Kids Love the Croc
Aegisuchus is an animal that has not made a big impact in the world of child related website links. It has made one solid impact though, on Prehistoric Wildlife, but is in a more literature heavy...
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As I have said, I have personally talked about this animal many times over now to large audiences. However, I am not anywhere near as good at talking about it as Dr. Holliday, so we can let him explain...
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Single Papers
The only paper that exists for Aegisuchus is the paper that described the new animal. That paper includes highly detailed figures that show the fossil anatomy and the negative space anatomy of the...
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Warming Your Face
As stated many times over, Aegisuchus, the "shield croc", was probably using the boss on its head to do a number of small tasks. One was, almost undoubtedly, as an outpost for many of the vessels of...
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A New Week
First of all, I admit I omitted yesterday's entry. In part it was because I do not have a good writing schedule these days; I really need to get back into having a set time to sit and write every day...
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Sizes and Species
The species of Deinotherium are compared here. The size of the genus is generally similar to the size of the modern African Elephant, but a little bit taller. The tusk situation is obviously radically...
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Links Not For Kids
Deinotherium was a well known beast. Partly because of the oddity of its mandible, and partly because of its elephantine appearance, it has been seen many times over on the internet. The links that...
View ArticleHunting Elephants
In one of the weirdest Facebook games I have seen to date, one can hunt prehistoric animals including Deinotherium. This has little to do with videos except that I found a video capture someone made of...
View ArticleThe Paper Elephant
There are so many articles and published studies on Deinotherium that it is almost ridiculous how much information is simply floating around out on the internet. These animals are charismatic because...
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Trunks?
Dmitry BogdanovHow do we know that Deinotherium has a trunk like other elephantine animals? The quick answer is that Deinotherium is a proboscid and therefore inferences into soft tissue anatomy that...
View ArticleToy Time
Some days you find your Deinotherium in a video game (also available on Facebook) and sometimes you find it in the toy aisle. I prefer vintage art, like the Harder piece shown earlier this week and...
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Not A Chimp
Primates of the Miocene epoch pre-date known chimpanzees, and at least one species was closely related to the extant chimpanzee. The genus level is a little more confident in terms of knowing the...
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Monkey or Ape
©Nobu TamuraOnce in the past I wondered what made monkeys and apes different. The quick answer one usually hears is that a monkey has a tail while an ape does not. Looking at restorations and fossils...
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Kids Monkey Around
Monkey around, or ape around, whichever is appropriate in this case, either way Proconsul has a great many links for kids and adults alike. The links feature sites like Prehistoric Wildlife and About....
View ArticleThanks PBS!
PBS did a nice job "introducing" (many years later of course) Proconsul to the world. Therefore, let us allow Holly Dunsworth to discuss Proconsul in far more eloquent terms than I have been able to to...
View ArticleAssertive Statements
The question of whether or not Proconsul possessed a tail has been definitively answered before. One of the most assertive statements about that tail came from Carol Ward in 1991. There are more...
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African Forest Dwelling Apes
Twenty-three million years ago, give or take, the transitional ape Proconsul appeared in the fossil record as a definitive genus with four recognized species. As with all apes, these were tail-less...
View ArticleI Thought You Were Likable
Regardless of how one feels about mammals and apes, we really owe a lot to the likes of Proconsul and its descendants. We are, after all, distantly related to these early apes. They may not have toys...
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Silly Saurs
Asilisaurus kongwe is not actually a funny name. It comes from Swahili and means "Ancestor lizard." As a Middle Triassic Dinosauriform, Asilisaurus is in a very primitive or basal position on the...
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Triassic Body Shapes
Triassic body shapes are generally very similar for all of the earliest Dinosauriformes. There is, as usual, a very good reason for that which is based on fossil evidence that is available.The fossil...
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