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What About the Nose
Macrauchenia has a long flexible rostrum. The skeleton of the animal does not possess any fossilized structures that show this, however the evidence for the attachment of soft tissues corresponding to...
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Macrauchenia has been famous for a very long time and not entirely because the fossils were originally brought back to Europe by Darwin and the Beagle. The llama-esque body and trunk certainly added to...
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Hunting, not Trunkless
©Andreas/Elperdido1965The original intended image today was going to show Macrauchenia without a trunk. However, I did not hear from the illustrator and we do not put up paid artist's creations from...
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A Killing Beak
Due to mentioning the giant bird Andalgalornis yesterday and not knowing a whole lot about that particular genus, I think it is very important that we discuss this South American terror bird in this...
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A lot of videos featuring "terror birds" are about any number of combined South American taxa. The fact pages that exist for South American taxa of giant birds get confused the same way sometimes....
View ArticleBirds in Motion
Yesterday I only shared a very short clip of Andalgalornis that was much more general and discussed terror birds as a group rather than focusing only on what we know of Andalgalornis. There are videos...
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The Degrange and Tambussi Series
The Degrange and Tambussi series of papers on Phorusrhacid terror birds is not always those to authors or always in that order. The reason that the majority of papers are written by the two is that...
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On Being Pecked to Death
Andalgalornis we have seen is a voracious predator but had a rather unorthodox style of procuring its food, in terms of giant carnivorous birds. Possessing an akinetic skull with a large dense beak,...
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Sheer Power
Powerful giant birds have a tendency to be popular fossil animals. We can always assume that it is because the animal is a large frightening bird when we are discussing the so-called terror birds (or...
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Rule of Thumb
Generally as a rule I attempt to stay away from Crocodylomorpha not because I do not like the taxa (I actually like a lot of reptiles generally speaking) within the group but because the lab I work in...
View ArticleLate Sunday Facts
Despite the level of interest in crocodile-like reptiles of the past and present, there are not a lot of fact pages online for Araripesuchus. Considering how interesting the animal is with its...
View ArticleLovely Sculpture
There are two videos that I am going to share today. One is a WizScience video; meaning that it is one of the computer readings of facts in video form.The second video is, arguably, much cooler and...
View ArticleLove for Crocodilians
Araripesuchus is a well loved group of animals, in part because there are a lot of species in the genus that are represented by a lot of remains. There are newly describe species within the genus like...
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Where It Lives
Sixteen collections of Araripesuchus remains are recorded in the Fossilworks database online. Fossilworks does not have all of the collections of the fossils presented there meaning that there are more...
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Why Are You Famous?
The most well known of the species of Araripesuchus is A. wegeneri. Many quality specimens of this species exist and have been recovered including the block of a number of individuals interred together...
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New Images, Maybe?
Araripesuchus is almost always shown in some sort of trotting posture. Rarely is the imagery of an Araripesuchus eating or sleeping or doing anything other than trotting. Instead of digging up some...
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The Weird Limbed Astronaut
©Brynn MetheneyAbelisaurids have very small arms that are even stranger than the tiny arms of tyrannosaurs. The group includes some very ornamented and very strangely armed but well known theropods...
View ArticleCarnotaurus Facts
There are many ways to find information about a dinosaur as widely known as Carnotaurus. Those ways include normal fact sheets like those found at Enchanted Learning and About. The real value today is...
View ArticleCartoons and Serious Movies
Ranging from independent animated shorts like the simply titled Carnotaurus by Bennett Kim to serious feature length films, Carnotaurus is a film superstar.In the majority of films Carnotaurus is...
View ArticleFamed Papers
Carnotaurus is a dinosaur that is relatively famous but has somehow escaped the eye of the blog until very recently. Reading this post that is self evident as this week is entirely dedicated to...
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