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Bossy Anatomy
The key feature of Pachyrhinosaurus is its wonderful nasal boss. That boss gives the dinosaur its name ("Thick-nosed Lizard") and also serves as a major point of contention among paleontologists....
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Classical Art
As one of the more well known ceratopsians, in recent years at least, Pachyrhinosaurus has influenced a lot of modern dinosaur art. Possibly one of the most dynamic of these images is this illustration...
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Alvarez and Argentina
The small insectivore Alvarezsaurus calvoi was a bipedal theropod with a long tail that was built like a running machine. The little speedsters ran around Argentina from approximately 86 - 83 million...
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Alvarezsaurus can be drawn, like any other dinosaur, and there are instructions on how to do so online in the 123Peppy drawing series. The website is actually geared toward entertainment, games, and...
View ArticleA Minor Role
Alvarezsaurus has had only a small role in a documentary so far. The documentary is Dinosaur Planet and the small dinosaur appears in the fourth episode. Its role is as a small predator, obviously, of...
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Not Online
The original Bonaparte 1991 description of Alvarezsaurus calvoi is not online in any easily accessible place. There are a number of early 1990's taxa that are missing their initial descriptions online,...
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Interesting Anatomy of Small Dinosaurs
The number of specimens and the preservation of those specimens is enough to make a few concrete observations about the anatomy of Alvarezsaurus that we can discuss today. The vertebrae, especially the...
View ArticleThe Famed Alvarezsaurus
Perhaps the most famous thing about Alvarezsaurus is the fact that we know it exists. Beyond its improper placement in a documentary there is no other film or television placement of the dinosaur. The...
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A Different Version
(C) Gabriel (Kana-hebi)To end the week of Alvarezsaurus, looking at an alternative view of the dinosaur lends us to some more insight as to how different people have interpreted the skeleton and...
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Looking the Same
One of the things that sauropods are generally criticized for looking extremely similar to one another and being composed of highly fragmentary remains. These kinds of generalizations can be applied to...
View ArticleShort Readings
Jobariatiguidensis is a dinosaur with few lists and many paragraphs. The links for the dinosaur, therefore, are all reading selections rather than lists of facts. This includes sites like Enchanted...
View ArticleJobaria in Cartoons
There is only a single video that shows Jobaria other than the video shared yesterday. There are a few tribute videos that are nothing more than a stream of photographs and illustrations. That other...
View ArticleJobarian Literature
There are a number of papers on Jobaria that are worth mentioning today. The first is the description of Jobaria. There are other papers as well, though not as many as one might think considering that...
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Rearing Up
The mythology on the monster Jobar is rather thin online. However, we know a great deal about the anatomy and general morphology of Jobaria even without knowing if it really looks anything like its...
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Jobaria Drawn
A lot of illustrations of Jobaria are typical for sauropods; a giant lumbering dinosaur holding its head high at the end of its long neck with its tail held out behind it. This illustrated posture is...
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African Predators
Bahariasaurus ingens was unearthed and recovered by the team of Ernst Stromer during the early 1930's. Like many of Stromer's African discoveries, this North African dinosaur was described during 1934...
View ArticleBahariasaurus Tributes
Bahariasaurus is not as famous as the other North African dinosaurs like Spinosaurus that are often portrayed in documentaries and movies. Because of this Bahriasaurus has slipped through the popular...
View ArticleBahariasaurus Movies
There are no actual movies for Bahariasaurus. Rather than wasting time complaining or offering strange alternatives, here are two tribute videos with a series of photos of the animal. The two videos...
View ArticlePaperless Dinosaurs
Bahariasaurus has all but been destroyed in the modern age. Allied bombing took the original material and time, war, and a lack of preservation has made the illustrations and writings of Ernst Stromer...
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Understanding Size
I mentioned the other day that there are little to no known pieces of evidence of the original Bahariasaurus remains that Ernst Stromer brought back from Northern Africa to Germany. There is, however,...
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