Archiv des Autors: Markus Bühler

Fossil of the day: Gnarly wooly rhino skull

Publiziert am 30. April 2017 von Markus Bühler

For today I have just a short fossil-of-the-day-post. It´s a close-up of the nasal and frontal area of of a wooly rhino´s skull from the Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz (natural history museum Mainz). You can see very well the highly textured … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Megafauna, Paläontologie, Säugetiere | Schreib einen Kommentar

In search of the black hell adder

Publiziert am 15. März 2017 von Markus Bühler

Today I made an excursion to the northern Black Forest, with a vague hope to see a common European adder (Vipera berus). This is one of the few remaining areas here around which still has a somewhat bigger population of … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Naturbeobachtungen, Reptilien | 3 Kommentare

The spiny wing quills of the cassowary

Publiziert am 12. März 2017 von Markus Bühler

Cassowaries are unusual and weird by nearly every standard, but the general focus is mainly on their flamboyant heads and necks and their formidable foot claws. But there is just so much more noteworthy about them. For example their extraordinaire … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Vögel | Schreib einen Kommentar

A possible case of tail autophagy observed in Lilford’s wall lizard on Dragonera

Publiziert am 18. Februar 2017 von Markus Bühler

In 2014, I made a trip to Dragonera, a small island off the west coast of Majorca. My main focus was to see the endemic variant of Lilford´s wall lizards, Podarcis lilfordi ssp. giglioli, which populates this island. Among the … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Naturbeobachtungen, Reptilien | Schreib einen Kommentar

No guts, no glory – Nanuqsaurus feeding giant petrel style

Publiziert am 21. Januar 2017 von Markus Bühler

In the sequel of the last post about the table manners of living and prehistoric carnivores and their depictions in paleoart, I post today a portrayal of Nanuqsaurus feeding on a mosasaur carcass by Joschua Knüppe (take a look at … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Dinosaurier, Paläontologie | Schreib einen Kommentar

Don´t forget the blood and guts – for the sake of badass feathered theropods

Publiziert am 26. Dezember 2016 von Markus Bühler

Feathered theropods have some issues. A lot of people just don´t like them. Movies like  „Jurassic World“ have also shown that the mere idea of theropods being mainly covered in some sort of feathers or filaments is still far away … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Dinosaurier, Paläontologie, Populäre Irrtümer, Vögel | 3 Kommentare

A natural crystal skull

Publiziert am 22. Dezember 2016 von Markus Bühler

Some time ago I visited the mineral exhibition at the museum „Welt der Kristalle“ near Rottweil. Besides a lot of really fascinating crystals and minerals and some nice fossils was a really bizarre object on exhibit, a ram skull fully … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Bild des Tages | Schreib einen Kommentar

A herring in the wolf´s clothing

Publiziert am 18. November 2016 von Markus Bühler

Today´s blogpost features another fish skull, this time a much smaller but yet pretty impressive one, which nearly looks like a miniature version of the giant cretaceous Xiphactinus. It belongs to a dorab wolf hering (Chirocentrus dorab), a member of … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Fische, Paläontologie | Schreib einen Kommentar

Relics of a River Monster

Publiziert am 13. November 2016 von Markus Bühler

Yesterday I had a great day visiting the Museum für Naturkunde at Schloss Rosenstein, Stuttgart, and later also the nearby Wilhelma Zoo. There was a special exhibition at the museum with a lot of specimens which are usually not on … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Anatomie, Bild des Tages, Fische, Museen | Schreib einen Kommentar

Fossil of the day: Pelagosaurus typus with fatal jaw fracture

Publiziert am 13. Oktober 2016 von Markus Bühler

Today I visited the fossil museum at Dotternhausen, which exhibits nearly exclusively fossils found in the surrounding area. It is located in the Swabian Alps, an area which is famous for various fossil deposits, especially for ammonites and other marine … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Paläontologie, Reptilien | Schreib einen Kommentar