The Whirlpool of Life
We have to welcome a new Paleo-blogger to our community: Scott Sampson started yesterday a new blog, 'the Whirlpool of Life'. The day of this birth was well chosen: the 150 anniversary of 'On the Origin of Species'.More about this new blog can be read at 'Archosaur musings', 'the Open Source Paleontologist'or 'el Pakozoico'.Welcome, Scott to our community, which has been exponent

DK's Prehistoric
Last week I received my copy of the new DK's prehistoric life project, 'Prehistoric', aka 'Prehistoric life' for the American version. Some authors have commented about it before, like Dave Hone or Darren Naish, whom I had the pleasure to work with. So I think this contribution won't be very different from theirs, if not, a little shorter.

Darwinopterus all around!
Darwinopterus (Darwin's wing) is a new chinese pterosaur you'll probably heard about... it's everywhere in the internet these days! This little pal (about the size of a crow) comes to fill what it was an empty space in pterosaur evolution: it shows characteristics similar to Pterodactyloidea, and also Rhamphorhynchoidea It has just publ

Rock, paper... but no scissors, please!
Rock, paper, maybe even lizard and Spock, but no scissors! At least, as it concerns to Spanish science! Next year's national budgets show a -15% for scientific research, so the whole spanish blogosphere has answered. Everyone who owns a blog and disagrees with this messure, has posted today, October 7th, about it.The idea began with Javier Peláez's blog, "La Aldea Irreductible

About the Paleo Paper Challenge!
Probably most of you have any paper that hasn't come out. Papers you have started writing and never finished, or papers whose other autors are still reviewing. Sometimes they just are a group of notes on an interesting topic. But you've never been brave enough to face it... so here's the solution! Check The Open Source Paleontologist, where Andy Farke and Dave Hone announced the Paleo Paper Challenge: as both self-motivation to get the project done and a nice little race to see who can finish first.But there's a Deadline: January 1, 2010.So, do you join us?