Blogs about: Theropods
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Follow My Nose It Always...uh I think I'm having a hot flash
Very cool paper out in Science today demonstrating that the Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) uses its bill for thermoregulation. The story seems to be getting some good traction with the popular press, u… more →
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Behold the (possibly) mighty Deinocheirus
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David Hone wrote 2 weeks ago: There is a tradition in archosaur palaeontology to refer to things we don’t know much about as … more →
The tyrannosaur overbite
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David Hone wrote 4 weeks ago: Many thanks to Darren Tanke today for loaning me this photograph of a Gorgosaurus, one of a number o … more →
Anchiornis and the temporal paradox
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David Hone wrote 1 month ago: So after the original Anchiornis paper and now the follow up things should be pretty clear about the … more →
Anchiornis and the temporal paradox
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David Hone wrote 1 month ago: So after the original Anchiornis paper and now the follow up things should be pretty clear about the … more →
Mariana Musings (09-18-09)
Abyssal wrote 2 months ago: Another cool tyrannosauroid has been discovered in China. Sadly the name isn’t as cool as the … more →
Follow My Nose It Always...uh I think I'm having a hot flash
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Neil wrote 4 months ago: Very cool paper out in Science today demonstrating that the Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) uses its b … more →
Breaking Waves (07-13-09)
Abyssal wrote 4 months ago: An anonymous IP had made substantial revision to List of eurypterids. I did some formatting on the r … more →
Troythulu's Nu'z 1.15.62
Troythulu wrote 5 months ago: [1] Limusaurus fossil suggests birds ARE descended from dinosaurs after all… [2] Pictured: inc … more →
Limusaurus – four fingers and a whole mess of homologies
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David Hone wrote 5 months ago: OK, so Limusaurus was, bizarrely, a basal herbivorous ceratosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China, … more →
Theropods are clappers, not slappers
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David Hone wrote 6 months ago: One of the most pervasive but subtle errors of the Jurassic Park series LINK is the idea that therop … more →
Faces of Death
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Neil wrote 7 months ago: Chris Norris recently deployed the term “asteroid porn” for a certain gratuitous style e … more →
Sinraptor
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David Hone wrote 8 months ago: Sinraptor is one of those dinosaurs which is very well known in professional circles, but largely un … more →
AABQOTW 14
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David Hone wrote 8 months ago: This time out that vexed question of opposable digits in theropod dinosaurs. At least some of you wi … more →
More on that Beipiaosaurus
David Hone wrote 9 months ago: Having written about therizinosaurs only yesterday, I spotted this superb article on the new Beipaio … more →
A sense of scale
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David Hone wrote 9 months ago: Scale bars are of course an essential part of scientific photographs and drawings so that one can ge … more →
Fukuiraptor
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David Hone wrote 9 months ago: I have made it as far as Tokyo as part of my rapid tour of Japanese dinosaur collections and have sp … more →
Tyrannosaurs had small arms
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David Hone wrote 10 months ago: I’m on the road in Japan having just made it to Katsuyama, home of the famous Fukui Prefectura … more →
Deep inside Black Beauty
David Hone wrote 1 year ago: This was taken of the Tyrannosaurs rex mount we have in the main dinosaur hall of the Palaeozoologic … more →
LIFE, with reptiles
Neil wrote 1 year ago: Photo Tony Linck, 1948 Matt from HMNH recently posted some gems from the amazing LIFE photo collect … more →
