Long Postings
Want a long post, you have to wait a little longer in your day; that and I honestly did not realize what time it was because I have been out and when in avoiding my computer because I am having trouble...
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Too Long To Hold My Tail Up
©Charles KnightThe old view of sauropods, due to their girth and sheer size, was that of a swamp and marsh dwelling creature supporting its weight through buoyancy in the waters. Dragging its tail and...
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Spanning A Chasm
O.C. MarshThe 1896 diagram of Apatosaurus excelsus drawn out by Othniel Marsh depicts an animal with a very smooth body curvature from the head to the tail. The skeleton, according to Marsh, was not...
View ArticleLoving Brontosaurus
Apatosaurus, once our loving friend Brontosaurus as well, is now and has always been a favorite of children everywhere. This is born out in the sheer number of children's books devoted to one or the...
View ArticleGertie, and Other Appearances
Apatosaurus first showed up on film, as Brontosaurus, as Gertie, the lovable cartoon dinosaur of the silent film era.Winsor McCray's 1914 cartoon was not to be the only popular appearance of either...
View ArticleHistology and History
Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus alike have long histories in the literature. The most modern scientific inquiries into Apatosaurus have looked at ontogeny through histology, amongst other avenues of...
View ArticleApatosaurus Growth
Wednesday's I sometimes have a lot of information to wed through and present. Apatosaurus is one of those dinosaurs that has been studied enough and is well enough known that we could easily fill a...
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Apatosaur Breathing
©Dmitry BogdanovApatosaurus has been one of those dinosaurs that every post has included some sort of popular culture reference. Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus were both popular dinosaurs on their own...
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Hollow in Form, But Not Substance
©Jeff Martz via National Park ServiceJust to note, before we really begin, how interesting the name is, Coelophysis refers to the bones of the animal while the specific epithet (bauri) honors an...
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Just a Typical Dinosaur
©Nobu TamuraTriassic dinosaurs like Coelophysis sometimes seem to be very stereotypically illustrated. The reason for that, of course, is because a lot of the generic traits of dinosaurs have their...
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Gracefully Entering the Room
Kids love a slinking low profile dinosaur as much as they do a giant bone crusher. The slinking ones are sometimes not as scary, but they are good for darting in and making quick strikes at prey; kids...
View ArticleCoelophysis the Model
The models used for Walking with Dinosaurs with the Coelophysis segments were a bit older, given that Walking with Dinosaurs was produced prior to the rest of the "Walking with" series and were far...
View ArticleGhost Ranch Writers
Many people have discussed, researched, and written about Coelophysis. Sometimes those writings appear in books, like this chapter on variation within Coelophysis bauri by Edwin Colbert that can be...
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Sex in the Coelophysis
Just so everyone knows, thinking up fun titles is half the enjoyment I get out of writing these everyday; the other half is knowing that someone somewhere is learning or at least questioning what they...
View ArticleCoelophysis Everywhere
Spore is always a good outlet for dinosaur lovers to create models of their favorite dinosaurs. There are a handful of versions out there; this one is much more flamboyant and crazy than many other...
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Armor and Spikes
The Thyreophorans, Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs, are noted to be heavily armored dinosaurs built equally for defensive and offensive capabilities with some specializing in one or the other end of that...
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Sprawl and Spike
Sprawling dinosaurs have widely gone out of fashion, so why does it appear that this dinosaurs is sprawled out? Honestly, we can blame it on the angle and the position of the dinosaur. Sauropelta, as a...
View ArticleMinimal Child Influence
Sauropelta is not a huge mainstream dinosaur and therefore does not impact the world of children's facts anywhere near as much as some dinosaurs have been known to do. It has managed to make it into a...
View ArticleScissors of Doom
Granted the clip I promised on Saturday has nothing to do with Sauropelta itself as a dinosaur, it does exhibit that potential scissor action of the dermal spikes of the tail. The action of the tail...
View ArticleBack to the Right Dinosaur
Sauropelta shows up in a few bits of literature that are available online; that is always very nice. One of these is dependent on one's ability to get Canadian Journal of Earth Science articles....
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