Equatorial Minnesota

This week saw the end of an era in Minnesota paleontology with the passing of Bruce Erickson . Bruce had been the curator of paleontolo...

I saw the headline " Surprising Dinosaur Discovery: Ankylosaur Was Sluggish And Deaf " and was indeed surprised, not so much by...

To close out 2021, here are some stromatolites in the snow. A big stromatolitic e...

The dance of splitting and lumping will go on as long as there are two people and something to classify. On the one hand are the crea...

December 4, 2021: It's the early afternoon on one of those gray days that Minnesota churns out from about the time the leaf show i...

Almost exactly five years ago I posted on a visit to Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park. I was in the area and thought I'd stop a...

A couple of new non-theropod names have come down the pipe since the beginning of November, and I thought I'd cover them together. Let...