Archiv der Kategorie: Paläontologie

Visiting Historyland Part I: The Southern Mammoth

Publiziert am 20. November 2023 von Markus Bühler

Earlier this year, I made a trip to the Netherlands. One of my points of interest was Historyland in Hellevoetsluis, which is located western of Rotterdam. Historyland is an educational theme park which mainly focuses on different historic subjects, from … Weiterlesen →

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Fossil treasures of Messel Pit part II: Crocs and gators

Publiziert am 14. Juni 2020 von Markus Bühler

The fauna of the area which would later become the Messel pit was quite rich in crocs. Some of them strongly resembled modern crocodylians, but some of them were oddballs which differed strongly from any extant species. The biggest crocodylian … Weiterlesen →

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Fossil treasures of Messel pit part I: Fish

Publiziert am 22. Mai 2020 von Markus Bühler

The Messel pit is one of the most spectacular fossil sites of the world. It gives us an incredible insight into a subtropical ecosystem from the Eocene, about 47 million years ago. The special conditions of this Lagerstätte did not … Weiterlesen →

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Reconstructing Basilosaurus, the cetacean Sea Serpent

Publiziert am 1. Februar 2019 von Markus Bühler

Basilosaurus was just big in the news when a new study about its feeding habits and the predation on young Dorudons was published. This is probably a good time to feature a new reconstruction of the „king lizard“ that I … Weiterlesen →

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A Steneosaurus leg with fossilized skin

Publiziert am 17. Januar 2019 von Markus Bühler

It is well known that there are a lot of wonderfully preserved ichthyosaur fossils with skin impressions, especially from the famous Posidonia shale of Holzmaden. But it is much lesser known that there are also some soft tissue impressions of … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Krokodile/Crocodylians, Paläontologie, Reptilien | 2 Kommentare

Picture of the Day: Mammalodon vs. giant Nautilid

Publiziert am 17. Dezember 2018 von Markus Bühler

Today I want to feature some paleoart by Dominic Grabowski, which depicts the archaic stem-baleen whale Mammalodon attacking one of those awesome but little-known giant post-creataceous nautilids. I feel really honoured that this was directly inspired by my recent blogpost … Weiterlesen →

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The amazing Nautilid Diversity of the Post-Cretaceous Seas

Publiziert am 24. Oktober 2018 von Markus Bühler

The modern nautilus is usually seen as some sort of archaic relic from an ancient era, unaffected by the changes of time. They are often considered as an anachronistic remnant of an age when the seas were populated by marine … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Cephalopoden, Paläontologie, Populäre Irrtümer | Schreib einen Kommentar

A new model of Meyerasaurus – or how to bodypaint a plesiosaur

Publiziert am 12. September 2018 von Markus Bühler

Today I wanted to show you some photos of a life-sized model of Meyerasaurus, a rhomaleosaurid from the Toracian stage of the early Jurassic, whose fossils were found at Holzmaden. The model was made by my friends from kamyk.pl, a … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Evolution, Fische, Haie und andere Knorpelfische, Paläontologie, Skulpturen, Wale | 2 Kommentare

The bearded Leviathan – not your everyday Basilosaurus

Publiziert am 2. Mai 2018 von Markus Bühler

Basilosaurus – the great mammalian leviathan of the Eocene – was beyond doubt one of the most spectacular creatures which ever swam the oceans of the world.  But despite the fact that fossils of this ancient cetacean have been known … Weiterlesen →

Veröffentlicht unter Paläontologie, Populäre Irrtümer, Säugetiere, Wale | Schreib einen Kommentar

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 →

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