Giants once ruled the planet, and it was more recent than you think. After the dinosaurs departed the Earth 65 million years ago, they left a void, and mammals stepped in to take their place. During the Pleistocene (2 million to 11,700 years ago), giant mammals, called megafauna, roamed nearly every continent on the planet.…
Crazy Dinosaurs: Shovel Face Vacuum Mouth
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 –…
Check Out This Hot New Dinosaur With the Murderously Large Sexy Nose
Meet King Nose…Although he prefers his more formal title Rhinorex condrupus, esq., thanks much. Rhinorex was found in Utah’s Neslen formation – in 1991. Freakin’ scientists, always so painstaking with the cataloguing and whatnot. If they weren’t so busy checking out his fancy skin patterns, we could have known about the giant nose dinosaur 23 years…