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Some Questions About Dinosaur Feet

April 17, 2017

Who could have predicted the latest revision of dinosaur phylogeny? It turns out that the answer may have been literally under the dinosaurs' noses--to say nothing of the rest of their bodies--the whole time.

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In Leonard Finkelman, Thoughts Tags Ornithoscelida, trace fossils, fossils, ichnology, dinosaurs

The Unspecific Unicorn

April 25, 2016

Have paleontologists discovered real unicorns among Siberian fossils? Let's turn to ichnology--the study of fossil footprints--to find the answer.

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In Leonard Finkelman, Thoughts Tags taxonomy, parataxonomy, ichnology, unicorn

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