No Roles Available
"Hadrosaur" is one of the easiest roles to fill in a documentary or motion picture; there are just far too many varieties of this wide ranging, globally, group to choose from. There is only one tribute...
View ArticleWritosaurus Kritosaurus
Kritosaurus was written about Barnum Brown in 1910, as if we had not noticed this before when we discussed the naming of the dinosaur. Brown's announcement in the Bulletin of the American Museum of...
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That Roman Nose
Kritosaurus means "Separate lizard" but it is noted that it has been mistranslated as "Noble lizard". This is thought to have been in reference to the bulbous and hooked nose of Kritosaurus. However,...
View ArticleA Short Wrap Up
Kritosaurus is a small hadrosaur in a sea of its kind. Unfortunately, it lacks all of the defining characteristics of dinosaurs that are popular enough that they have stuffed animals, plastic...
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Almost Birds... Again
I discuss birds a lot. It is kind of my thing (along with plesiosaurs). This week, traveling to Madagascar, in our minds, we will look at another kind of near bird. Small dromaeosaurids like Rahonavis...
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Dino or Bird?
Rahonavis is a borderline dinosaur that may potentially be a bird; as stated yesterday. Most of the illustrations that have been released since the naming and describing of Rahonavis in 1998 represent...
View ArticleKiddie Dino-Birds
The best kids sites have nothing regarding Rahonavis. There are a variety of reasons that this has happened; however, there is information out there for younger readers on sites like About and a very...
View ArticleSounds of the Forest
Dinosaur Revolution featured Rahonavis. Today is one of those days that the video needs to speak for itself. It certainly can as well. Thankfully, there are two videos that show Rahonavis, so there is...
View ArticleOpen Source Dino-Bird
First and foremost, there is a paper on keratin immunoreactivity in Rahonavis in a 1999 JVP issue; I am not worried about talking about that one today because I do not want to. If you do want to read...
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Menacing Clouds?
©Apsaravis (http://apsaravis.deviantart.com/)Perhaps the menacing part of the name Rahonavis is meant to represent the difficult nature of the taxonomic argument that sometimes still swirls around it;...
View ArticleAt Least One Popular Outlet
Dinosaur Revolution was, for obvious reasons, the one outlet of popular culture that we know for sure had references to Rahonavis. The little "dino-bird" appears in many books, mostly those that are...
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Golden Herbivorous Phoenix
©Emily WilloughbyJinfengopteryx elegans is bucking the trend, maybe, of following predators with herbivores that we normally ascribe to here in our rotation of fossil animals. It is also another very...
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Roostersaurus?
©Matt MartyniukJinfengopteryx was more troodontid than it was bird. However, it was every bit of a "dino-bird"in its feathering and general body shape. The retrices of Jinfengopteryx were fairly long,...
View ArticleWhat to Post When There is Nothing to Post
Our little golden phoenix has been left out of the children's literature. There are brief summaries of what we know about Jinfengopteryx out there to be read but that does not necessarily make up for...
View ArticleFeathers Evolve In Motion
As mentioned yesterday, there are not many (read: any) videos that really mention or feature Jinfengopteryx as a main character. There is the documentary on feather evolution that discusses many fossil...
View ArticleOnce More Compared
I can easily have a simple day and simply tell everyone to read the paper shared recently on size and evolution preceding the adaptations to powered flight; however, I have other papers for today as...
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All the Single Birds
It may not have been mentioned, but Jinfengopteryx is known from a single specimen. That single specimen, like many well preserved "dino-birds," is preserved in a slab of fine sediments that preserved...
View ArticleThe Popular Crowd
Jinfengopteryx is neither well known or uniquely popular. Even the supposed Chinese mythology surrounding it, Jinfeng is a derivative of the name of the "Golden Phoenix" that is queen of all birds,...
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Atrocious Atrocity
Photo by Emily Willoughby at the Royal Tyrell MuseumIn 1995 Wayne Marshall of East Coulee, Alberta discovered what was to become the type and only specimen of a dromaeosaurid known, 9 years later...
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Softer Sides of Savagery
©Ezequiel VeraAtrociraptor means "Savage Thief" and is really a fairly fantastic name. The majority of images that people have come up with for this supposedly savage dinosaur are very violent, perhaps...
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