THE MYTH OF MEGALODON
My last blog post, Megalodon, history's mightiest scavenger? caused so much of a stir that I felt it required a revisit. First, let me address the more vocal of naysayers…
Carcharodon megalodon feeds on a dead sperm whale.
MEGALODON: HISTORY’S MIGHTIEST . . . SCAVENGER?
Otodus megalodon (formerly Carcharocles megalodon, and before that Carcharodon megalodon) was history’s largest known carnivorous fish – an enormous mackerel shark that lived from the early Miocene to the end…
KILLER COUSINS OF THE CRETACEOUS
These reconstructions of the two known Kronosaurus species (K. queenslandicus and K. boyacensis) demonstrate the tremendous variances between these killer cousins of the Cretaceous Period. Although the upper size limit…
ELASMOSAURUS: Not the featherweight they claim.
So far, paleontology-wise, I’ve delved into and presented my personal (and at times groundbreaking) theories on the functionality of long necks on plesiosaurs (and how they used these lengthy appendages…
Book Review: KRONOS RISING: KRAKEN (vol. 1)
With Michael Crichton passing, Steve Alten, author of the popular Meg franchise, has enjoyed something of a monopoly since 1997. This changed in 2014 with the emergence of Max Hawthorne‘s Kronos Rising…
