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Friday phalanges: <i>Megaraptor</i> vs. <i>Saurophaganax</i>
Is that your flexor tubercle, Saurophaganax, or are you just hungry to see me? Up top there is a commercially obtained cast sculpture of a thumb claw of Megaraptor. Down below is an unpainted urethane… more →
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring
Oblivious sauropods being eaten, part 2: Bakker's snoozing brontosaur
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wrote 2 weeks ago: From The Dinosaur Heresies. Part 1. … more →
Friday phalanges: Megaraptor vs. Saurophaganax
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wrote 1 month ago: Is that your flexor tubercle, Saurophaganax, or are you just hungry to see me? Up top there is a com … more →
Night at the Museum: LACM's Camp Dino
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wrote 1 month ago: Last night London and I spent the night in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), … more →
The poor man's CT machine
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wrote 2 months ago: Another raw photo from the road. The Morrison fossils from the Oklahoma panhandle were dug up and pr … more →
OMNH 1331 is my new hero
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wrote 2 months ago: Here’s an update from the road–get ready for some crappy raw images, because that’ … more →
Neural spine paper: new file available
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wrote 2 months ago: Figure 7. BYU 12613, a posterior cervical of Diplodocus or Kaatedocus in dorsal (top), left lateral … more →
Our neural spine bifurcation paper is out
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wrote 2 months ago: Figure 4. Cervical vertebrae of Camarasaurus supremus AMNH 5761 cervical series 1 in anterior view, … more →
The sauropod neck mass project: an experiment in open science
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wrote 2 months ago: Brachiosaurus sp. BYU 12866 c5? in left lateral view with CT slices, some corrected for distortion. … more →
Get down, get fuzzy, speculative juvenile Apatosaurus!
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wrote 2 months ago: Well, this is rad. And adorable. Brian Switek, whom we adore, commissioned a fuzzy juvenile sauropod … more →
PeerJ launches today! (and we're in it!)
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wrote 3 months ago: Apatosaurus lousiae 1/12 scale skeleton in left antero-lateral view, modelled by Phil Platt, assembl … more →
Diplodocus carnegii cervicals, from Hatcher (1901)
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wrote 3 months ago: Here are cervical vertebrae 2-15 of Diplodocus carnegii in right lateral view, from Hatcher (1901: p … more →
Welcome Kaatedocus: this is how to illustrate a sauropod
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wrote 5 months ago: A couple of days ago, a paper by Tschopp and Mateus (2012) described and named a new diplodocine fro … more →
Was the Umbaran Starfighter from Clone Wars inspired by an Apatosaurus vertebra?
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wrote 5 months ago: Update, January 21, 2013: YES, it was! Scroll down for links to the entire saga. Because it’s … more →
AMNH mounted Apatosaurus with Taylor for scale
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wrote 8 months ago: We’re off to Oxford next week for SVPCA, so things may be quiet around here for a few days. Ca … more →
How fat was Brontosaurus? Well, not this fat, anyway!
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wrote 10 months ago: This is the Brontosaurus that I grew up with: It’s by Kenyon Shannon, found on page 14 of The … more →
Hot sauropod news, part 1: rampant pneumaticity in saltasaurines
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wrote 11 months ago: Caudal pneumaticity in saltasaurines. Cerda et al. (2012: fig. 1). Earlier this month I was amazed t … more →
Infernal specimens of the AMNH
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wrote 11 months ago: Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up. You may recall a story from the Onion Our Dumb Ce … more →
The giant Oklahoma Apatosaurus: OMNH 1670 redux
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wrote 1 year ago: In the recent post on OMNH 1670, a dorsal vertebra of a giant Apatosaurus from the Oklahoma panhandl … more →
The giant Oklahoma Apatosaurus: OMNH 1670
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wrote 1 year ago: Left: the Queen of England, 163 cm. Middle, the Oklahoma apatosaur dorsal, 135 cm. Right, classic … more →
