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Crazy Dinosaurs: Shovel Face Vacuum Mouth

August 14, 2017 by BitterEmpire Leave a Comment

Let us introduce you (or perhaps, re-introduce, for some of you fossil aficionados out there) to strange looking dinosaurs, crazy evolutionary adaptations and other incredibly nerdy fossil related news. Today, we bring you: Shovel Face-Vacuum Mouth – better known as Nigersaurus taqueti. Nigersaurus was first found in the Republic of Niger in 1976 by French…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: crazy dinosaur, dinosaur, shovel face

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Dinosaur News Round Up: New Discovery, Fish Explosions and Gendered Dinos

July 3, 2015 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

Scientists are busy finding new dinosaurs all over the place. Last week we brought you the Hell Chicken Dinosaur, this week, we bring you Clive. Okay, fine, they aren’t really calling Sefapanosaurus zastronensis Clive, but don’t you think he would have gotten more attention if they had? Clive is a sauropodomorph (yes, like the brontosaurs that may or…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: age of fish, dinosaur, gendered dinosaurs

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Hell Chicken Dinosaur and Other Fossil Facts

June 24, 2015 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

We are a nation obsessed with dinosaurs. And zombies. Clearly the next step is demonic zombie chicken-like dinosaurs. Well, do we have news for you! Back in March, scientists announced that they had found the dinosaur “chicken from hell.” Standing on two legs, at 11 feet tall and weighing in at 500 pounds, we bring…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: dinosaur, fossil, Hell Chicken

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Five Dinosaurs That Never Existed

March 20, 2015 by Bitter Staff 12 Comments

1. Brontosaurus That’s right, the go-to dinosaur of pop culture never existed. How could such a thing happen? Well, basically, paleontologists are jerks. Okay, fine. Maybe not. But towards the turn of the 20th century, two very famous paleontologists (O.C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope) were in a high stakes game of publish or perish1 and…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: Apatosaurus, archaeoraptor, brontosaurus, disappearing dinosaurs, hadrosaurus, pterosaurs, torosaurus, triceratops

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“Fake” Fossil Turns Out To Be Real Find

February 25, 2015 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Museums are odd places; a casual visitor sees only the tip of the iceberg. But behind the exhibits are treasure troves of carefully archived items. And occasionally the right person comes along and finds that something previously thought of as totally insignificant is actually an incredible discovery. The Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery had just such a…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: dinosaur, Doncaster Museum, fossils, ichthyosaurus

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Fossilized Life on Mars? Science Says…Maybe!

January 9, 2015 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

We’ve been rovering around Mars for quite some time now – in fact, the first rover, Sojourner, went into operation in 1997. Yeah, it doesn’t sound that long ago, but consider this: kids born that same year – they’re going to college now. Since we began rovering we have been developing a more detailed and…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: fossil, life, Mars, Noffke, rover

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Forget Bunny Dinosaurs: It’s All About Sexxy Science Controversies

December 12, 2014 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

Tiny dinosaurs have been trending this December. There was the paleontologist who wants to reverse engineer tiny velociraptors in the name of research. Then the internets became all aflutter with bunny dinosaur – Aquilops americanus.   But, the real scoop this month is not in the discovery of dinosaurs. Gerta Keller dropped a new paper that fills in…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: alvarez hypothesis, Aquilops americanus, bunny dinosaur, Deccan Flats, Gerta Keller, impact theory, mass extinction

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Four Fossil Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

November 21, 2014 by Bitter Staff Leave a Comment

[dropcap] 1. [/dropcap] Sabertooth Salmon Were Almost Real Did you know that 5 million years ago, during the Miocene Era, there were sabertooth salmon? Neither did we. And not only were they fanged, they also grew to be 9ft long. Insanity. But what’s even weirder is a recent discovery from the University of Oregon. It…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays Tagged With: fossils, ichthyosaur, sabertooth salmon, sea monsters

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Crazy Dinosaurs: Shovel Face Vacuum Mouth

October 10, 2014 by Bitter Staff 1 Comment

October 15th, 2014 is National Fossil Day. In the lead up to this celebration of all things fossilized let us introduce you (or perhaps, re-introduce, for some of you fossil aficionados out there) to strange looking dinosaurs, crazy evolutionary adaptations and other incredibly nerdy fossil related news. Today, we bring you: Shovel Face-Vacuum Mouth –…

Filed Under: Fossilized Fridays, SciTech Tagged With: dinosaurs, scitech, shovel face

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