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Biplanes and Other Papers
Sankar Chatterjee, and R. Jack Templin PNAS 2007;104:1576-1580Microraptor has become a magnet for attention in a variety of ways in the scholarly article realm. There have been some regular articles,...
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Small Thieves
While some thought, or think, that Microraptor was only capable of gliding flight, we saw some papers yesterday that thought it was capable of powered flight. Regardless of the actual flight abilities...
View ArticlePopular Everywhere, Maybe Even China
The discoveries of multiple specimens of Microraptor gui are the result of combined AMNH and Chinese cooperation. Some of the fossils were originally smuggled out of China and the various states of...
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Dwarf Iguanodons
The fluted tooth miniature Iguanodon known as Rhabdodon is a genus with two recognized species, R. priscus Matheron 1869 and R. septimanicusBuffetaut & Le Loeuff, 1991. The animals were discovered...
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Downy 'don
©Tom ParkerIt has become apparent that the discovery of feathers on more basal dinosauriformes has convinced more and more illustrators that all dinosaurs need feathering. This is, of course, not...
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Rabid Rhabdodon
Strangely Rhabdodon is actually a rather popular dinosaur with kids. The dinosaur shows up in the Dinosaur Train alphabet song and on the website. It also appears on some kid friendly websites other...
View ArticleRhabdodon on the Move
I have shared the Dinosaur Planet episode Pod's Travels about five times now because it has a lot of different insular species that we have discussed. I even shared it once on an Iguanodon post because...
View ArticleIn French, s'il vous plaît...
The first responses to my search for papers are in French. That is not a problem in and of itself, unless you know absolutely zero French. The fact that there are French language papers published in...
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Cretaceous Bovine Anatomy
Rhabdodon and other members of the Iguanodon family have rather basic and schematic anatomy. One iguanodontid looks quite a bit like the next member of the family and so on down the line, for the most...
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Teeth of Rhabdodon
Teeth in questionThe fluted teeth that give the dinosaur Rhabdodon its name are hard to find a good image of online. There are photos and images in the papers about the dinosaur, but these are not...
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The Attraction of Dinosaurs
Now that Jurassic World is out in theaters, we really should stop and ask ourselves, what is it that the public finds so endearing about dinosaurs? The size of dinosaurs is a clear option, as most...
View ArticleNo Single Image
Today I think it would be wildly inappropriate to post a single image of a single species of Mosasaurus. There are a lot of different interpretations of Mosasaurus and these can vary depending on the...
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Kids at the Pool
First of all, regardless of the feelings anyone may have for or against the latest movie, this t-shirt design related to the movie is fantastic:Best design I have seen this weekend, for anything, bar...
View ArticleManic Mosasaur Monday
I got a little sidetracked last night and forgot to hit enter on the post. Here is the post for Monday though.The majority of Mosasaurus videos on the internet right now are steeped in so much Jurassic...
View ArticleAll There is to Know
Anyone looking for a one stop paper on anatomy of Mosasaurus can visit this JSTOR page and take the rest of the day off. The paper is thorough and well written, and covers a wide swath of the anatomy...
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Reptiles in the Ocean
The ocean going reptiles of the Mesozoic were not a small faction of the population of those oceans at that time. Since different groups were considered the ruling reptiles of the ocean at different...
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Swimming with Class
Teylers Museum, HaarlemMosasaurus has, as expected, had a big draw as a fossil, on the blog, and in the movies. This is very apparent in Jurassic World, of course, but other documentaries and such that...
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Another Omission
©Matt MatyniukSomehow, through a calculated decision at the time I discussed flying reptiles three years ago, I omitted Pteranodon. Due to the focus on getting correct information out on Jurassic World...
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Heinrich's Pterosaur
©Heinrich HarderSome times the classics are almost correct and do not need a great deal of revamping. Beautiful as the newest illustrations of Pteranodon appear some times, the original depictions of...
View ArticleFather Pteranodon
Pterosaurs are well loved by all ages and groups. That, as it tends to do, lends itself to wonderful amounts of links and coloring sheets and all kinds of educational resource. The most obvious, at the...
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