Ornithocheirus

Right, this is ornithocheirus one of the largest known pterosaurs. When walking with dinosaurs made this the other larger pterosaurs were most likely not found yet but its still interesting if you'd like to learn about other pterosaurs. Thanks to BBCearth for this video. I will put some other videos on here about land dinosaurs to keep balance later on but for now, enjoy!

Rockwatch

http://www.rockwatch.org.uk/
Rockwatch is a club for young geologists interested in fossils and the earth. I have recently joined Rockwatch and they give you so much information when you join them, you get 2 magazines, a folder about the earth and fossils, a magnifier, badge, I.D card and many more items. If your a budding geologist or palaeontologist then i highly recommend joining this club. Its £10 per year for an individual and £15 for a family to join, you go on fieldtrips and meet geologists on the field. Its amazing i love this site its tells you so much so i definately recommend checking this out,
Peace out.

Dinosaur types

There are a few different types or classes of prehistoric creatures
Carnivores - dinosaurs that mainly ate meat; so other dinosaurs
Herbivores - dinosaurs that mainly ate plants like ferns or leaves
Omnivores - dinosaurs that ate a bit of both so meat and plants
Insectivores - dinosaurs that ate insects
piscivore - a dinosaur that counts as a carnivorous animal but ate mainly fish and aquatic animals

my passion

some people only concentrate on the usual prehistoric creatures, but there is one group of animals that amazes me more than others...Pterosaurs the monsters of the skies are the major creatures of my life, i abosloutlely adore them but there is one specific pterosaur that i love the most and that is the Quetzalcoatlus one of the biggest pterosaurs ever found...even though i may never be able to see a fossil of one for myself or study one i still think they are amazing. i mean the sheer size of one is jaw dropping. The Natural History Museum holds one of the largest fossil collections in the world and one special one that the heroine of palaeontology discovered Mary Anning the famous fossil hunter found the first Pterosaur to be discovered outside of germany and i admire her for showing people that girls can get down and dirty fossil hunting just as well as boys can,  she is a major part of my life i follow in her footsteps, i only have one fossil at the moment but if i ever had the chance to see other Pterosaur fossils i'd probably faint of happiness but if you enjoy dinosaurs and think thats something you could take up, go fossil hunting or try to get in touch with other palaeontologists or a geological society like i am. But i must say if i could spend even a day around fossils, study them, touch them its my dream thats why i enjoy going to the Natural History Museum because you can get so close to the fossils.

Wooly mammoth discovered in Russia

scientists and researchers have discovered a female wooly mammoth carcass in russia which they claim to have found well preserved muscle tissiue on parts of the mammoth. Unfortunately the blood subsance that they have taken from the muscle wont bring us any closer to cloning the mammoth, really blood is only a start. like other mammoths that have been found previously, the estimated 10,000 year old female  recently found among Russia's Novosibirsk Islands has kept intact all these years in the northern freeze. but its not just the mammoth discovery thats making headlines, its the peculiar liquid found around the carcass has also been making headlines.

Semyon Grigoriev of North-eastern federal university is the mammoth expert who lead the expedidtion to find the mammoth has said that he thinks the fluid around her carcass may be blood containing viable blood cells which is bringing us closer than we have ever been before to bringing back the mammoth, but we are still a long way off. no scientists can really tell what the red fluid is underneath the mammoth but if it is intact cells that can be salvaged for resarch then we would have overcome the first hurdle of cloning in the 21st century. Beth shapiro ( an ancient DNA expert at the university in california, santa cruz ) says that she is " super excited " about the discovery of the female mammoth but she also added "I don't think it's impossible that there is some blood in such a well-preserved find." but later on in the interview, despite the chances of there being intact cells she says "I strongly, strongly suspect that there will be zero intact cells in the find, regardless of whether blood is preserved." The focus on the cloning of the mammoth has distracted everyone and the press about all the useful information that the discovery is bringing science, we can start to piece together how they lived, and have accurate artists impressions to put in the history books.

        

Quetzalcoatlus

this is the skelton of the largest flying animal ever to live on earth, Quetzalcoatlus was a  pterodactyloid pterosaur estimated from the Late Cretaceous of North America and the biggest Quetzalcoatlus fossils came from an individual with an estimated wingspan as large as 15.9 meters (52.2 feet) but more recent fossils suggest to have a wingspan of about 10–11 meters (33–36 ft).  Mass estimates for the Quetzalcoatlus are very problematic because no existing species share a similar size or body plan, so far, to the quetzalcoatlus. While some studies have historically found extremely low weight for Quetzalcoatlus, as low as 70 kilograms roughly (150 lb) for a 10-meter individual specimen, more fossils that have been found and have been published since the 2000s have been higher, around 200–250 kilograms (440–550 lb). The Skull material that has been collected throughout past years (from the unnamed smaller species that have not been found much) shows that Quetzalcoatlus probably had a very sharp and pointed beak for its feeding habits, contrary to some earlier reconstructions that showed a les sharp snout (beak), based on the jaw material from another pterosaur species, possibly a tapejarid or a fossil related to Tupuxuara. A skull crest was present on the Quetzalcoatlus but its exact form and size are still unknown to science but it was most likely used for displays to the other gender during mating season or maybe other reasons, like the fact that Quetzalcoatlus was a glider and didn't use its wings often only for take off which was also difficult because of its weight so it wasnt very graceful on the ground since it was the same height as a giraffe and easily ate other smaller dinosaurs as its general diet and in the air was roughly the same size as a small plane.