Showing posts with label Sabertooth cat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sabertooth cat. Show all posts
Monday, November 8, 2021

"What We Find Belongs to the Public Domain of Science": The Boy Paleontologists and the Irvingtonian Land Mammal Stage

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  Mission Peak from the Sabercat Trail in Fremont, California I can just hear the script writers arguing about one of the scenes in an India...
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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Say Hello to California's New State Dinosaur: Augustynolophus morrisi

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This one really got past me. I have to admit that the whole business of establishing a California State Dinosaur flew way under my radar. Bu...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: In the Pleistocene, a Different Kind of Danger

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An Egret and Tule Elk at the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge near Los Banos The Great Valley began as a shallow sea (a forearc basin)...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: The Sea Floor that Became the Greatest Agricultural Region on Earth

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Welcome to one of the strangest places on the planet! It's the size of West Virginia, but flatter than the Mississippi River Valley...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Oh no, it's Jar Jar Binks! No, It's Far More Special Than That...

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Omigod! Somebody caught Jar Jar Binks! Okay, not really. But what the heck is this thing? Say hello to Saurolophus , our home-grown Cal...
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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Fossil Discovery Center in Madera County is Opening!

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Painting by David Douglas for the Fossil Discovery Center If you live anywhere near the geographical center of California, there is some exc...
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