Boneyard: Encounters with Ancient Animals

The 20th Boneyard is up at Laelaps:

What I saw on that Delaware beach was an interaction that has been going on for tens (if not hundreds) of millions of years. I tried to imagine the body of a large mosasaur washed up on the beach, seagulls picking away at the tattered flesh of its side while snails almost imperceptibly crawling into the gaping holes of the carcass to feast inside. Thankfully I cannot imagine odors, but I could not help but admire that the same processes preserved in the Cretaceous greensand were still at work in the world today.

My interactions with the gastropods and Limulus on the shore pale in comparison to the interactions other bloggers have been having with ancient life, however...

An unusual Boneyard - lots of good stuff. Check it out - especially David of paleomammalsonline finding out that it's harder to avoid mammoths than find them in the first place, Emilie of The World We Don't Live In's encounter with Lucy, and Traumador the Tyrannosaur's first date with Lilian!