The Boneyard #19 is online at Familiarity Breeds Content, and Laelaps has something special planned for the 20th edition of this paleo-carnival.
And check out the seventh installment of Linneaus’ Legacy, over at The Ethical Palaeontologist.
The lucky thirteenth edition of The Boneyard, a bi-weekly collection of paleo-themed blog posts, is up at Greg Laden’s Blog.
From the illustration blog Drawn! comes word of The Daily Mammal, a blog where Jennifer Rae Atkins posts an original drawing of a different mammal every day. At this rate, she estimates she’ll make her way through all 5,000 or so species of living mammal in about 14 years.
This Saturday, she’ll make serious headway towards that goal by drawing 24 mammals in 24 hours as a fundraiser for Defenders of Wildlife. Donate at least $25, pick a mammal, and Jennifer will add it to her schedule on December 22. And she’ll send you the drawing! Support art, wildlife, and mammalian diversity all in one fell swoop. Not too shabby.
A few paleontology posts of note have sprung up within the past 24 hours or so…
Laelaps takes a look at pachycephalosaurs, and the possibility that three named genera of these thick-headed dinosaurs might actually represent three growth stages of a single species.
Zach reviews the Troödontidae, which paleontologists suspect filled the niche of the skinny, brainy outcasts compared to their more popular dromaeosaur cousins.
And Amanda shows off a few stunning works-in-progress at the Self-Designed Student household: a lovely Triceratops skeleton, and the “Pteranodon jeebus,” a fantastic paleo-icon sure to inspire praise among the fossiliferous faithful.
Coming up on the National Geographic Channel this weekend are a couple of dinosaur documentaries, including “Dino Death Trap,” highlighting Jurassic discoveries from China’s Junggar Basin (including the crested tyrannosauroid Guanlong, pictured above). Next in the lineup is “Dino Autopsy,” focusing on what information can be gleaned from the 67,000,000 year-old corpse of Dakota, the hadrosaur mummy who’s been all over the papers of late.
The National Geographic Channel has put a ton of effort into online marketing for these programs, ranging from the silly (dinocentralpark.com, where you get the simulated experience of unleashing a Jurassic roar at unsuspecting passersby) to fairly informational, such as the 3-D Dino Death Trap viewer (scroll down for the link to launch it), which introduces some of the Junggar Basin’s unique paleofauna (toothless, two-fingered ceratosaur?). I must admit, however, most my time on the site was spent trying to uncover theropod bones in the Taipei-style Fossil Hunt game.