In my last post , I introduced a ground-breaking study recently published in PLoS ONE , that shows how we can infer long-term trends in anim...

Taphonomy - the study of what happens to an organism after it dies - is integral to reconstructing the past. Perhaps the most important les...

Thanks to a variety of "real world" concerns and deadlines, I've been a little sparse on the blog for the past few weeks. But,...

It finally happened - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has taken a few more tentative steps into the 21st century! Both in an editorial i...

The last two posts here have focused on my most recently published paper , fully describing the skull of the horned dinosaur known as Nedo...

In my last post , I mentioned that I have had more fun with my recent project on Nedoceratops than anything else I've done lately. Just...

Every group of animals has at least one notable yet neglected specimen. In horned dinosaurs, a particular example is a large skull at the Sm...