The Running Deltadromeus
Deltadromeus was a runner. How many videos show a running Deltadromeus? The answer is very few. Dinosaur King has a few battle scenes from the video games that people have recorded and posted online....
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Deltadromeus Learns to Type
Deltadromeus is mentioned in quite a few books on African dinosaurs and is, as seen on Sunday, the titular dinosaur in at least one of those books. The naming paper for Deltadromeus is also available...
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How Do We Hunt?
©Dmitry BogdanovAt an estimated 26.2 ft (8 m) long Deltadromeus was a fairly long ceratosaur. Majungasaurus, one of the largest ceratosaurs in body size, was only about 23 ft (7 m) from tip to tail and...
View ArticleFossil for Sale
The arguments for and against the sale of fossils are all over the map; much like any other debate ranging from guns to religious freedom and beyond. Deltadromeus is one of those dinosaurs that have...
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Tidal Giants
©Dmitry BogdanovIn the Bahariya Formation of Egypt in the early 1900's Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach was a prolific discoverer of dinosaurs. In 2001 Joshua Smith et al. named a tetrapod, the first...
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Planets of Dinosuars
Screen capture from Planet DinosaurModels of Paralititan and illustrations have been made by many different artists. In all of these images one thing is similar regardless of the artist; Paralititan is...
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Gentle Paralititan
Sauropods are typically depicted as gentle giants. They were probably as aggressive as any modern animal toward a threat, but like many modern herbivores they were probably a little calmer than their...
View ArticleParalititan Planet
I suppose we cannot really say they owned the planet, though they did take a pretty big space in it, considering that they were rather enormous dinosaurs. Paralititan is a somewhat minor character in...
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The Mangrove Swamp
Stromer collected a lot of vertebrates in the early part of the 20th century in North Africa's Bahariya Formation. Included in these totals were fish and turtles, plesiosaurs, Spinosaurus,...
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Kafka Distractions
You know you want a hug too.When I went to search for things to talk about this morning here I got distracted by Kafka's doodle on Google. I thought I should share that I love that doodle. Anyhow, what...
View ArticleIn the Know
Paralititan is famous friends. So it would appear anyhow. Paralititan shows up as Spore creations, toys, video game bits, in documentaries (a pretty good synopsis here of the Planet Dinosaur episode),...
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The Mountains of Jura
The Jura Mountains of Germany yielded one of the smallest dinosaurs we know. Thought to be a juvenile due to its miniscule size, Juravenator starki, is a 75 cm long coelurosaurian theropod dating to...
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What Does a Tiny Hunter Look Like?
As I mentioned yesterday, Juravenator is thought to be a juvenile specimen, indicating that the miniscule size of the specimen is not the full adult size of the animal. I still happen to think that...
View ArticleJuravenator, Kid Sized Dinosaur
The image at the top of the Natural History Museum of London's fact page makes for a fairly good coloring page, though it is quite small and blowing it up may blur some of the lines. Not much else has...
View ArticleComprehensive Views
This video shows a rather comprehensive series of shots of the preserved skeleton and also shows some illustrations. Some of the labels are a little odd and there is no explanation at all of what each...
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Nothing for Free
©Nobu TamuraThere is never a free article when you want it. In fact, free articles are rare unless they are old enough that they have made it into the world of free press (i.e. out of copyright and...
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Toes in Sand
The toes of Juravenator are dinosaur toes for certain. Are they adapted to a life on a coastal shore and treading in the sand and mud? We cannot tell for certain because we do not have clear imprints...
View ArticleHappy to Visit
Juravenator, while not the most popular dinosaur, has made its presence known in video games, which is something of a marvel these days. I have never personally heard of this game until today, somehow,...
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Dinosaurs that Start with the Letter Z
©Mariana Ruiz VillarealTwo species of dinosaur, one originally in the genus Mochlodon, belong in a Z genus. Those dinosaurs are Zalmoxes robustus and Zalmoxes shqiperorum (do not ask me how to...
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Rakes for Hands, Giant Heads
Cast in Brussels, photo by GhedoSome inconceivable reason caused the curators of the Museum of Natural History in Brussels to take a rather nice cast of the rhabdodontid dinosaur Zalmoxes and give it...
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