The Dragon's Tales

The team...or more specifically *I* made a news column in the San Jose Mercury News .

Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D., a scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, has announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur, Medusa...

Just sold my Jeep. :(

As of May 24, 2010, WISE had seen more than 60,000 asteroids. Of those, >11,000 were new! Think about that -- more than one in six of th...

Nuff said.

They were aiming for Mach 6 and got Mach 5. That's a mile a second, folks. *IF* you could sustain that for an hour, you could hit anyw...

There is a guest post by one of the describers, Dr James Kirkland, at Archosaur Musings . Go read. This has been quite a week for cerato...

Ceratopsid dinosaurs represent one of the best known dinosaur groups in the Late Cretaceous, and their unquestionable fossil records are exc...

A new species of horned dinosaur unearthed in Mexico has larger horns that any other species – up to 4 feet long – and has given scientists ...

A Late Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur from Europe with Asian affinities 1. Attila Ősi (A) 2. Richard J. Butler (B) 3. David B. Weishampel (...

In this case she is just, plain, awesome though.

Was Tyrannosaurus rex cold-blooded? Did birds regulate their body temperatures before or after they began to grow feathers? Why would evolut...

Bats have a metabolism that is 3 to 5 times higher than terrestrial mammals. Apparently, the OXPHOS pathway is different in bats. It is s...

Sorry for the silence. It was rough getting the family out the door to Ukraine. I've been elbow deep in rocket stuff and trying to kee...

It seems highly unlikely that this will get funded. However, it's a purty picture. Oh. For all of you that supported the JSF over F-22...

May 19, 2010 : Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Date of scheduled hearing. SD-366. 9:30 a.m. I'll have more time after everyon...

Hydrogen would command a key role in future renewable energy technologies, experts agree, if a relatively cheap, efficient and carbon-neutra...

It doth suck. We were all sick. The kids the worst and then Lyuda. I am too but someone had to be up and taking care of the family.

(image credit: Mihai Dumbrav) In 1895, the sister of an eccentric palaeontologist called Franz Baron Nopcsa discovered small dinosaur bones...