This week we will be checking out a really cool, specialized reptile from the Triassic.  Get a load of Placodus gigas ! Placodus was a ma...

This week we will be checking out a newly described giant pterosaur.  Check out Cryodrakon boreas ! Cryodrakon was a large pterosaur, a f...

Here at Prehistoric Beast of the Week, I do my best to cover a different prehistoric animal each week (or as close as I can get to each week...

Melanie During is a vertebrate paleontologist, currently employed as a research assistant at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is Dutch and...

This week we will be looking at an unusual theropod that earned the nickname, "Pinocchio rex".  Check out Qianzhousaurus sinensis ...

This week we will be looking at a newly discovered dinosaur that also breaks a few records!  Let's check out Adratiklit boulahfa ! Adr...

As you may have known from my facebook, instagram, or Twitter, I had the honor and privilege of working for the Academy of Natural Sciences ...