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Look At That Manicure
The claw at lower right belongs to Dryptosaurusaquilunguis. The photo is courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.Typically when we think of large claws, at...
View ArticleHow To Increase One's Popularity
First and foremost, be comprised of more bone! The lack of bone leads to doubts, by some, in the scientific community and that in turn leads to a lack of publicizing the existence of some animals. That...
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You're Gonna Want A Bigger Boat
Had this week's dinosaur been one of those at Jurassic Park, or the second island where, in The Lost World, dinosaurs were being captured to be part of an attraction in California, they would have...
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Enormous Imaginations
©Charles R. KnightNo matter how outdated a Charles Knight illustration, I still love them. When drawing Amphicoelias Knight borrowed from the descriptions of the time and from Cope's description of...
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The Mystery That Eludes Children
The mystery around Amphicoelias is elusive to children. Unfortunately they do not have the resources to join this debate unless they can read the technical specifications of the specimen; that is that...
View ArticleNot A Surprising Lack of Movies
Not surprisingly, with a lack of general public awareness and the entire mystery surrounding Amphicoelias, there have not been any fantastic movie, cartoon (as noted yesterday), or computer graphics...
View ArticleWriting About Sauropods
Cope's writing about Amphicoelias is not readily available online; as is the case with most 19th century science of any kind really. However, H.F. Osborn and C.C. Mook's summation and review of Cope's...
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The Other Species
All this talk about distal femur bits and potentially crumbled into oblivion neural arches in Amphicoelias is slightly deceptive. The only species missing all of its evidence in this discussion is A....
View ArticleWe Know Its Name At Least
Amphicoelias, by most accounts, would not qualify, either species, as a popular dinosaur, but people have heard the name. Perhaps not many people outside of paleontology circles, but those that have...
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A Good Old Boy
Restoration illustrated by Michael B.H.If you are not aware of the slang in the title for any reason then you should know that it is typically used as a negative, but at times can be used in a positive...
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Bones in Alabama
The bones, finally put into a composite here, that were described by Carr, Williamson, and Schwimmer, were a good portion, compared to some type specimens, of a dinosaur. Enough, obviously, to...
View ArticleCreating Kid Friendliness
It seems that I may really need to look into making my own child friendly information pages. I may also need a full time, free, coloring page illustrator to do that. You cannot have fun kid oriented...
View ArticleAn Old Trend
I haven't had to post a "tribute" video for a while on a Monday, but I do today. Appalachiosaurus, in video terms, falls under a few of the "not film ready" dinosaur traps: 1) it is relatively new...
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Appalachiosaurus Has Papers
The naming/describing paper announcing Appalachiosaurus to the world is available online. I like being able to say that. It is nice that such valuable resources are there for everyone to read and learn...
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Calling For Help
A special angle of the position of the mounted skeleton.Appalachiosaurus, like so many other incomplete skeletons, is a cry for more findings. The legs tell us a good amount of information about the...
View ArticleLaugh At The Partial Skeleton
Sometimes, like the angle of that picture of the casting I posted yesterday, you just have to laugh at dinosaurs. For all the ferociousness another angle of that skeleton captured, that angle was just...
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A Panoply of Dinosauria
Before I begin today, allow me to explain the changes you may have noticed. The banner/cover photo is a little vague for a reason; basically I like surprises of all forms and types. As longtime readers...
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Drawing An Adult Baby Dinosaur
Courtesy of the Smithsonian InstituteHow does an artist, and this is another problem of only having a baby or juvenile dinosaur to use as a model for a species, restore a baby dinosaur that has no...
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Making Your Own Fact Sheet
As to be expected with such a new, rare, and tiny dinosaur, there is no child friendly fact page to simply link to today. Therefore, like last week, I am borrowing from here and there and making my own...
View ArticleA Couple Videos to Share
The Smithsonian's page on amateur paleontologists that contributed to the "Dinosaurs in Our Backyard" exhibit, which is on the first floor of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.,...
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