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Children and Dwarf Dinosaurs
Science for Kids has a pretty good fact page going for Zalmoxes. It is a bit short, but it gets the important information out there quick and in an easily readable way. Additionally, I found a pretty...
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Zalmoxes does not appear in motion pictures, short or full length, animated or computer graphics. There is an alphabet video that mentions Zalmoxes in the Z slot of the alphabet; there really are not...
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Papers of the Zalmoxes
Zalmoxes, the poor unfortunate "unusual Euornithopod" has had some osteological and phylogenetic study done on it. That 2003 study by Weishampel, Jianu, Csiki, and Norman was the landmark paper that...
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The Island Life
Depending on the specific species, the size of the Zalmoxes differs greatly. Z. shqiperorum was the largest species and could grow up to four and a half meters long. However, the smallest, Z. robustus,...
View ArticleWhat A Strange Little Dinosaur
Zalmoxes lacks a lot of popular culture references we have seen on the internet. It did feature in some news stories back when it was renamed and a little afterwards. Zalmoxes has warranted enough...
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From Colorado to Portugal
©Davide BonadonnaFirst and foremost, many thanks to my sister Anna for taking over last week while I was in the field helping a colleague trap mice and avoid rattlesnakes. If you did not notice a...
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Key Features of Torvosaurus
The natural conclusion to yesterday's art by Davide BonadonnaTorvosaurus differs from many other North American and European giants in a number of ways. Obviously the European material from Portugal...
View ArticleTorvosaurus Educates, Does Not Eat, Children
We know if Torvosaurus were alive today it would not differentiate between adults and children in its diet, but we can assume that today it will only educate children rather than eat them. Doing so are...
View ArticleTorvosaurus on the Little Screen
Torvosaurus is one of those dinosaurs that was chosen to appear in the short series Dinosaur Revolution. The reviews on Dinosaur Revolution are mixed, but I feel that an educated mind can see both the...
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Torvosaurus Gets Inked
©Dmitry BogdanovTorvosaurus has been mentioned in a few studies. Obviously the paper naming the dinosaur describes Torvosaurus; that should be understood without having to be said.What does exist...
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Welcome to Wednesday
Nathan Eldon Tanner probably never expected to have a dinosaur named after him. He did, however, and it just happened to be one of the largest predators of the Jurassic that happens to have had...
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The Saddest Day
Taken from dinosaurjim.com, which was taken from elsewhere. If anyone knows the original illustrator please let me know. It may be based off of Scott Hartman's skeleton, but it is not the one he has...
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Slide on Over Scelidosaurus
©Nobu TamuraArmored dinosaurs are always fun to talk about. Lightly armored dinosaurs are sometimes even more interesting as they tend to possess a lot of intermediate and basal characteristics; not...
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Scelidiosaurs Slide Show
Nobu Tamura's updated ScelidosaurusYesterday I posted an image of a Scelidosaurus illustrated by Nobu Tamura and today is another version of Scelidosaurus by the same illustrator. He has changed the...
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Scelidosaurus May Confuse Younger Viewers
A reason that younger readers/viewers may get confused is that Scelidosaurus is a basal member of the group and therefore looks a bit like a stegosaur and a bit like an ankylosaur without being either....
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Scelidosaurus is not in any documentaries nor does it have any great influence in cartoons or many other forms of media. It does appear in one game, an educational game known as Dinosaur Safari (see...
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People have written about Scelidosaurus and they have also studied it a lot. The older the dinosaur the more it has been studied would be a nice rule of thumb, but we know that is not the case....
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Completely Incomplete
Cast of the David Sole specimen.Despite the 2000 discovery of what is known as the David Sole specimen of Scelidosaurus, there has not not been a modern description of Scelidosaurus. The David Sole...
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Almost Complete
Photos by Adam Stuart Smith and Stefan Schröeder, top to bottomas seen on the Dinosaur Toy BlogThe most complete skeleton discovered in the British Isles is that of Scelidosaurus. It begs the question,...
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Coelurus in the Afternoon
©Nobu TamuraSome days we just have busy morning. Coelurus does not mind at all. As long as I get to introduce him to everyone I strongly doubt that Coelurus would care. The genus Coelurus consists of...
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