I've just finished reading Matthew Martyniuk's Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and other Winged Dinosaurs . I can't recommend it enough. Apart from focusing on almost unheard of Jurassic-Cretaceous birds which are usually overshadowed by their larger cousins, his chapter on dromaeosaurs (raptors) is m...

For the record, Lipleurodon was not a dinosaur. The prehistoric marine reptiles were all more closely related to lizards and snakes than they were to arcosaurs (crocodiles and dinosaurs/birds). I've had a re-newed interest in dinosaurs ever since finding out that birds basically are dinosaurs. Not r...

Celestial-Howl wrote:They are not native there, nor are the moose. But if there are no wolves there, the moose will destroy the Isle.

Let's get rid of the moose then.

I don't see why we should, considering wolves don't appear to be even native there. They only colonised the area in the 1940s. It's not like Yellowstone, where wolves always lived.

Skybreaker wrote:You know what I'm thinking....
dragon

Don't get your hopes up. It was the size of a pigeon.

You want a real dragon? Look up the new findings on Spinosaurus. It was like Nessie on steroids with scythe-claws.

duskypack wrote:They should be called something like 'Maned Canids' or Maned Dogs, since there is an African Wild Dog.

I disagree. It should be given a name derived from one of the languages of the people it lives alongside, just like the prairie wolf was later called "coyote" from an Aztec word.

Is it a bird? Is it a bat? Meet Yi qi, the dinosaur that is sort of both Incredible new find from China has both feathers and bat-like wings Researchers today announced the discovery of a stunning new dinosaur fossil: a glider with wings similar to both birds and bats. It has been named Yi qi (mean...

kitten2258 wrote:i personaly would help it and bring it to proper health and set it free after 1 month but this is my opinoin

Good luck finding the right milk formula.

Plenty. I hunt squirrels, rabbits and pheasants (to eat, don't worry).

One thing that annoys me about Komodos is that many people think they are like dinosaurs, when in fact birds are far more closely related to dinosaurs than any lizard is (indeed, birds are actual dinosaurs).

As long-time readers know, I am a bit of a skeptic when it comes to the taxonomic validity of the red wolf. This is particularly true when the only genome-wide analysis of wolves and coyotes in North America revealed that the creatures being conserved as red wolves were actually coyote/wolf hybrids...

When all's said and done, the social structure of wolves is identical to that of other Canis . Wolves, coyotes and jackals all live in family groups dominated by the parents, the only real differences are the degree with which they stay together. Wolves for example stick together more than coyotes a...

Scientists make this classification thing so complicated, they say that the Florida Black Wolf (an extinct species of wolf) was just a black variation of the red wolf. But female FBWs had a white, heart-shaped marking on their chests, but Red Wolves don't, so how do you explain that? Fur colour is ...

By the way, my favorite species of wolf would be the red wolf, I don't believe that they're coyote/wolf mixes, in my book, they're wolves! Even if they are a distinct species, their closest relatives are still coyotes, as they diverged from coyotes 150,000 years ago, whereas the common ancestor of ...

I think it goes without saying that this is very graphic material, and may be unsuitable for people with sensitive dispositions. I myself think it provides insight into a process which is usually edited out of mainstream nature documentaries.