More exciting archaeological news for you. National Geographic features this report and photo of an amazingly life-like recreation of the young ruler of Ancient Egypt. Photograph: Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt, and National Geographic Society, 2005 Based on an earlier CT Scan of the boy king’s mummy, Paris-based forensic sculptor Elisabeth Daynès created a silicon-skinned [...]
Head over to Palaeoblog for Part 6 of Steve R. Bissette’s The Paleo Path: The History of Dino-Comics. This week’s feature is the Classics Illustrated series. As usual, Steve and Michael have dug up some nice artwork to compliment the article.
Just a reminder that the latest (Part 5) History of Dinosaur Comics has been posted at Palaeoblog. Part 5 continues the focus on the Turok: Son of Stone comics. Steve R. Bissette and Michael Ryan are really providing us with an excellent comic book history of the beasts that once roamed the planet. Even as [...]
The History of Dinosaur Comics continues over at Palaeblog. Read Part 3 (featuring Tarzan and The Land Unknown) here and Part 4 (featuring segment 1 of 2 on Turok: Son of Stone) here.
Palaeoblog recently posted Steve R. Bissette’s The Paleo Path: The History of Dino-Comics – Part 2. A continuing series on Dinosaurs in Comics that’s well worth the read whether your a professional palaeontologist, amateur dinosaur digger, or comic book connoisseur.
If you’re into dinosaurs, make sure to check out Steve R. Bissette’s The Paleo Path: The History of Dino-Comics – Part 1 over at PALAEOBLOG. Sure to be an informative multi-part series, it may reveal some of the illustrated adventures you’ve been missing!
Congratulations goes out to our good friend, Dr. Philip Currie, one of the world’s leading Palaeontologists. Starting October 1, Dr. Currie will become a professor with the University of Alberta’s Palaeontology program, here in Edmonton. Along with his many accolades, Currie was recently chosen as one of three Canadians to receive the 2004 Michael Smith [...]
Recent CT scans performed by Dr. Zahi Hawass and his research team seem to conclude that the 19-year-old ruler of Egypt, King Tutankhamun, was not murdered violently. A blow to the back of the head had been suggested as one possible cause due to findings in X-rays performed in 1968 and 1978 which showed a [...]
Not quite Minority Report, The Time Machine, or Back to the Future but certainly intriguing. Check out this link. More on the project can be found here. For the skeptics, this article, with one of the project members dismisses the prediction notions. As suggested by some, if the ‘device’ can’t provide any usable information before [...]
I’d like to congratulate my good friend, Dr. Michael J. Ryan on his new role as Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology with the prestigious Cleveland Museum of Natural History. In addition to his experience with the world-renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum, Ryan has travelled extensively around the globe exploring fossilized dinosaur remains and has been published in [...]
Thanks to Dean for these links. I bet you didn’t know Sunfish could grow this large! Monster washes up near Farewell Spit More photos of an Ocean Sunfish
More Dinosaur news for you. Like some that once roamed Alberta, the remains are believed to be that of a Hadrosaur and possibly even a new species. Dinosaur Remains Found In Korea
That’s right. Dinosaurs were in the Canadian High Arctic. CBC News: Dinosaur fossils shows Arctic’s Jurassic age The original press release can be found here. There’s also a link in the press release with more about the discoverer, Hans Larsson.
If you have a passion for movies, ancient cultures, and ‘rare antiquities’, then like myself, there’s a good chance you’re a fan of Indiana Jones. As was the case with Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, Indy was a hero I would pretend to be as a young boy – grabbing a pocket-filled jacket, my mom’s old [...]
