Facts for Sunday
There are not too many fact pages about Daemonosaurus that are tractable in terms of children reading and understanding the information. Granted that many children these days that are interested in...
View ArticleIs There Any Motion?
Sometimes the Smithsonian site shows up under the video tab on Google when there is in fact no video. However, there is a video or two available, though they are not of professional documentary level....
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Explain The Head
From Sues, et al. 2011The chunk of rock preserving the head of Daemonosaurus is of respectable size as far as heads and fossils are concerned. One can see in the fossil that both sides are present and...
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Construction of A Cranium
From Sues et al., 2011There are many places in which to see a labeled reconstruction of a fossil skull. There is only one place to really see a reconstructed and labeled of Daemonosaurus, officially at...
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Public Demons
Tomorrow I plan on starting November, a few days early, with something special. Today, however, the devilish October theme is coming to a close here. Daemonosaurus is a somewhat popular dinosaur that...
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Preparing for November
Sigismund von Herberstein (public domain)Where October was Halloween themed, November will have a very different and fun theme. In the past few years more people, in Australia and the United States at...
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Shape of Bulls
Wikicommons user DFoidl uploaded this imageOxen, in the United States, are typically pictured, I think, as those that are depicted in the computer game Oregon Trail. Infrequently oxen are seen in this...
View ArticleSometimes Inaccuracy is Okay
While looking for fact pages and interactive websites to share with kids, I found quite a few interesting things. As usual there are numerous fact based websites that can be shared with kids such as...
View ArticleAurochs and Mountains
Europe, where the history comes from (as Eddie Izzard states), has been a bit of a battleground, as the other continents have been in their time, for conservation and wildlife "rights" for some time...
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Writing About Cows
Many Aurochs related papers are heavily interested in genetics. There is a reason for that, of course, and the reason is that the most interesting Aurochs related questions are often tied in with the...
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Paint it on the Cave
Lascaux Cave ArtWhenever an animal was an important enough to humans that it played an integral part in the diet, work, play, stories, or fears of humans those animals tend to make an appearance in...
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Famous for A Cow
Saying a cow is famous sounds a little silly. However, when we consider that bovids like the Aurochs made such an impression on humans that they appeared in their cave art and have shown up in other...
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The Less Woolly Cousin
(C) Charles R. KnightThis blog has covered many woolly mammals. We are going to continue discussing mammals, of course, because I said that November would be a mammal month. This makes some good...
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(C) Daniel ReedPlaceholder for tomorrow. Somehow I forgot to write today. We'll replace this text with a nice discussion on this illustration tomorrow.
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Coloring the Mastodon
While most of the United States is watching football I encourage, as I always do, discussing and reading about the fossil animal of the week (I have nothing against football; I'm watching a game while...
View ArticleMovies of Mastodons
Some days the movies find themselves and the post barely even needs any writing. Today, despite my knowledge of music, I had to be reminded that searching just "Mastodon" turns up a lot more music than...
View ArticleMastodon Science Is Wonderful
One of the best thing about the recently extinct is that we tend to have a record that is usually a bit more tenable and therefore easier to study. That means I can excitedly share papers that discuss...
View ArticleWhat is in Your Teeth?
The teeth of mammoths are composed of ribbon-like layers of enamel that create an interesting and highly effective grinding surface. Mastodons have very different teeth that are more well-suited to...
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Know Your Proboscids
Elephants, mammoths, and mastodons are all closely related. Considering that mammoths and mastodons died off so relatively recently that our very near (geologically of course) ancestors hunted and...
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Giant Fossil Weasels
Technically we are not talking about a weasel or an otter (it is an otter-like creature though). This week we are discussing an extinct mustelid reminiscent of its descendants. These happen to be...
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