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How big were the biggest sauropod trackmakers?18 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 2 months ago: UPDATE December 3, 2009 I screwed up, seriously. Tony Thulborn writes in a comment below to correct … more →

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

Electronic publishing is inevitable and even the ICZN is beginning to accept it12 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 2 months 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, rants, papers by SV-POW!sketeers, open access, Nomenclature, Shiny digital future, the archbishop

"Brachiosaurus" brancai is not Brachiosaurus45 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 3 months ago: Today sees the publication of the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and with it my paper on th … more →

Tags: Brachiosaurus, brachiosaurs, dorsal, papers by SV-POW!sketeers, skeletal reconstructions, Giraffatitan

New thunder from Down Under!11 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 5 months ago: Big news today: Australia’s dinosaur fauna just got a little less depauperate. Hocknull et al. … more →

Tags: dorsal, titanosaur, stinkin' theropods

Sauropods of 2008: Tastavinsaurus9 comments

eotyrannus wrote 7 months ago: Welcome to another episode of the ground-breaking and wonderful Sauropods of 2008 series. Yay! As I’ … more →

Tags: Pleurocoelus

Sauropods of 2008: Malarguesaurus8 comments

eotyrannus wrote 8 months ago: Here’s another article in my ‘sauropods of 2008’ series. Previous entries have looked at Eomamenchis … more →

Sorting out Cetiosaurus nomenclature12 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 8 months ago: Today saw the publication of the most startlingly dull paper I’ve ever been involved in (Upchu … more →

Tags: Cetiosaurus, COLLECTIONS, dorsal, Nomenclature, papers by SV-POW!sketeers

Cetiosaurus, Pelorosaurus, Streptospondylus or maybe Iguanodon(?!) in bizarre Fused Chevrons scandal!11 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 9 months ago: We have sometimes neglected tails on SV-POW!, in favour of the more obviously charismatic charms of … more →

Tags: Wealden, COLLECTIONS, Cetiosaurus, stinkin' theropods, mystery vertebra, Fusion

A new paper, and a pneumatic hiatus at last21 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 10 months ago: I had a new paper come out today. Unofficial supplementary info here, PDF here. I would have had all … more →

Tags: Haplocanthosaurus, papers by SV-POW!sketeers, pneumaticity, Sacral, stinkin' mammals, stinkin' theropods

Ahead by a tail17 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 10 months ago: You’d think that in 100+ posts we’d be starting to exhaust the territory, but there are … more →

Tags: goofy, mamenchisaur, stinkin' heads, Fusion

Sauropods of 2008: Dongyangosaurus14 comments

eotyrannus wrote 11 months ago: So, 2008 has come and gone. Was it a good year for sauropods? In terms of new taxa, it wasn’t amazin … more →

Tags: dorsal, titanosaur

The Aerosteon saga, Part 2: Overinflation and undercitation47 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 1 year ago: In the last post I introduced Aerosteon, which has been touted as providing the first solid evidence … more →

Tags: diplodocids, stinkin' theropods, paleontologists behaving badly

The Aerosteon saga, Part 1: Introduction and background13 comments

Matt Wedel wrote 1 year ago: Pneumatic dorsal vertebrae of Aerosteon (Sereno et al. 2008:fig 7) Big news this week: Sereno et al. … more →

Tags: cervical, pneumaticity, dorsal, diplodocids, Sacral, Apatosaurus, stinkin' theropods

Another diplodocine tail16 comments

eotyrannus wrote 1 year ago: We’ve done diplodocine caudal vertebrae before but, what the hell, you can never have too many … more →

Tags: diplodocids

SV-POW! on tour: Oxford University Museum of Natural History4 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 1 year ago: It’s very rare that all three of us SV-POW!ers get together: in fact, until Tuesday this week, … more →

Tags: Cetiosaurus, goofy, Mounts, stinkin' mammals

Gilmore's adventures with diplodocine caudals8 comments

eotyrannus wrote 1 year ago: One of our great palaeontological heroes (well, one of mine anyway) is Charles Whitney Gilmore (1874 … more →

Tags: diplodocids

Wing-like transverse processes, pneumatic caudals and all that...12 comments

eotyrannus wrote 1 year ago: Just to break the stranglehold that titanosauriforms clearly have on SV-POW! (kidding), every now an … more →

Tags: pneumaticity, Mounts, diplodocids

Supersaurus -- a diplodocid that lives up to its name23 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 1 year ago: Long-time SV-POW! readers will have detected a brachiosaurid bias in our writings, and this is for a … more →

Tags: cervical, diplodocids, goofy, Size, stinkin' mammals, supersaurus

Your coccyx is contemptible34 comments

Mike Taylor wrote 1 year ago: Those of you who have been paying attention to my recent posts will have pretty much known this was … more →

Tags: Apatosaurus, diplodocids, goofy, Size, stinkin' mammals


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