Pyrotherium on Paper
The number of articles on Pyrotherium is actually impressive considering the small amount of attention it has garnered online and in the general populace. Description of new species and important...
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Pyrotherium's Head
The head of Pyrotherium is illustrated with a short trunk or a long nose, depending on one's particular definition of the word trunk. That appendage is not preserved on any of the known skulls of...
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Quality Tapir-like Fire Beasts
Robert Bruce Horsfall, 1913There are surprisingly a lot of images of reconstructions and interpretations of Pyrotherium posted online. As one of those fossil mammals that is slightly less popular, it...
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The Gigantic Snake
The Titanic Boa is not necessarily a clever basis for a name, but Titanoboa cerrejonensis (specifically named for the CerrejĆ³n Formation from which it was recovered) is exactly what its name implies: a...
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Everyone loves good facts about fossil snakes. The evolutionary history of snakes is actually coming to light in recent years and recent studies which is of great importance to what we know of both...
View ArticleThe Monster Snake
Titanoboa generated a lot of interest when it was first described and the illustrations and recreations were first unleashed on the world. In 2012 the Smithsonian Channel released a documentary about...
View ArticleTitanoboa on Paper
Titanoboa has been the subject of many different sorts of articles from pure description to interesting paleoclimate discussions. The hypotheses concerning life history of the snake are also of...
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The Long Remains
Jonathon Bloch with Titanoboa and Anaconda vertebrae. Ā©Natural History MagazineThe finding of Titanoboa was significant for vertebrate, South American, and herpetological paleontology to name just a...
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The Charmer Snake
Through no mistake has Titanoboa become a popular fossil snake. The sheer size alone is enough to make people ooh and ahh over the giant reptile and the popularity that followed is entirely expected....
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Too Much Titanoboa
Ā©Jason BourqueTo finish out the past week we need to look at some of the beautiful paintings and sculptures of Titanoboa. The artistic interpretations and scientific recreations of the snake show the...
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Legislative Dinosaurs
Photo provided to Arkansas Geological Society by ReBecca K. Hunt-FosterIn the past few months there have been a lot of dinosaur stories circulating in the popular news and one of the most relevant to...
View ArticleArkansas Geological Survey Facts
The Arkansas Geological Survey (AGS) has a large number of publications and fact sheets describing the state dinosaur and other geological wonders of the state. As a somewhat obscure dinosaur, there...
View ArticleShort News Piece Day
Movie Monday is not going to have a movie or a documentary today. Arkansaurus was not, and is not, famous enough to have influenced any documentaries or movies despite its status as a symbol for a...
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Everyone's Arkansaurus
There are only a very few widely circulated recreations and illustrations of the little known dinosaur Arkansaurus. The majority of these are variations on a dinosaur that looks very much like the...
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Early Archosaurs of the Triassic
Pavel.Riha.CB at the English language WikipediaLagosuchus talampayensis is an early archosaur recovered from the Triassic rocks of Argentina. The ChaƱares Formation represents the Middle Triassic (230...
View ArticleQuick Lists of Facts
Lagosuchus, dubious name or not, has a lot of pages dedicated to it online describing the animal or relaying short lists of facts. Today I will simply share a video that summarizes what many of these...
View ArticleDescriptions and Opinions
Lagosuchus remains, questionable and otherwise, have been described and analyzed many times over. Due to the controversial nature of the remains and phylogeny of Lagosuchus there are not many articles...
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Incomplete Remains
The known remains that are still attributed to Lagosuchus are comprised of a single hind leg, a few vertebrae, and a scapula. The hindleg is gracile and slender, indicating that the basal archosaur was...
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Lagosuchus is well known throughout the paleontology and throughout the popular dinosaur and fossil enthusiast circles. The general public may have heard the name of the archosaur, but not as regularly...
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Subspecies of Lions
The list of subspecies attributed to lions actually encompasses some of the fossil species of lion that we are going to discuss this week. Rather than discuss the three distinct groups of cave lion...
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