Still Frames
Pantydraco is not an animated dinosaur by any means. We can chalk this one up to, once again, both the newness of the dinosaur's genus and the general lack of knowledge about the dinosaur in the...
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In what appears to be a borderline breach of conduct, one website hosts, in rather odd capitalization of the title in their link, a copy of Yates' 2003 paper announcing the description of a new species...
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Two Legs
Walking on two legs and possessing a dietary regimen of basically anything, Pantydraco was probably a bit of a monster to anything smaller and slower than it. The small proto-mammals and reptiles of...
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Wonders of Fame
The most famous thing about Pantydraco is that it is named Pantydraco. In ways that is kind of sad, but in other ways it is simply an understatement of the value of the remains that are Pantydraco. In...
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Whale of a Lizard
Moving from the early days to the giants of sauropoda, we can call just about any of the large members of the group whales of the land. Obviously they are not related to whales and are rarely if ever...
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Where's Your Neck?
©Nobu TamuraAs was mentioned yesterday, Cetiosaurus had a conspicuously shorter neck and tail than other sauropods. As a primitive looking member of its family it anatomically represents the lengths...
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HooplaKidz has struck again with a cartoon we can share with the children we know that love dinosaurs. It has been a while since we had one of those cartoons, so definitely take the time to watch the...
View ArticleCartoons Only Please
Cetiosaurus is a famous dinosaur that is not famous. It is one of the first known sauropods and has been known for nearly 200 years now. However, it has no appearances registered in major shows,...
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Many paleontologists make careers centered around one species, however it is not the normal situation. One paleontologist that appears to have devoted a good amount of his time to Cetiosaurus is Dr....
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Mistaken Identities
Cetiosaurus, as noted, was originally described by Owen as a large crocodile. The logic used by Owen to support this idea is that any animal as large as Cetiosaurus would require the buoyancy of...
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Whale's Tale
A lot of stories have been told this week about Cetiosaurus including the discovery of the Rutland Dinosaur and the original description and naming of the genus by Richard Owen. The popularity of...
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How Was I Missed?
Somehow I managed to miss a rather interesting South American theropod dinosaur. The small theropod lived in the Late Triassic approximately 232 million years ago and is considered a basal dinosaur,...
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Running At Dawn
©Nobu TamuraEodromaeus has a typical looking dinosaur body plan. It diverges from what would become the body plan of theropods in a number of small ways including the number of digits present on both...
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Eodromaeus is a dinosaur that will eventually become a favorite. Having been named in 2011 it is still a little young to be capturing the imaginations of most of the younger generation of dinosaur...
View ArticleThe Experts
Today there are a couple of videos that I want to let do the talking. I think these days are typically very nice because it means we have interviews or quality news stories that address our paleo-fauna...
View ArticleSeparating News and Science
There are a lot of news stories that come up under Eodromaeus even on scholarly search engines. The paper of interest, and at this point in time there really is only one paper of interest, also comes...
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Shortening and Reducing
The forelimbs of Eodromaeus are shorter than the forelimbs. We expect as much when we are told that an animal is bipedal. We also expect it in theropods, regardless of how basal they might be. As we...
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Eodromaeus is famous for being new. So many dinosaurs are more famous for being new than they are famous because of a great story or because it intrigued many generations of museum goers or...
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Forgotten Ceratopsians
©Nobu TamuraPossessing a name that means small, insignificant, and meager all in one word is kind of sad. However, when the second part of your name means horned face, the small, insignificant, and...
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Quills and Ceratopsians
The news of the potential pushing back of the origin of quills and feathers in recent mass media outlets is not really news to most paleontologists. While the evidence was not there until recently, the...
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