Creating and Reporting
I have been told in the past to be very careful in reading and discussing Creationist accounts of paleontology in the past by other academics. However, I think it is very important to be able to read...
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Feathers Where?
The holotype of Yutyrannus had feathering evident on the pelvic and pes areas of the fossil. A specimen known as ZCDM V5000 was discovered with feathers facing posteriorly on the tail. The feathers...
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Every time I type in Yutyrannus the Jurassic Park Facebook game pops up before anything else; apparently popular culture is obsessed with Yutyrannus' presence on Facebook. Outside of that I have found...
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Therizinosaurs and EBFF's
©Pavel RihaGoing backwards in the history of feather discoveries we hit the previously largest known feathered dinosaur. Elongate Broad Filamentous Feathers, the type of feathers discovered along the...
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Feathered Fossil
From Xu, et al. 2009The long and short filamentous fiber of Beipiaosaurus are quite clearly evident in the fossil remains. The downy layer of insulation feathering as hollow filaments are partially...
View ArticleFeathered Movies
There are actually few sources for kids on Beipiaosaurus. One of them traces back to a Creationism blog that says paleontologists are making up evidence of feathers and interpreting fossils in the best...
View ArticleBeipiaosaurus Videos
As usual, with this tribute expect music that you may or may not like. The news articles of 2009 loving or hating Beipiaosaurus have genuinely disappeared by now. Most documentaries have a tendency to...
View ArticlePapers Are Like Fossil Feathers
Papers regarding Beipiaosaurus are somewhat rare. The papers that are out there include a paper on the EBFF structures. This paper is short, but available online, and discusses the EBFF structure as...
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Big Coelurosaurs
©Oyvind M. PadronJust like Yutyrannus, Beipiaosaurus was a coelurosaur of giant proportions. Being the largest feathered dinosaur so far discovered is not really an honor, but certainly could be...
View ArticleSpore and More
Spore's version of Beipiaosaurus, or at least the one that is available online, is not very feathered looking, but is certainly an admirable imitation of the original from 124 mya. Books, while...
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Never Cry In Argentina
Do not cry for Argentina when it comes to dinosaurs; I may be one of the few people I run around with that remembers Madonna had a big hit related to Argentina way back when and that that counts as a...
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Always Snacking
Work attributed to ContyAccording to the artistic interpretation of much of the paleo-artist community, Aucasaurus ate nothing but baby Titanosaurs. The small morsels would have been easier to eat for...
View ArticlePlaying Nice With Others
Aucasaurus may be one of the best known of the Abelisaurids to science, but that does not translate exceptionally well to how popular a dinosaur is with paleontologists of younger ages, as we well know...
View ArticleHunting Long-Necks
Saltasaurus probably was often a meal for Aucasaurus, but we see them eating Titanosaurus chicks more often. Saltasaurus would have been more of a snack that Aucasaurus could teach its young to hunt....
View ArticleQuick Read
Not much to read about today. There are a number of papers, most any paper that references Aucasaurus would be a candidate today, that are about Patagonia and that mention Abelisaurids. However, the...
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Fights and Skulls
The skull of Aucasaurus is damaged. Perhaps not all of their skulls ever, but the type specimen is most definitely damaged. This damage has lead to speculation that the animal in question was in a...
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Not As Popular As Carnotaurus
©Ezequiel Vera (A pretty awesome guy)Whether it was the size of the dinosaur or those impressive orbital horns, Carnotaurus beat out Aucasaurus as the antagonist in Disney's Dinosaur. It also lost out...
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Never Enough Hadrosaurs
Kritosaurus consists of two accepted species; one is questionable. This genus has been mislabeled some times as Gryposaurus but is in fact its own genus and is not synonymous. Named by Barnum Brown in...
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Hadrosaurs of the Southwest
Photo by Elias Garcia-OrtizThe skeleton of Kritosaurus is not well known. Recreations of the skeleton and fleshed out body are based in part on Barnum Brown's reconstructions using Edmontosaurus and in...
View ArticleCryptically Child-like
Kritosaurus is summarized by the London Natural History Museum very concisely and the entire taxonomic map is laid out on the page; showing how complicated the history of Kritosaurus is in a linear and...
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