Field Dispatches.
Half dev log, half field journal. We're building PaleoDex in the open and digging into the real fossil record — the science, the data, and the prehistoric life that doesn't get enough screen time. Sourced, bilingual, and never invented.
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Paleoflora: the forests that fed the giants
Coal, continental drift, Darwin's mystery — the overlooked science of ancient plants.
Coprolites: the serious science of fossil poop
Diet, behavior, even rewriting when grass evolved — what fossilized dung reveals.
Jurassic Park vs the fossil record
What the movies got wrong, what they got right — and the one invention we can't stand.
Field Log 001: building a real-fossil app from Chile
Why PaleoDex refuses to invent a single creature — the origin story.
Every creature in PaleoDex really existed
What 'real data' actually means, and why we leave blanks instead of guessing.
The Ice Age giants beneath Santiago
Notiomastodon, Megatherium and Hippidion — the megafauna under your feet.
Coming soon
Chile keeps finding giants
From the titanosaur Arackar to the Atacama whale graveyard.
What 1.8 million fossils tell us about where life is buried
A data story only our catalogue can tell.
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