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Therizinosaurs!
Therizinosaurs are some of the creepiest dinosaurs I can think of. Our dinosaur this week, Falcarius (One species: Falcarius utahensis), is considered a valuable transitional discovery between other...
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Some Short Anatomy
©Gaston DesignsThe arms of Falcarius are where the name came from, so we expect them to be pretty stunning. The large claws of the arm are just that; they are quite extraordinary in the world of an...
View ArticleFalcarius, Too Scary for Kids?
In terms of links friendly to younger readers Falcarius scores very low in search returns. That in itself is not a problem really, if there is someone around to help them read the harder to read items...
View ArticleFalcarius and the Video Question
Discovery, a few years back, aired a show dedicated to Utah's dinosaur graveyard at Crystal Geyser Quarry. The show follows the evolution of a theropod line of herbivores from carnivorous ancestors and...
View ArticleLindsay Zanno's Abridged Works
Not that everything thing Lindsay Zanno has ever written has been about Falcarius or anything, but Dr. Zanno spent a good deal of time with Falcarius and wrote, or coauthored, quite a few articles...
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More Than Arms
Falcarius is so much more than arms and leaf shaped teeth. It is a rather long dinosaur that tells us a lot of information about the other members of its family both before and after it in addition to...
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Famous Falcarius
Falcarius, as noted on Monday, was the subject of its own dedicated documentary produced by the Discovery Channel. The fame, however, does not stop there. Falcarius has also been modified into games,...
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New Old Partial Dinosaurs
©Mark WittonThe original material of Nyasasaurus (Nyasasaurusparringtoni) was a partial skeleton described in the 1956 doctoral dissertation of Alan Charig. The material was minimal, consisting of a...
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Camera Shy
©Nobu TamuraNyasasaurus, in part due to the fragmentary nature of the few remains that have been recovered, is not represented in images often. In fact, only two or three images of the dinosaur exist...
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Coloring A Rare Dinosaur
Nyasasaurus remains are rare and websites designed to educate children specifically about Nyasasaurus are pretty much non-existent. The best to offer in terms of that is the About.com page about...
View ArticleRadio Programs
Nyasasaurus does not have any dedicated videos; however, there was a radio program last year, Quirks and Quarks, that is hosted by CBC. The interview is fairly informative, and it is a nice listen. I...
View ArticleSouthern Dinosaurs
Support for the hypothesis that dinosaurs originated in the southern areas of Pangaea are explored in a paper that was begun by Alan Charig's colleagues with his help and then finished posthumously in...
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The Minimal Facts
It is always a difficult call to make when a scientist or group of scientists name a new species on very little material. Nyasasaurus is based on such little material that it is almost amazing that we...
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No One Knows Me
Nyasasaurus is a little known dinosaur. Even the name of the lake that lends its name to the dinosaur has changed in the years since it was discovered and initially named. Nyasasaurus is included in...
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Surprise Mammals!
We have discussed mammals here before, and usually I announce when we will deviate from our dinosaur topics, but I received a very kindly worded request not too long ago to discuss mammals again and I...
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Small Fossils
Leptictidium nasutumLeptictidium is actually a fairly exceptional little mammal. The general rule in fossils is that the smaller you are the more likely it is that parts of your body, or the entirety...
View ArticleFirendly Little Guys
There is not a doubt that Leptictidium falls into what the internet is these days calling the "dawwww" and "squee" categories of adorable little animals and the genus is as such expected to be a hit...
View ArticleLeptictidium Hopping Into Your Heart
Leptictidium is a bouncy little mammal. As such, the videos we have for Leptictidium are very "hoppy". In the words of LeVar Burtan, "you don't have to take my word for it", just watch this:
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Follow the Bouncing Mammal
It is something like follow the bouncing ball, but furrier and probably a little more dangerous than a ball, because Leptictidium has some good size teeth. The postcranial skeleton of Leptictidium has...
View ArticleChoosing Wisely
There is so much interesting anatomy, I admit it as someone that does not enjoy studying mammals typically, to choose to discuss today that I am not sure if I want to look at the hindlimb or the nasal...
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