We didn’t expect it either. For those of you that follow us, you might have seen in the news that our team recently published on the long list of dinosaur footprints that have been found over the years around the … Continue reading
Author Archives: Phil Bell
Dinosaur Skin, Scars, and Bad Behaviour
If there’s one thing that gets me jazzed up about palaeontology, it’s behaviour. Not that of other palaeontologists (although that’s an interesting side topic) but that of the animals we study. Recreating behaviour in animals that no human has ever … Continue reading
Nutty Biology – A Nervy Journey
Everyone knows that cells are those tiny, little building blocks in living plants and animals. Right? Well, here’s one for the Biology textbooks: the incredible journey of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. This is the nerve that controls some of the … Continue reading
Dinosores? Injury and Disease among Dinosaurs
Bones can tell us a lot about the owner: What species was it? What did it look like? How old was it? But one of the most interesting questions to me is, what did it suffer from? Perhaps that’s … Continue reading
Ultimate Dinosaurs in Toronto
Last week i paid a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to see their latest dinosaur exhibition; The Ultimate Dinosaurs, a collection of some of the most spectacular beasts to grace this planet. Forget Triceratops and all the dinosaurs … Continue reading
The aliens have landed!
Dinosaurs never seem to cease to amaze with their weird and wonderful designs. The newest discovery from southern Alberta, Xenoceratops foremostensis is no exception. Xenoceratops is another horned dinosaur or ceratopsian, a group of dinosaurs that has seen an incredible explosion of … Continue reading
A computerised look inside a 70 million year old dinosaur
Last Spring, visiting geologist Dr. Federico Fanti discovered the articulated remains of a hadrosaur on a river bank west of Grande Prairie. The lone boulder containing the bones, now at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, was prepared to reveal … Continue reading
Pachyrhinosaurus gets a new cousin
Grande Prairie’s poster-boy of dinosaurs, Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai now stands alongside the newest member of the group, this time from Alaska. The new species, Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum, was officially announced last week by palaeontologists Anthony Fiorillo and Ronald Tykoski. The species name pays tribute to … Continue reading
Inside the belly of the beast
How do we know what dinosaurs ate? Why, from their stomach contents of course. Very rarely do we get a glimpse into how animals behaved from the fossil record. However, occasionally a remarkable fossil turns up that opens up a … Continue reading
Dinosaur Hunting on the Peace River
This week, I was lucky enough to join a small expedition on the Peace River (north-western Alberta) hunting for dinosaurs in the little-known Dunvegan Formation. Our team, led by post-doctoral fellow Matt Vavrek from the Royal Ontario Museum, spent four … Continue reading
