Young Attenborough
Yesterday's BBC television clips were, when put together, a great short documentary definitely worthy of movie Monday. Instead of searching for a great deal of new documentaries, and there are not all...
View ArticlePapers for Eggs
Aepyornis papers, as with many aspects of the history that has been documented about these birds, are mostly about eggs. Constituting the most readily available fossil evidence of the birds, these eggs...
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Extinction Hypotheses
Happy Madagascan children with an Aepyornis egg, (C) Madagascar-tribuneThere are many hypotheses as to how Aepyornis went extinct. Many of those hypotheses center on human interaction because...
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Special Bird
(C) Lia BooysenAs everyone the world over celebrates the New Year (in the Julian calendar anyway), a few people want to see some things about Aepyornis. I think that David Attenborough and the BBC have...
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Back to Dinosaurs
Photo by Kumiko in Tokyo, JapanThe Good Marsh Foot, Euhelopus zdanskyi, was renamed in 1956 by A. S. Romer. The original name was simply Helopus zdanskyi as described by Carl Wiman in 1929. Collected...
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Heads Up
(C) Hirokazu TokugawaThe longer forelimbs of Euhelopus create a natural slope in the body which elevates the chest above the posterior end of the sauropod. The neck and head are raised higher because...
View ArticleChinese Sauropods for Kids
Euhelopus shows up quite often on the internet. Given that it is extremely important in many ways that we have discussed a number of times in the two days since we started discussing the animal, the...
View ArticleEuhelopus on Film, Kind of
Euhelopus is a popular Chinese sauropod. It is a unique dinosaur with longer forelimbs than hindlimbs and a head that was almost entirely preserved. The fossilized cranium may have been disarticulated,...
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Rebuilding the Skull
The famous Cretaceous sauropod of China Euhelopus was fossilized with a nearly complete cranium. Because the fossil was discovered so early in the history of documented Chinese paleontology, the...
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Anatomical Characteristics
There are a number of anatomical characteristics discovered with the four recovered specimens of Euhelopus. The first two recovered fossils are the basis of the type species while the subsequent...
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Launching a Science
Euhelopus may not be the main catalyst for Chinese paleontology, but as the first major find documented and described from China, it does hold a very important place in the machine that eventually...
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Geographic Challenge
In the course of history international borders have changed with an ebb and flow that some times makes sense from geographic and political changes (i.e. when rivers change and new countries are...
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Limited Reconstructions
Reconstruction hosted at NHM Dino Directory (http://bit.ly/1ObDgG6)Gilmoreosaurus suffers from a problem that many ornithischian dinosaurs suffer from in scientific popularity and representation. The...
View ArticleGilmoreosaurus Facts
Partially because of the fact that Gilmoreosaurus suffered a name change and partially because it was only named, not discovered, before any other Chinese fossil animal, there are not as many facts...
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On Odd Day
There is no additional video for Movie Monday for Gilmoreosaurus. We looked at the single video that concerned Gilmoreosaurus yesterday; this is equal parts sad and unfortunate. Instead, we will look...
View ArticlePapers and Cancers
Important papers about dinosaurs always exist and we usually start out each Tuesday mentioning that there are a lot of important papers out on whatever taxon we are discussing that week. This week that...
View ArticleGilmore's Dinosaur
Gilmoreosaurus was a pile of rubble, basically, that came across the desk of Charles Gilmore at the Smithsonian close to 100 years ago. His description of the dinosaur under a different genus (later...
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The Smallest Dinosaur
(C) Nobu Tamura (spinops.blogspot.com)Anchiornis huxleyi is arguably the smallest dinosaur that ever existed. This ignores extant dinosaurs, but comparing hummingbirds to small avialan dinosaurs is not...
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Seeing the Dinosaur
(C) Matt MartyniukThe dinosaurian head of Anchiornis is one of the most visible features of the little dinosaur. The small body, wings, and tail are much more bird-like than the head. Granted the tail...
View ArticleAnchiornis Facts
Anchiornis is a contentious dinosaur because of its mixture of traits that are similar to both dinosaurs and birds. Therefore, the fact pages that show up discussing Anchiornis are written from a...
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