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Blank Faced Ornithopods
©Karkemish (via Deviantart)Today I have decided that we will only have on illustration. There is a reason to such madness. The fragmentary nature of the discovered cranium makes it difficult to...
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Atlascopcosaurus and Little Fact Pages
Atlascopcosaurus shows its face rarely if at all in terms of reliable internet sites. This is not much different from the types of things that exist to present on normal Sundays; in a perfect world...
View ArticleAustralia in Motion
Atlascopcosaurus is not a vividly in motion Australian dinosaur. There are few resources that show Atlascopcosaurus in motion adequately but there is a tribute video, and that is a step in at least a...
View ArticleA Book Star
Atlascopcosaurus has not made a significant impact, overall, in the peer reviewed scientific publication world. It has, however, appeared in a number of books as passing information and even as a key...
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Once A Hypsilophodont
©Robinson KunzOriginally diagnosed as a middle of the group Hypsilophodontid, Atlascopcosaurus, has since been reassigned to the honored position of one of the basal-most Ornithopoda....
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Exciting Times!
There is little to discuss in terms of the popular culture impact of our small basal Ornithopoda friend Atlascopcosaurus this week. As such, we will discuss the world in which this dinosaur lived....
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So Small I Missed It All This Time
I've seen this before, but I cannot make out the illustrator's name."The compys didn't look dangerous at first sight. They were the size of a hen and walked nervously like a hen. But he (John Hammond)...
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Staring Pretty
©NRG (a good fellow from Argentina)Compsognathus, as a near relative of some of the earliest known feathered dinosaurs, may or may not have had feathering. These could have been fibrous filaments or it...
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Coloring and Learning
©Emily SheldonThere are a variety of sites that offer some knowledge on Compsognathus in literature that is written for a younger audience; which we always love to see. The sites that get used the most...
View ArticleCompy Puppets!
I am going to let the videos do the talking today. There is a puppet video as well as the I'm A Dinosaur version for Compsognathus.
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All the Papers
©Karola (Caimryo)Almost "turkey day" here in the US (strange how the colloquialism has become solely about a food that was possibly not even present at the historical Thanksgiving feast), and what...
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Grasping Hands For Grabbing You Up
©Shelley Kornatz (Eykoart)There are a lot of things that have not yet been discussed in terms of Compsognathus, though the papers yesterday and the discussions about feathers have given us quite a lot...
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Turkey Day Tribute
Compsognathus is a good little dinosaur. It has been an interesting dinosaur to discuss and research. I wish to keep things short today as I have a lot of Thanksgiving related things to do and so too...
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Big Nostril Lizard Foot
Picture by Nils KnötschkeLatin and Greek roots make for some rather fun to say dinosaur names and hierarchical categories. The macronarian sauropods of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous were one such...
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Looking at Europa
©Paulo MarcioThis image has been featured before here. It was featured back in March of 2012 in a discussion about Germanodactylus. This week, of course, we are highlighting the other animal (not the...
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German Resources
We have good English resources today from the London NHM as well as National Geographic making Europasaurus an international star for children. The home state, Germany of course, also gets in on the...
View ArticleEuropasaurus Time Lapse
I found two videos that are time lapsed and pretty interesting. The first is of a painting of Europasaurus which is fantastic.The second video is a time lapse of the preparations of a Europasaurus fossil.
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Reading A Lot About A Little
©Nobu TamuraEuropasaurus, for all of its small stature, is a fairly widely read dinosaur; meaning that people write about it quite often and it is therefore read about globally, not that the dinosaur...
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Shrink Wrapped
©Gerhard Boeggemann (His site is not working lately, so it is not linked)Hypotheses from Sander et al. (shared Tuesday) state that something like Europasaurus would have become "rapidly dwarfed" after...
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Popularity Island
©Cheung Chung TatWe saw the painting above illustrated in a time lapse video on Monday. We have also seen a lot of news articles about Europasaurus including this short National Geographic blurb about...
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