The Dinosaur Toy Blog.

Link.  It does what it says, it says what it does.

Martian trilobites, crinoids, and seashells.

This guy sees them in NASA’s pictures.  e.g.

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B. W. Hawkins, early paleoartist.

Artist Nemo Ramjet wrote an informative blog post about Hawkins, including pictures he took of Hawkins’ pictures.

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Bugs in opaque amber.

We can’t see ‘em, but now we can tomogrify ‘em.

We can even print them.

See also Science Daily, paleoblog.

Mid-Cambrian Morning

A nice web comic by Rosemary Mosco with many of my favorite cambrian critters. Bonus points for having the Opabinia’s name be Steve.

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Comes with an informative dramatis personae.

See also Evolution Sucks.

Thanks for the hot tip, Rafi.

Old school paleocritter trading cards.

Apparently manufactured by Waddingtons in the eighties.

Atlas of Creation by Harun Yahya

I am insanely jealous of Ainsley, who now owns the Atlas of Creation. Most of the book is juxtapositions of bad pictures of fossils with bad pictures of conordinal living things (fossil fern, living fern; fossil bunny, living bunny; fossil fly, living fly) alongside the erroneous claim that there are no differences between the extinct and extant forms. Anyway, here’s his example of a living caddisfly:

It’s a fishing lure. He stole the image from Graham Owen, from whom he also stole this:

…which he believes is a living spider. A few pages earlier, he juxtaposes a fossil scolytid with a living pentatomid, saying that the living pentatomid and the 25 myo scolytid are exactly the same thing.

Make sure you click through and look at Graham Owen’s fishing lures, they’re worth it. My fave is the solpugid.

Speaking of Eurypterids…

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Originally uploaded by Ayla Sunshine

Trilobite by Josh Frankel, great wordless minicomic for 4 bucks

A day in the life of a widdul cambweean twiwobite, pictured above in a defensive posture due to attempted predation by Sanctacaris.   Best four bucks I’ve spent since a new LP was $3.99.  Geblogkt elsewhere.  See also more comics by Frankel.

That’s a big eurypterid.