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Oblivious sauropods being eaten, part 2: Bakker's snoozing brontosaur3 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 1 week ago: From The Dinosaur Heresies. Part 1. … more →

Tags: Art, brontosaurus, diplodocids, goofy, predation, stinkin' mammals, tails

Crazy pneumatic ostrich caudal2 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 1 month ago: This is a caudal vertebra from the middle of the tail of an ostrich, LACM Bj342: The middle row show … more →

Tags: ostrich

Night at the Museum: LACM's Camp Dino16 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 1 month ago: Last night London and I spent the night in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), … more →

Tags: Argentinosaurus, diplodocids, dorsal, field photos, LACM, mamenchisaur, Mounts, Museums, Public Galleries

How I started to learn the neighborhood of the brain

alexandrahh13 wrote 6 months ago: One of the ways I try to understand science is by using a technique I learned in high school, from m … more →

Tags: Writing Prompts, frontal lobe, ventral, Learning, dorsal, spinal cordbrain, atoms, contralateral, ipselateral

Mejorar el factor de utilización de los recursos locales de agua mientras se materializa un nuevo trasvase de la cuenca del Mantaro

Ernesto Maisch Guevara wrote 8 months ago: PDF: Mejorar el factor de utilización de los recursos locales de agua mientras se materializa un nue … more →

Tags: Agua, Cuenca, TRASVASE, Recursos, ESTIAJE, Embalse

Hot sauropod news, part 1: rampant pneumaticity in saltasaurines1 comment

Matt Wedel wrote 10 months ago: Caudal pneumaticity in saltasaurines. Cerda et al. (2012: fig. 1). Earlier this month I was amazed t … more →

Tags: Coracoid, cross sections, diplodocids, Diplodocus, Ilium, Neuquensaurus, pneumaticity, Rocasaurus, Saltasaurus

Neural spine bifurcation in sauropods, Part 3: the evidence from ontogenetic series11 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 1 year ago: This is the third post in a series on neural spine bifurcation in sauropods, inspired by Woodruff an … more →

Tags: Apatosaurus, camarasaurs, cervical, diplodocids, Diplodocus, dorsal, Juvenile, neural spine

Necks, I win; tails, Wedel loses --or-- The SV-POW! Palaeo Paper Challenge3 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 1 year ago: This year, I missed The Paleo Paper Challenge over on Archosaur Musings — it was one of hundre … more →

Tags: brachiosaurs, cervical, I'm stupid, necks, paleontologists behaving badly, papers by SV-POW!sketeers, tails, the archbishop

Band Aid Butt Crack4 comments

sporkfight wrote 1 year ago: This morning, very early in the morning, my husband and I arrived at the surgery center to have my c … more →

Tags: Endo, Surgery, Hysterectomy & Procedures, what they don't tell you, Endometriosis, nerve block, epidural

Dorsoventral vs. Septotemporal hippocampus

Luka Tomšič Ahčin wrote 2 years ago: Everybody knows what the hippocampus is for: memory. And…maybe something about anxiety or depression … more →

Tags: Neuroanatomy, Neuroscience, brain, Depression, Memory, hippocampus, Amaral, Anatomy, bannerman

The Shunosaurus tail-club, revisited: spikes, and complex distal caudals13 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 2 years ago: In a comment on the initial Shunosaurus tail-club post, Jaime Headden pointed out the passage in the … more →

Tags: Fusion, thagomizer, Shunosaurus, monitor lizards

I only just realised ... the draft Phylocode does not recognise electronic publication!14 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 2 years ago: A comment by Charles Epting on the recent article about self-publication led me to check the relevan … more →

Tags: Nomenclature, Shiny digital future, Rapetosaurus

What’s the deal with your wacky tail-club, Shunosaurus?15 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 2 years ago: In a comment on an earlier article, What’s the deal with your wacky postparapophyses, Shunosaurus?, … more →

Tags: mamenchisaur, Fusion, skeletal reconstructions, thagomizer, Shunosaurus, Sino-pods

Mamenchisaurus tail club, again21 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 3 years ago: In color, this time, with multiple views, thanks to Xing et al. (2009). They also did a finite eleme … more →

Tags: mamenchisaur, Fusion, thagomizer, Sino-pods

Tornieria caudals10 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 3 years ago: For various arcane reasons, the SV-POW!sketeers are all neck-deep in work, so the blog may actually … more →

Tags: diplodocids, pneumaticity, Tornieria

Arterial Blood Supply to the Brain 3 comments

James wrote 3 years ago: Introduction Compared to other tissues, the brain is extremely dependent on a stable and efficient b … more →

Tags: Neuroscience, Blood+, arterial, Supply, brain, Barrier, regulation, ventral, dorsal

EEK! Is that a lizard ... or a snake?

Candace M Hansen wrote 3 years ago: Just when you think you’ve got the world figured out, nature throws a curve ball. When you loo … more →

Tags: General Interest, autotomy, Legless Lizards

How big were the biggest sauropod trackmakers?22 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 3 years ago: UPDATE December 3, 2009 I screwed up, seriously. Tony Thulborn writes in a comment below to correct … more →

Tags: brachiosaurs, cervical, COLLECTIONS, Giraffatitan, Math, Mounts, MyDD, Size, Tracks

Electronic publishing is inevitable and even the ICZN is beginning to accept it17 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 3 years ago: After a completely barren 2008, this year is turning out to be a good one for me in terms of publica … more →

Tags: cervical, dorsal, Nigersaurus, Nomenclature, open access, papers by SV-POW!sketeers, rants, Shiny digital future, the archbishop


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