LAND OF THE DEAD

  A SPECTACULAR 600 FOOT TALL CLIFF OF MADISON LIMESTONE EXTENDS FOR MILES ALONG THE JONES CREEK TRAIL.  SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BASE OF SUCH A CLIFF LIES IS AN IMPORTANT FOSSIL FISH LOCALITY A...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-ones-that-got-away-day-at-old-fish.html

There are few things as frightening as the idea of being attacked by a large crocodile.  It is truly the stuff that nightmares are made of.  Sandy Rossi can testify to that.  When 27 y...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2014/02/unsung-weirdos-i-crocs-that-ate-plants.html

THE ADORNED REMAINS OF SAINT FELIX, ONCE OF THE PARISH OF TAFERS, SWITZERLAND NOW ON EXHIBIT AT THE MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY IN FRIBOURG. A remarkable amount of my life has revolved aroun...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2014/01/bejewelled-bones.html

A GOLDEN BROWN OPPORTUNITY As noted in an earlier post, my son Griffin is now in the PhD program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at CalTech University in Pasadena. So while on a ...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/09/checking-off-bucket-list.html

Squid is an acquired taste – one that many people cheerfully never acquire (check out the Odori-do video clip at    for a good reason why).  But ...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/08/last-suppers-calamari-dal-mesozoico.html

  PAY ATTENTION! THIS IS THE LONGEST POST YET AT LAND OF THE DEAD BUT PLEASE PERSEVERE CONSTANT READER.  MANY PEOPLE WENT THROUGH A GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND EFFORT IN FINDING THESE FOSS...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/07/one-hell-of-place-to-find-fossil-bones.html

THE COLUMBIA MAMMOTH WAS A GIANT OF  PLEISTOCENE NORTH AMERICA Understanding the life of the past can sometimes be quite challenging. For some groups of organisms there are no living des...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-columbia-mammoths-fatal-flight-to.html

A FEMALE  FANTAIL SEA DEVIL BECKONS YOU TO  "COME TO MOMMA....". Many humans have a skewed view of the biological world.  Being highly visual creatures adapted to a day active lifestyl...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/05/come-to-momma-forever-mothers-day-2013.html

The world is a big and fascinating place. There is simply so many interesting things to do and learn about that choosing a career can be a daunting task and one that we often have to decide abou...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/04/paleontology-and-microbes-why-my-father.html

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN My blog post of April 1st 2011 announced the frightful partial collapse, in the middle of the night, of the Quarry Visitor Center onto the dinosaur fossil exhi...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/03/lithographiae-wirceburgensis-ducentis.html

A female Nephila pilipes daintily dines on a dead bat (Rhinolophus cornutus orii) caught in its web in Japan. Spiders are a fascinating and remarkably successful group of arthropods, with ...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/03/big-meals-for-big-spiders_19.html

An eternal theme in science fiction, both written and film, is the discovery of dinosaurs still living somewhere in the modern world.  They turn up in a remarkable number of places; on the tops ...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/02/reworked-dinosaurs-relocated-royal.html

Perhaps a delicate flower? Nope, just the scolex of the extant rhinebothriidean cestode Rhinebothrium. But you already knew that. Life comes in a kaleidoscope of sizes, morphologies, and e...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/02/parasites-poop-and-paleontology.html

 EXPLORE UTAH SCIENCE is a very nice, and relatively new, website that covers news stories  relevant to the citizens of Utah.  The main part of the site is organized around the themes of ...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2013/01/take-side-trip-to-ancient-desert.html

We are again heading into the Holidays with all the over indulgence that entails.  Whether you celebrate the end of the old year and the arrival of the new as a religious or a cultural even...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/12/take-two-fossils-and-call-me-in-morning.html

Trilobites are one of the few groups of fossil invertebrates that are easily recognized by the public.  For some 270,000,000 years (from the early Cambrian until the cataclysmic global exti...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/11/trilobites-and-tragedy-in-third-reich.html

Some time ago we looked at a Permian Paleobotanical Pompeii found during mining operations in China.  A just published paper announces the discovery of another fantastic window on the past unco...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-bone-mine.html

Fossils can be frustratingly, even maddeningly, rare, especially those of vertebrates. Invertebrates, including the hard parts of single cell organisms, can sometimes be so abundant as to make u...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/09/out-on-town-with-fossils.html

For the third time in less than a month someone I know has buried an adult child who died way too young. The most recent, and the most personal, was my nephew Matt Den Bleyker, who passed away su...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/09/if-you-love-them-tell-so.html

I haven’t done any book reviews on Land of the Dead because many of the paleontology books I read are filled with descriptions of bones and detailed analyses of evolutionary relationship...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/08/bringing-dead-back-to-life.html

Musing over the medusae of transparent Moon jellies (Aurelia sp.), at Monterey Bay Aquarium ETHEREAL JELLIES While I’ve never seen an organism I would call ugly, some are certainly mor...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-joys-of-jellies_2.html

Well summer is here and with it the busy season has arrived. Numerous outside paleontologists are working in Dinosaur National Monument and we have already made some remarkable discoveries. With...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/06/fathers-day-2012-thank-goodness-for.html

If you would like to help save the Mongolian Tyannosaurus and other important dinosaur specimens slated for auction on Sunday, please go to   http://www.change.org/petitions/heritage-auctions...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/update-help-save-mongolian.html

Heritage Auctions, a large auction house in New York City, has a number of dinosaur fossils going on the auction block this Sunday.  A number of these are spectacular, including a complete skele...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/mongolian-dinosaurs-in-peril.html

Montana, 318 million-years-ago. Red line is the equator and the black line marks 10 degrees north latitude.  Yellow circle is the site of the Bear Gulch Limestone. Montana winters were cert...

http://qvcproject.blogspot.com/2012/05/mothers-day-2012-celebrating-ancient.html