National Geographic special on bizarre dinos:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/20...nteractive.html

enjoy!

Is it just me or was the Deinocherus in the Dark Crystal?

Cooooooooool...

That's awesome, I freakin' love triceratops since forever, so my favorite is the styracosaurus.

The Carcharodontosaurus is fast becoming my favourite therapod.



well after the Albertosaurus

That page looked cool but when I clicked on the next guy, it crashed the browser.

Earliest known kangaroo:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...roo-fossil.htmlApparently they ate mushrooms.

It also appears that the evolution of the whale has been turned on its head:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...es-evolved.html


Meat eating fungus?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...-carnivore.html

Okay, now I'm freaked out!

Its not that often I learn something new. CARNIVOROUS FUNGI!! I had no idea even exsisted... is right.

very interesting but not hugely surprising - we've long suspected that whales, as mammals, must have evolved from land-faring mammals (ditto manatees and dugongs). And we still have carnivorous plants today, so the idea of carnivorous fungi isn't too far fetched.

I have grown, Pitcher Plants, Venus Fly Traps and those sticky buds. I have experience of carnivourous plants, but for the fact that a JellyFish sting left me with a fungal infection in my left foot that left me both in agony and itchy for 4 years and took 2 years to fully heal WITH THE RIGHT MEDICINE I probably wouldnt be all that freaked out about the fungi.. I thanks to that now find Jelly Fish both hauntingly beautiful AND scary beyond scary, they make me itch horribly just looking at them.

Where's that pic of Xbob when you need it?

A few tasty bites have popped up on National Geo:

1) Article on T.rex
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/anim...ml?nav=FEATURES

2) Prehistoric timeline:
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/scie...-time-line.html

3) Platypus is as old as the dinosaurs - fact:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...2-platypus.html

4) Biggest rodent ever found, the size of a bull:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...ures/index.html

5) Dino found with skin+soft tissue:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...osaur-skin.html

6) Teenage dino sex for the win!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...nosaur-sex.html

7) Fish eating dino video:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...r-video-ap.html

8) 'Hobbits' may have been mutants:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...it-disease.html

9) Top 10 dino stories of 2007:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...-dinosaurs.html

#5 is really interesting.

"missing-link" croc found

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...odile-pictures/