One For Kiddos
There are few fact pages dedicated to children for Adasaurus. We have seen fewer than are available today though. There is a pretty easy to read page over at Academic Kids, its only real short coming...
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Good morning from GSA in Denver, first of all. Secondly, Adasaurus has not made its way into any documentaries that I have found online. That is a little sad in and of itself. However, as we can see...
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Adasaurus has a short history of being written about. Unfortunately, it is a history that is mostly lacking. In part due to the recentness of the writing and in part due to the fact that the writing...
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Adasaurus is A Stocky Animal
©Mike HansonThis Adasaurus does not appear as stocky as my title in today's blog would have anyone imagine. However, remember that at about 6 ft (2 m) long, this is not an exceptionally large animal...
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In Storage
Originally posted by Mickey MortimerThe skull of Adasaurus, not seen for many, many years, was unveiled in a paper last year that reviewed Dromaeosaurine systematics and phylogeny. It was alluded to in...
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Keeper of the Winds
©KarkemishAeolus, keeper of the winds in Greek mythology, would probably be a little more light on his feet than the dinosaur that can claim him as a namesake. Aeolosaurus is a genus consisting of...
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Pointing Forward
From Garcia and Salgado 2013One of the most unique features that allies Aeolosaurus with other titanosaurs, specifically Gondwanatitan, is that the neural spines on the caudal vertebrae are angled...
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Aeolosaurus is not well known, we can accept that many of the titanosaurs are not well known I think. Cutting out a lot of the speculative and scientific debate of many other articles online, Academic...
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Motionless Winds
Sadly, for a dinosaur so rooted in winds, by virtue of its name, Aeolosaurus is rather motionless. There are a variety of reasons that this could be, but the sad fact is that there is simply not any...
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Aeolosaurus has been written about a lot more than it has starred in documentaries. The mentions of it in scholarly articles are pretty fantastic as well as the number of papers dedicated solely to...
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Aeolosaurus and Its Tail
The tail of Aeolosaurus had some rather interesting neural spines on their vertebrae. We mentioned previously that Aeolosaurus has anteriorly deflected neural spines on the caudal vertebrae. What is...
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What We Know
We know that Aeolosaurus is not a popular dinosaur, unfortunately. That has been borne out over the week. No one has offered any answers to any of the questions that remain without closure, sadly....
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A Different Branch of Dinosaur
Tyrannosaurids are always a fun branch of dinosaurs to discuss. After last week's nearly non-existent information on Aeolosaurus I think we ought to cover a nearly equally difficult to fossil...
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Two Species and Not A Single Skeleton
Constructed by Steveoc86Alioramus remotus is the more fragmentary skeleton of the two named species. However, it is still distinctive enough to be both Alioramus and a distinct second species of the...
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Kids Play with Alioramus
Alioramus shows up in a few kid related areas, which is always nice. Notable sites that I love to reference include, of course, Dinosaurs for Kids and Academic Kids. For the higher level students there...
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A minute into the Dinosaur! ride at Disney's Animal Kingdom an Alioramus rears back and ingests what is supposed to be a Champsosaurus according to the accounts I have read. The only real problem with...
View ArticleLooking at Brains and Heads
There are quite a few studies of Alioramus out there to be read. There is a little for everyone in fact. There are studies on osteology of Alioramus specimens out there. The study referenced in this...
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Alioramus is Unique Enough
Whenever an image says only "artist's rendition" I cringe a little for the artist and hope that someone knows someone that did the artwork. That stated, this Alioramus is even more unique than expected...
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The story behind the long narrow snout of Alioramus remains quite unsolved and a little bit conjectural. The purpose of such a snout clearly has an embedded purpose and we have certainly entertained...
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The Riches
The world owes a fairly big chunk of its knowledge of Australian dinosaurs to Tom and Patricia Rich (more correctly known as Patricia Vickers-Rich). Using the equipment of a company known as the Atlas...
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