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First Step Backwards
©Nobu TamuraAs promised a week or two ago, I plan to go back over the oldest list of dinosaurs I covered prior to the inception the blog/Facebook page devoted directly to this pursuit of knowledge and...
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Climbing and Slashing
Artist UnknownFor the past few years there has been some discussion here and there concerning the use of the extra large pes claws of Dromaeosaurids, particularly important to us of course, is the use...
View ArticleDromaeosaurs for Kids
Deinonychus has many sites that relate information at lower, middle, and higher reading levels; one of the many perks of being a more popular dinosaur I suppose. KidsDinos hits the lowest level readers...
View ArticleMovie Star Here
Slightly larger than they should be, and under the misnomer of Velociraptor, dinosaurs based on Deinonychus but the size of Utahraptor pepper all of the Jurassic Park movies. Understanding the idea of...
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Writing About the Terror
©Emily WilloughbyThe definitive description of Deinonychus material was penned by John Ostrom in 1969 and was published in that July as a 172 page edition of the Yale Peabody Museum Bulletin....
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Something We Often Missed
©Emily WilloughbyDeinonychus was a tad slower than we have been led to believe. Ostrom (1976) stated that the foot-tibia ratio of .48 indicated that Deinonychus was not much faster than contemporary...
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What Has Not Been Mentioned
This week has been fraught with popular culture references already; it almost seems like too much to devote an entire post to popular culture. However, I have barely scratched the surface of how many...
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Next Oldest Post
Nobu TamuraContinuing in the revamped original 8 posts this week is Leaellynasaura. Another Australian dinosaur from south of the Antarctic Circle (look back to Atlascopcosaurus), Leaellynasaura...
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Furred Polar Brrrrs
Leaellynasaura was a polar dinosaur. The area in which Leaellynasaura lived was well below the Antarctic Circle meaning that during part of the year, at least, the Antarctic winter caused that area of...
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Snow Covered Forest for Kids
Leaellynasaura is one of those types of smaller dinosaurs that people, for lack of a better term, consider adorable. Not much needs to be said in addition to showing the links for the day honestly,...
View ArticleThe Dinosaur of the Week Walks
This is one of those days that the movie gets to do the talking for us. Enjoy this episode, if you have not previously, of Walking with Dinosaurs:Parts 2 and 3 can be found from this part.
View ArticleWritten Leaellynasaura
The accessibility of some papers is better than others. The accessibility of free results for Leaellynasaura is one of those conundrums that ends in disappointment; not that there are not papers out...
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What Large Eyes
The eyes of Leaellynasaura are thought to have been quite enormous, given the size of the orbits of the skull. Proportionately the orbits, and therefore the eyes, are quite a bit larger than most other...
View ArticlePopular Because It's Popular
Admittedly, almost no one would have heard of Leaellynasaura if not for its role in Walking with Dinosaurs. Since that time any bland appearing ornithopod has been in danger of being labeled...
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Double the Crests
©Heather Kyoht LutermanMeaning "Two Crested Lizard"Dilophosaurus was discovered in 1954 in Arizona's Kayenta Formation. One species is recognized, Dilophosaurus wetherilli, and it is a highly...
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Feathers or No Feathers
Geological Museum of the Polish Geological Institute in WarsawAs has been mentioned in the not so distant past, the origin of feathering has not yet been pinpointed. Assuming that the feather origin...
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He Means His Jurassic
A good day for letting your children read or watch a video. There are not any dedicated books that are singularly exceptional about Dilophosaurus, in fact, the majority that are about this dinosaur...
View ArticleJurassic Dilophosaurus
Jurassic Park, home to many dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, was also home to Dilophosaurus. Remember the parts of this wonderful scene that were added by Crichton, retained by Spielberg, and have no known...
View ArticleChinese Dilophosaurus?
There are papers about Dilophosaurus that are of interest today; providing you do not have family events for Christmas Eve planned. There are some great papers on a supposed Chinese Dilophosaurus,...
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Merry Christmas Post
My intentions for today were to write a very short post with my old Dilophosaurus drawing in a bit of a festive getup, but I still cannot find that drawing. For those not celebrating Christmas, today...
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