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Lizard of Yunnan
Yunnanosaurus is a special prosauropod. Facultatively bipedal and sporting sixty spoon shaped teeth, this was a dinosaur well adapted for its world and solidly laying the evolutionary body frame for...
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Back Next Week
My apologies folks. I've been considerably busier the past week than usual and haven't had time to write here. I'll be back next week, but for now, here's my excuse note for not writing!
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Missed Dinosaur?
©Everything DinosaurI looked back over my posts and I know that at some point, in the older version of this blog, I had covered Tyrannosaurus rex. However, in the new version of the blog there is no...
View ArticleFactosaurus
Popularity makes writing this almost farcical with some dinosaurs; I could easily just place links and videos in here all day long with a dinosaur like Tyrannosaurus and spend no time at all working on...
View ArticleThe Veritable Movie Star
Tyrannosaurus rex appears in more movies, documentaries, and other film roles than any other dinosaur or fossil creature. There are a few that come close (e.g. Triceratops, Stegosaurus) but none of...
View ArticleTyrannosaur Paper Trail
The study of Tyrannosaurus has been conducted across fields, disciplines, and a rather immense amount of time (considering the field of paleontology). This is a normal situation for an animal that is...
View ArticleTyrannosaurus Anatomy
The general shape of Tyrannosaurus is known to everyone that has ever seen anything labeled as a dinosaur. The dinosaur itself is more complicated than its general outline of course, and this is a very...
View ArticleTyrannosaurus Popularity
We all know that Tyrannosaurus is a very popular dinosaur and the list of known attributes of the dinosaur, both anatomical and ecological, is growing regularly. The literature, professional, amateur,...
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The Modern Tyrannosaurus
Modern illustrations of Tyrannosaurus have included feathers for a fairly long time but even prior to the inclusion of feathers Tyrannosaurus was ever evolving in its illustrated representations. The...
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Ending the Year in Fashion
The dinosaur calendar ends the year in a big way. Instead of a single animal to close out December we have two well-known and previously discussed dinosaurs to cover over the next two weeks. The...
View ArticleKid Friendly
Barosaurus is a very kid friendly dinosaur. There are fact pages all over the internet ranging from more amateur sites like KidsDinos to the borderline professional web pages of About (no offense to...
View ArticleBarosaurus Showing Off
Barosaurus has not appeared in any movies but it has appeared on television, in video games, and makes many appearances in home movies (which is what YouTube basically is) because it is a popular...
View ArticleOld Information and New Information
The earliest results of a search for papers discussing or describing Barosaurus date back to 1919 (and before, but the earliest result in search is 1919). This Richard Swan Lull book, a redescription...
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The Tall Tale
Barosaurus has interesting anatomy for a sauropod (typically long necks and tails, and fat bodies are all most people think about when they see these animals. One of the most interesting things about...
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Making It Popular
There is no solid reason, just looking at Barosaurus, as to why it has become such a popular dinosaur among dinosaur enthusiasts. Barosaurus does not have the largest body, teeth, claws, or any strange...
View ArticleGurche's Barosaurus
The entry hall to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, is centered around a Barosaurus rearing up and facing an Allosaurus. The scene has been captured in a...
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One More Week in December
The second half of the dinosaur calendar this month is a dinosaur that is closely related to last week's Barosaurus in many ways, including environment, the era in which it lived, and their...
View ArticleFacts for Christmas
Because I know a lot of people are busy with major holidays or family time this weekend, I am going to post two videos with facts about Allosaurus rather than posting a long-winded entry today. These...
View ArticleDocumentary Star
Where Tyrannosaurus is a full on movie star, Allosaurus is a documentary and television dinosaur phenom. Despite the number of appearances of Tyrannosaurus on television being considerable, lately the...
View ArticleNews About Allosaurus
Allosaurus appears in a lot of research and therefore in a lot of papers. The dinosaur also appears in a lot of books, but we will save those for Thursday. Allosaurus has been the subject of finite...
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