Movies Arrive
Since 2011 (the last time we covered Lambeosaurus) a lot of short videos and tribute slideshows have been put together for Lambeosaurus and posted online. The majority of these are newer videos are...
View ArticleThe Papers Remain Similar
Lambeosaurus has not been a hot topic in recent studies. The reason is not that Lambeosaurus has been entirely researched and figured out. Instead, Lambeosaurus has simply not been a big player in...
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Crest Conundrum
Adapted from Nobu TamuraCrests (and sails) are perplexing in a vast array of taxa. In dinosaurs the existence of any kind of crest divides and destroys goodwill toward other scientists in some cricles...
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Toys and Games
There are more mentions of Lambeosaurus in games and toys than there are in any other popular media of any sort. They appear in books from time to time and documentaries even more frequently, but their...
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Differences in Dinosaur Heads
©John SibbickHadrosaurs of all shapes and sizes have unique features, as we know for any given taxon, and many of them sport some sort of crest above their heads. Strangely, considering the prevalence...
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More Chinese Lizards
Any dinosaur with Sino- in the genus or species has a history of some sort that is related to or originated in China. That, of course, is important given that this week's dinosaur is very prominently...
View ArticleConfusion and Facts
Sinosaurus has confused many people over the years. The fossil is not entirely to blame; evolving phylogenetics have pushed apart Sinosaurus and its morphologically similar cousin Dilophosaurus....
View ArticleWeird Video List
The videos associated with Sinosaurus are as few in number as the fact pages. There are a number of good papers, but that will come tomorrow. Today there are only a handful of videos that are worth...
View ArticleTeeth, Tracks, and Crests
Sinosaurus has left its mark across much of China and a great deal of paleontology that has been published from China. The literal mark making is documented in trackways, though these are rare...
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Casually Walking
Early theropods did not need to be as enormous as Tyrannosaurus for a number of reasons, chief among them being that their prey was not nearly as large as the mega-sauropods and ceratopsians of later...
View ArticleSinosaurus Shown Complete
One of the positives of being similar to another fossil animal is that that fossil animal's skeleton can inform missing and destroyed elements of the animal that it is comparable to. Sinosaurus...
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Heads and Tails
To start discussing the body in more skeletal detail, the tails of Dilophosaurus are well known. The holotype animal is actually quite nearly complete. This is somewhat rare for large fossil animals,...
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Adding More to the Long History
©Luiz FernandoThis week we are literally adding a longer entry into the annals of Dinosaur of the Week. There are a lot of sauropod remains in the fossil record and we have discussed many of those...
View ArticleThe Amazing Amazonsaurus
Amazonsaurus is not a very complete dinosaur. It is, though, well known as a very rare dinosaur from northern Brazil. That gathers a considerable following somewhere on the account of the scarcity of...
View ArticleBrazilian Dinosaurs
Amazonsaurus has a 45 minute documentary that tells all about the dinosaur from discovery to description and beyond. The only problem with it is that the entire documentary is in, I am fairly confident...
View ArticleHonorable Mentions
Amazonsaurus makes appearances in many studies and summarizing papers where it is discussed in relation to whatever other sauropod or animal that they were compared to. The only paper that is really...
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What Do You Look Like
The problematic part of fragmentary fossil remains cannot be narrowed down to a single area of study. One thing that certainly suffers is our capability to interpret what an animal looked like as an...
View ArticleNot so Popular
Amazonsaurus is popular for being a rare find in northern Brazil and it is also popular for containing enough material that it could be diagnosed to a genus. Amazonsaurus, for these reasons, is not...
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Roy Chapman Andrews' Champion
When Henry Fairfield Osborn named Andrewsarchus mongoliensis in honor of Roy Chapman Andrews, he did not realize how long it would take for the general public to recognize and love the truly strange...
View ArticleSites to Avoid
Andrewsarchus makes an appearance on a number of websites. Some of those are not exactly the kinds of sites that we want to get facts from. Therefore, ignoring the message boards with dinosaurs...
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