Back in October 2019, the North Dakota Geological Survey’s Paleontological Resource Protection Program (@NDGSPaleo) tweeted out a picture that sent…
Header Image: James St. John, Flickr. CC BY 2.0 Come on–you know what I’m all about. If you’ve been following…
Why, hello dear readers! Welcome to a fun new segment of Rex Machina I’m calling Nick’s Paleo Adventures. I thought…
Bird eggs are an astounding evolutionary phenomenon. They come in a wide array of sizes, shapes, and colors; in fact,…
There’s this long-standing idea that Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s Founding Fathers, had a soft spot for turkeys. So much…
Yes, there is a bias in the fossil record. We may have millions of specimens from across the geologic timescale,…
Our souls, dependent upon / their / nurture, now shrink, wizened. / Our minds, formed / and informed by their /…
I bet you’re thinking to yourself: really, another Rex Machina post on spinosaurs? Doesn’t this topic get old? Look guys, I can’t…
Quick–tell me what a dinosaur is! Well, you can’t exactly tell me, but take a second to picture a dinosaur…
What’s the coolest shark you can think of? The weirdest? The most fascinating? Chances are, you’re listing in your head…