Comments on: Book review – Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils

By: Book review – A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:24:15 +0000

[…] or the morphological adaptations to different diets), he also covers the wonderful research on trace fossils such as fossil trackways or coprolites, and research that reconstructs behaviour. I want to […]

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By: Book review – The Trilobite Collector’s Guide | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:59:17 +0000

[…] on different continents is a key observation in support of plate tectonics. Another theme is the fossilised evidence of behaviour such as enrollment, traces of predation, the famous conga-line of trilobites on the march, and […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:50:24 +0000

[…] behaviour has come up previously on this blog. Locked in Time, also illustrated by Bob Nicholls, featured 50 vignettes of famous fossils, while Dinosaurs Without […]

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By: Book review – Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:39:07 +0000

[…] one of the most amazing fossils: a large log covered by crinoids that I first encountered in Locked in Time. Though they superficially resemble flowers, crinoids are actually echinoderms that spend a large […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaurs – 10 Things You Should Know: 230 Million Years for People Short on Time | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:49:18 +0000

[…] knowledge. And though he discusses fossil evidence of behaviour, the subject of his previous book Locked in Time, he avoids the easy option of rehashing material from that […]

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By: Book review – Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:50:53 +0000

[…] diets, while oxygen isotopes are useful for reconstructing past climate. Trace fossils can reveal past behaviour and Smith discusses unusual examples. The spores of Sporormiella fungi growing on animal dung are […]

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By: Book review – Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:10:27 +0000

[…] Thus, there is a chapter on soft-tissue preservation at the microscopic level, think cells or blood vessels, in dinosaur and other tetrapod bones. Is this original material or biofilm produced by bone-degrading bacteria? I remember this discussion making news headlines a few years ago. A review of studies so far concludes that the evidence points towards the former. Another chapter looks at the fossilisation of reproduction-related tissues and structures in avian dinosaurs and birds, and what analytical methods you could use to detect them. So far we have found evidence of e.g. ovarian follicles, shell membranes, eggshell pigmentation, and medullary bone (this is incidentally the same study that Lomax referenced in Locked in Time). […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:13:46 +0000

[…] previous book, though I did not intend to wait this long. Having just reviewed Lomax’s book Locked in Time, now was the right time to make up for […]

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