Could someone recommend me a good book about paleo-botany (extinct/fossil plants)?
I am looking for a book that aside from names and descriptions preferably has both pictures of fossils of the plants and pictures of paleo-art/restorations of what the plant (might have) looked like when alive.
Any help/suggestions would be really appreciated.

This is just an odd question that popped into my head today. I volunteer at the Burke Museum in Seattle, WA, which has the only dinosaur fossil found in the state, the Suciasaurus. Mind you, it’s just the tip of the left femur, so everything about it is understandably vague and tenuous beyond it being a “small” tyrannosaurid.

Which makes me wonder, ball park guesstimates, how many dinosaurs are we mostly guessing at? For every T Rex and Triceratops (and let’s set aside the debates about Torosaurus v. Trike or nanotyrannus) that we have solid evidence for, how many are just… vague?

Good box/ stand where I can keep my fossils safe and can look at them?

I was just wondering if thid was a good deal, bought it for 80 pounds, weights 4.2 kilos

I was walking along a dried up river bed in Middle Tennessee and stumbled across this unusual "rock". It caught my eye due to the curvature and color variation. After I picked it up and washed it off, I was blown away at the resemblance of what looks to be a large bone. I'm looking for any input from people with far more knowledge than me. It is dense, fossilized, and top to bottom about the size of maybe a tennis ball. Is this a bone? Prehistoric?

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Found this on ebay for 350 euro, it's 90 mm long

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The Megamouth shark is much older than the Meg but it still survived today. So why did the Meg die out?

And another hypothetical side quesion: If it were alive today, would humans have cause it to be listed as endangered species because of attacks on humans?

I would like the invites for Theropoda and any discord servers on Prehistoric Marine Life please.

Megalodon

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My husbands friend found this on a ranch he lives in near Hesperus, Colorado. Is it a dinosaur foot print? My hand is in there for scale.

Proud to announce that my short story collection, Prehistoric Wild: Life in the Mesozoic, has been updated with it's 26th entry. Called "The Shadow of Drought," it takes place in the Tendaguru Formation of Late Jurassic Tanzania, 152 million years ago. In it, a group of otherwise nomadic Kentrosaurus are forced together in search for water in the midst of the dry season. This is one I had in mind for a while, but became important due to recent events surrounding it. I started it roughly when my grandpa was admitted to the hospital. Since I didn't know how time he'd have left given his condition, I decided to dedicate this story to his memory, even naming one of the Kentrosaurus after a Tanzian name that seemed to be the closest to that of my grandpa. Sadly, he has passed away yesterday morning at the time of me writing this. So, it will mean a lot to hear what ya'll end up thinking of it. https://www.wattpad.com/1475893717-prehistoric-wild-life-in-the-mesozoic-the-shadow

If that was the case, I guess extinction of Torvo led one group of Allosaurs to gigantism .

I just bought a T.Rex tooth and want to turn it into a necklace pendant it is 0.79 inches. Any Advice

So we know for a fact that dinosaurs definitely didn't roar like in Jurassic world,

If this was the case, and they were primitive birds, v do they make a chirping sound instead?

Obviously, the chirping sound would be much lower pitched since dinosaurs are gigantic, butv if we were able to go back in time, should I expect to hear T-Rexes chirping like some sort of giant blue jays

By untouchable i mean not preyed on, such as some titanosaurs

Thanks to the discovery of Inabtanin alarabia, we now that at least 2 pterosaurs lived on islands of Middle East, and as well as Arambourgiania Philadelphia. But I wonder if any abelisaur or tryannosaur that have yet to be found made it those islands and roamed as top terrestrial predator? If not, then the terrestrial top predator title of L. Cretaceous Arabia would could to Arambourgiania or any other giant Azdarchid that have not been discovered yet.

My son is a huge trilobite fan. He's sad they are all gone. We talked about how they disappeared from the fossil record and we've found none alive so we think they are extinct. He said "what if they all swam away, someone might have lived" and I asked myself the above question. I know that basically all seafloor today is newer than trilobites, and that it's unlikely they are around for several reasons. However, from my understanding as well, that deep deep sea has an absolutely terrible fossil record and that we have explored is an unbelievably small part of the sea floor. Is there even the most remote chance that some weird deep sea trilobite made it past their mass extinction?

I bought it at a scienze museum a while back