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Alectrosaurus is Short
In looking at illustrations and discussions the past 24 hours or so I have noticed that there has been a lot of debate around where in the family tree Alectrosaurus belongs. Some say it is an...
View ArticleSmall Tyrannosaurs for Small Humans
As a well known member of the dinosaur community, Alectrosaurus has become a popular internet dinosaur as well. That in turn leads to more websites hosting appropriate reading materials for all ages....
View ArticleTribute Monday
Alectrosaurus tribute videos seem to be in every corner of the internet. Some of the best, as usual, borrow images that are not always the animal that they are supposed to be showcasing. A lot of them...
View ArticleDescribe and Revise
Mader and Bradley (1989) redescribed Alectrosaurus by revisiting the syntypes of the dinosaur that were unearthed by George Olsen in Mongolia in 1923. Gilmore described the dinosaur as a "Deinodont"...
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The Leg Is Different
Alectrosaurus has a leg that has certainly led to some of the debate and confusion surrounding its placement in the tyrannosaur family. The reasons for this are that the leg, foot, and ankle are all of...
View ArticleThe Alectrosaurus in the Room
Alectrosaurus is a rather popular animal. Likenesses of the dinosaur have appeared in Dinosaur King games (as user made cards at least), Spore, and in the Planet Dinosaur documentary that was aired on...
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Mocking Geese
The ornithomimids are general bird mimics, as the name states. Some of the more well known genera include an ostrich mimic (Ornithomimus) and a chicken mimic (Gallimimus). One of the slightly less well...
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Paddle Hands
Photo by Robert BronowiczThe one anatomical character that separates Anserimimus from the ornithomimids is the manus. The fossils of the hand are fragmentary, just like the remainder of the animal's...
View ArticleMimicking Other Links
The links for ornithomimids are pretty similar, but even Anserimimus has its own individual links geared toward readers of all levels. Probably because of the very weak popularity of Anserimimus there...
View ArticleYou Won't See My Movies
The documentaries featuring ornithomimids are most often centered around the more popular and best known dinosaurs in the family like Gallimimus and Ornithomimus. Anserimimus does not feature in any...
View ArticleDescribing Bird Mimics
The original description of Anserimimus it appears to be missing from the collections of the internet as a whole. This rarely seems to happen with papers as new as this (1988) but it does indeed...
View ArticleWhere Do I Live?
Barsbold in 1988 assigned Anserimimus to a derived clade of Ornithomimosauria known as Ornithomimidae. Gallimimus has been confirmed a number of times, independently, as the closest relative of...
View ArticleMaking Do
How do we get dinosaurs to be more popular? Outreach of course, but how is that done with unpopular dinosaurs? Through a lot of luck and the love of people that know about the animal and already love...
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Young Raptors
By Emily Willoughby, www.emilywilloughby.com [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)]Welcome to the world of dinosaurs that will be ignoring the Spinosaurus circus. The only thing I am...
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The Details
From Evans, et al. (2013)The key for the image at left is as follows: (a) Saurornitholestes langstoni; (b) Bambiraptor feinbergi; (c) Atrociraptor marshalli; (d) Velociraptor mongoliensis; (e) Tsaagan...
View ArticleMaking Our Own Kids Site
Acheroraptor is a new enough dinosaur that there are not of links designed for educating children. Even our stalwart companions (e.g. About, KidsDinos, etc.) do not have pages hosted on their sites. If...
View ArticleNon-motion Pictures
Usually when a dinosaur is announced there is a flurry of media coverage. There is probably a statistical study out there somewhere that has looked at certain names and their correlation to news...
View ArticlePleasing Post
I am always happy when I can say something like this: the description paper of Acheroraptor is available online. However, today it comes with the caveat that it cannot be obtained unless you have a way...
View ArticlePictures of the Environment
The Montana Department of Transportation hosts a rather interesting listing of geological roadsigns found in the state that discusses the Hell Creek Formation. It is a good place to start looking at...
View ArticleGaining Popularity
As was mentioned previously, many times, the popularity of dinosaurs is highly variable. There are times when the dinosaurs in question are immensely popular and there are news stories that catapult...
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