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Look at the Detail
©Kazunari ArakiFirst of all, that is not a set of toys or digitally created. This is a small sculpture. That in and of itself is pretty amazing. Mr. Kazunari has created sculptures for some of the...
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Little Dinosaur, Little Kids
via Arthur's clipartCoelurus is a small dinosaur; I think that point has been made many more times than needed over the past few days. The main point of today, as always, is to share information that...
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Coelurus has only made it into a short video that I have seen discussing the discovery of a small skull that belongs to it. The fact that a skull was found is not that amazing, but that it was fairly...
View ArticleCoelurus the Writer
Admittedly Coelurus did not write papers about itself (or have a written language itself) but there are papers out there that have been written about Coelurus. Some of these that can be found are about...
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Things I Like About Coelurus
Via the Daily Mail (Artist not credited)From 1980 to the early 1990's Coelurus benefited from being studied again and, this time, by being recognized as itself. During this time different...
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Story of Coelurus
Zander and Kevin Cannon have a knack for making dinosaurs more popular. Their cartoon studio has done an awful of lot work in multiple disciplines and over a wide variety of nerdy/geeky subjects. The...
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Star Heads
©Mariana Ruiz VillarealTechnically it just means "five horned face" but most star shapes have five points, so calling Pentaceratops sternbergii a star headed animal is not too much of a stretch. The...
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Hanging Pictures on a Frill
Adopted from Sampson SD, Loewen MA, Farke AA, Roberts EM, Forster CA, et al. 2010Pentaceratops had, arguably, one of the largest frills (a parietosquamosal caudal extension of the skull) in its family....
View ArticlePentaceratops the Gentle
Krispy Kreme hosted a coloring contest featuring Pentaceratops once in New Mexico; that is how popular the dinosaur is with kids in its "home state". Pentaceratops is a well known dinosaur the world...
View ArticlePentaceratops Movies
Movies about Pentaceratops, in a professionally done manner of speaking, are few and far between, but movies do exist. There are numerousPentaceratopstribute videos; it is always kind of fun to see...
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Printa-ceratops
Wired Science compilation using Nicholas Longrich's skull reconstruction on rightWe could spend all day today simply linking articles that are about, mention, or vaguely address Pentaceratops. There...
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The Big Frill
Holotype designated by HF Osborn, 1923Measuring approximately 10 feet from the anterior of the premaxilla to the posterior end of the parietosquamosal frill, Pentaceratops had a head about as long as...
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Hard Being Popular
One of the worst things about ceratopsian skeletons is the general lack of post cranial material. Generally all ceratopsians are illustrated, sculpted, and modeled the same exact way post cranially due...
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Othniel Honored
Running herd cast at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science; Tad WilliamsIn 1878 Othniel Charles Marsh named a small ornithischian dinosaur Laosaurus consors; "kindred stone lizard". Since that time...
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Omnivorous Herbivourous Carnivore
Marsh's LaosaurusThe typical configuration of hypsilophodonts is that of an herbivorous bipedal dinosaur running swiftly through the underbrush and nibbling at the leaves on the forest floor. Marsh's...
View ArticleFinding Othnielosaurus
In 1977 Peter Galton changed Nanosaurus to Othnielia. In 2007 Othnielia was again changed by Galton to Othnielosaurus. This made finding kids websites a little more of a chore this morning as I had to...
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Othnielosaurus Hunted
Once again Othnielosaurus has not shown up in searches due to the change in name. However, Othnielia still turns up results on this happy little Monday. Strangely enough, the results it turns up appear...
View ArticleOthnielosaurus in Writing
Many papers have been written about, or mention, Laosaurus, Othnielia and Othnielosaurus. The key papers that describe and assign the animals through time into ever smaller groups are the most...
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Othnielosaurus Confused
Othnielosaurus is a very confused dinosaur, as we have seen this week. Most of the confusion associated with Othnielosaurus is due to the fact that the name and assignment of the remains has been...
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Othnielosaurus Waited All Afternoon
Paleontology Museum of ZurichI slacked a little bit today, and I apologize for that my friends. Othnielosaurus was more popular as Othnielia than it ever has been as Othnielosaurus. Under its new...
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