Who would win in a fight between a shark and a pterosaur? Only kidding, we're not that kind of blog. However, in September of last year a paper was published that inevitably generated a lot of headlines not too unlike this one. The find in question was a finger bone from a pterosaur and it... Continue Reading →
Archaeology can be complicated. Sometimes you get beautifully stratified layers of remains making it easy to determine exactly what happened and when. And then sometimes you get a situation like that at Roopkund lake. By lake standards Roopkund is small, only around 40m across and it is buried high in the Himalayan mountains, more than... Continue Reading →
Around 300 million years ago the very first vertebrates made their way from the seas onto the land. They weren’t the first animals to make the transition, insects had beaten them to it several million years before, but they were the first animals with a backbone to make the evolutionary leap and at least one... Continue Reading →
