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Achelous' Lizard
©Mariana Ruiz (edits by Michael B.H.)Achelousaurus. Achelous' Lizard. Strangely named, considering that Achelous is a minor deity of the Greek pantheon and the remains of Achelousaurus were discovered...
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Images of Later Centrosaurines
©Rescast InternationalThe skull of Achelousaurus possesses three dense bone groupings along the nasal, some of the frontal, and the supraorbital ridge. The nasal ridge is always depicted as a shield...
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Juvenile Achelousaurus for Juvenile Humans
There are a few good resources today. Science for Kids has a small fact page that is child friendly; we always like to see those on a Sunday morning. Additionally, though there is no Dinosaur Train...
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Achelousaurs' Other Movies
Yesterday I shared Dinosaur King and how to draw videos of Achelousaurus. I almost wiped out all of the video resources for Movie Monday by doing so yesterday. There are no new documentaries or kiddy...
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Achelousaurus: Paper Edition
Achelousaurus is not a really heavily written about Centrosaurine, though it cannot be said that nothing has been written about it in relation to other Centrosaurines or even in papers by itself....
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Following Trends
©Nobu TamuraKirkland and DeBlieux, as mentioned a couple of weeks ago now, described Diabloceratops. In doing so they made some generalizations about the evolutionary trends of the Centrosaurines based...
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Achelousaurus' Spotlight
First and foremost, Achelousaurus appears in Spore as a created character. I think the job was done well, until the frill moves because it looks as though it was constructed of "hair":Secondly,...
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Lizard Eating Master
©Chris Dodds (uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by FunkMonk)The Lizard Eating Master, or Saurophaganax, is a Morrison Formation denizen of the late Kimmeridgian Age, Late Jurassic, of Oklahoma, USA....
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To Allosaur or Not To Allosaur?
©Michelle (AKA Mitternacht90)Saurophaganax, as we briefly discussed yesterday, poses a small problem. Looking at the skeleton, both from yesterday and today, it can be seen to possess many Allosaurid...
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The Children's Lizard Eater
Saurophaganax, for kids, is not really a foreign animal. It has appeared in a number of places, including in Dinosaur King in an episode called Dueling Dinos. I like that we can step away from the hard...
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Movie Apocalypse!
Saurophaganax, for a somewhat disputed dinosaur, has made a few waves in the world and certainly enough to be portrayed on film. Yesterday we saw a cartoon version of a meaty and robust theropod that...
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Papers and Problems
©Chris Porter (Commissioned by OMNH)Daniel Chure's original 1995 redscription and redesignation of Saurophaganax was published in a collection of papers and presented at a symposium on Mesozoic...
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Neural Arch-Nemesis
The tibia originally used to distinguish what was then Saurophagus from Allosaurus was not distinguishable from those found in Allosaurus. We have mentioned that a few times so far this week. The...
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As Seen On TV
Saurophaganax, we have discovered, is different from Allosaurus in the way in which the vertebral column is constructed, not, as thought in the 1940's, in the way in which the tibia was constructed. We...
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Living Under Your Feet
Hypsilophodontids are small, quick moving herbivorous creatures known worldwide from the Middle Jurassic to the Cretaceous. One species in particular, however, is of interest to us this week and is...
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Dinosaur Moles
©James HaysOryctodromeus burrows were discovered in 2006 in Montana and since then other burrows have been described from Australia. While Anthony Martin, the man responsible for the descriptions of...
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Introducing New Words
The folks over at the Dinosaur Train camp put together a rather interesting episode called "The Burrowers" featuring Oryctodromeus. The episode introduces words to the audience, intended of course to...
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Moving Oryctodromeus
As far as illustrated Oryctodromeus we cannot really improve much on the fun illustrations of yesterday. Dinosaur Train really characterized the speed that Oryctodromeus is theorized to have possessed;...
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Early Morning From My Burrow
It is a bit chilly in my house. Kansas wind blows out the pilot light on our heating unit (it has a gas shut off so that is not a worry) on such a regular basis that we do not even really use the...
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The Basal Euornithopod
Using the extensive practice I have these days with scientific names, my history of translating the Anglicization of Greek in scientific names and my past in which I took Latin classes, I can tell...
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