. “Do you want to hear a story?” repeated the voice. Then the man realized that the voice was coming from the stone, where [...]
I got to borrow a class today. This was important for me in this most unusual summer. California's budget crunch left me with no classes to teach over the summer months for the first time in years, and I was going through withdrawal pains.I wasn't really aware of this at the time, as I had immersed [...]
This blog reported on the huge Schultz fire in late June on the east side of the San Francisco Peaks. Now, a strong monsoon pattern has developed over northern Arizona and strong tropical moisture is dousing the forests in our state. While this is great for the pine greenery here, the severely [...]
Be sure to check out the great interview with Luis Rey at Dave Hone's blog Archosaur Musings!(I especially like the accompanying photos, showing some of Rey's fossil and dinosaur toy collection, along with a few of his feathered friends!)Luis Rey's wonderful cover illustration of Thomas Holtz' [...]
It's been looming in the background for some time, unbeknownst to the great unwashed masses. It's been an open secret among paleontologists and science enthusiasts, a dirty truth none would dare speak in public. That most famous of dinosaurs, a veritable symbol of nature's majesty and the wonders [...]
Recent posts on the Musings have drawn heavily from my long overdue first visit to this place, so it’s high time I got on and added a review. It is, in short, superb, and well worth several hours of almost anyone’s time. The most notable feature is the way in which so much material and
Researchers were recently working in the desert badlands of coastal Peru and unearthed the skull of a giant toothed whale. The deposits that held the skull were middle Miocene in age (about 12 million years ago) and the teeth were enormous. Follow this link for pictures, diagrams and a short video [...]
Megapode eggs in volcanically heated sand on Papua New Guinea. Photo by Rita Willaert, via flickr.Sometimes, an idea is too good not to be repeated. Some members of the family of modern birds called megapodes have found volcanically heated ground quite suitable for incubating their eggs. It turns [...]
The Schultz fire here in Flagstaff is now 60% contained and crews are just mopping up.But look at this movie of a landslide that happened in Italy this past January. It is
News!
The summit crater lake at Gorely in Russia, taken on June 21, 2010. Image courtesy of KVERT.
Eruptions readers have been abuzz about how KVERT will be closing shop (yet again) at the end of June. This would, of course, leave no local monitoring and expertise in the very active Kamchatka [...]
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