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Under Sauropelta's Armor
©Ely KishThe Ankylosaurs routinely have their armor discussed and very rarely have massive amounts of other information related to the public about them. The feet, girdles (pelvic and pectoral), and...
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Sauropelta is a recurring character in books about armored dinosaurs as well as dinosaur encyclopedias. These include books like this one with a rather odd looking dinosaur on the cover. The most...
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A Big Show
In wrapping up the old set of original posts prior to the "modern" inception of Dinosaur of the Week we have the happy instance to work on one of the largest, most popular, and obviously coolest...
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Skulls and Horns
Photo by Bob Ainsworth (Oklahoma Museum of Natural History)The horns I mentioned yesterday consist of dorsal extensions of the lacrimals which make up the posterior boundary of the antorbital fenestra...
View ArticleAllosaurus Is A Family Dinosaur
The number of Allosaurus links that are geared toward children and lower level readers is admirable compared to other dinosaurs that are popular. New Zealand's Science Kids and KidsDinos have pages, as...
View ArticleI Have My Own Special
Allosaurus shows up in a ridiculous amount of different documentaries; we all know that Allosaurus is a famous dinosaur with many popular outlets. Walking with Dinosaurs used Allosaurus twice; once in...
View ArticleMonster in Writing
Few dinosaurs have been compared, used for evolutionary studies, and analyzed overall as often or simply as much as Allosaurus. The bite force has been calculated. An ontogenetic study has been...
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Messes of Information
There are usually only a few topics of interest on Wednesdays to pick from and extrapolate. Allosaurus gives us a copious amount of information to draw from and discuss today. We could discuss ontogeny...
View ArticleAllosaurus Digitally Remastered
As always, the famous dinosaurs have the most modelling gigs. In Spore as well as Zoo Tycoon there are multiple different models of Allosaurus that people have modded into the games or made available...
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Oh My!
It is still technically Friday! I was a little busy today and as such I am drawing on the midnight hour to post. This week we are going to discuss Omeisaurus (Omei lizard), a sauropod from the Middle...
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That Neck
He et al. (1988:fig. 63)The neck of Omeisaurus was distinctively longer than most sauropods but it is still shorter than the Chinese sauropod Mamenchisaurus. Despite the multitude of species in the...
View ArticleNot For Children
Omeisaurus joins that select group of dinosaurs that have been around for an extended amount of time, are fairly well known, and yet have very few resources online available for lower level readers and...
View ArticleSurprising Video
Omeisaurus appears in only a few videos as videos for Omeisaurus specifically. One of them comes from a source we have used before, the "Mesozoic Idol" contest that was supported by the Brookfield Zoo....
View ArticleOmeisaurus Lacks Press
Strong dinosaurs are well known dinosaurs, in the public eye, but not all of the research that is done on Omeisaurus has reached our country. Despite the popularity of this genus of dinosaur we are...
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What We Don't Know
Ignorance is bliss, correct? Probably not in this case. Omeisaurus has been a known and accepted dinosaur since 1939. The world was in turmoil at the time, then Mao took over China, and then there was...
View ArticleExciting Videos
The Mesozoic Idol video from earlier in the week falls into the category of popular culture as well as yesterday's discussion did. Omeisaurus has appeared in other zoo displays as well including...
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Giving In To Pressure
Not too long ago I said I was going to allow Yutyrannus to float out in the dinosaur world for a while before I discussed it. It has floated long enough for me to feel okay with presenting it as a...
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Feathered in Degrees
It may have appeared that there was an argument against feathering with Yutyrannus, but that was certainly not intended. The fact is that there is evidence that there are feathers and they definitely...
View ArticleFeathered Kids
One of the benefits of paleontology being popularized is that there are more resources for kids, and the rest of us. Time for Kids featured an article in April 2012 that is still available online,...
View ArticleMonday, Right?
My days melt together sometimes and Monday and Tuesday are extraordinarily busy. I tell all the readers this only because these entries will probably not be written until after 5pm local time on those...
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