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Back to Land!
"Oh, hello!"Basal stegosaur or Huayangosaurine, it does not really matter to Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis. In fact, this thyreophoran probably was not too worried about much of what was going on...
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Flying Stegosaurs
Prior to the readjustment of Gigantspinosaurus (I meant to admit yesterday that I find it very hard to not write "Gigant-o-spinosaurus" like its written in the figure caption) it appeared as though...
View ArticleSome Kids Links
It is really nice outside today, a little windy, but nice. However, until now, I have been locked inside studying (boo studying, yay good test scores!) . I plan on going on a walk soon, but before I...
View ArticleAnimatronics
I love finding videos that people shoot at little amusement parks or zoos, like the Memphis Zoo, that have seasonal dinosaur exhibits. Actually, the one at the Memphis Zoo is particularly well done and...
View ArticlePaper Day!
Everyone loves paper day. Today we have scholarly papers on Late Jurassic stegosaurs as well as mentions in evidence of early stegosaurs in China. A lot of the stegosaur papers that mention...
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Gigantic Spikes and Not Fully Grown
©Vladimir NikolovThe skeleton of Gigantspinosaurus with those wonderfully large spikes is not even thought to be an adult skeleton. Imagine if these spikes were still growing when this individual died....
View ArticleThe Charismatic Stego
From How to Draw Incredible Dinosaurs to its inclusion in Dinosaur King, Gigantspinosaurus has been made quite welcome in the popular culture of the world. Considering that it is little understood and...
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Tackling Another Tough Opponent
Long time readers know that I enjoy, perhaps even love, taking on difficult cases from time to time around here. This is actually becoming slightly more normal as we get lower in the popularity barrel...
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Looking at Skeletons
©Jaime A. HeaddenThe skeleton of Achillobator, as we have noted, is not complete. The fact that it was, and still is sometimes, thought to be a chimera is because the associated elements seem to come...
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A Nice Day for Coloring
After a very windy night I am quite happy to say I have quite a few good things to share today. I do not want to go into anatomy today; I know I said a few days this week I may not do the "normal"...
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Not A Video Day
©Jaime A. Headden (cropped for today)Movie Monday has a sad showing for Achillobator, which, given its low skeletal remains content, is not surprising but is unfortunate; this is a pretty fantastic...
View ArticleBooks, Birds, and Elusive Papers
Scientific writing. I am still trying to wrap my brain around it. Over my lifetime I have developed a style, and it can be seen here quite well, but lately I have been tasked with writing scientific...
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Close Cousins?
Utahraptor on top, Achillobator below. Used with permission as noted on the image.Taken from A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged DinosaursUtahraptor and Achillobator were related, somehow....
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A Good Giant Raptor Week
Looks a little naked thoughI shared the image I posted with my wife last night. She freaked out. Apparently birds bigger than people are not very appealing to her; admittedly Great-tailed Grackles kind...
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A Panoply of Armor
Uncredited (I am on the lookout for it)Back in January I discussed an infant dinosaur discovered in Maryland that came to be called Propanoplosaurus, meaning "before Panoplosaurus". Perhaps I should...
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A Long Day Ended
©Brian FranczakThis is a late entry because I just got back in in the last few hours from doing some work on a National Wildlife Refuge. They were counting species of everything on the refuge. I helped...
View ArticleThe Children's Nodosaur
Panoplosaurus is a child-friendly dinosaur. Not only does it look as though it would make a great pet; in the human world this is the sort of dinosaur that would undoubtedly be selectively bred as a...
View ArticleEarth Day Post!
Happy Earth Day friends! Today I have two videos I want to share with you. One is a short informational cartoon starring our friend Panoplosaurus, and the other is a short computer model of the cranium...
View ArticleSystematics and Panoplosaurus
Kenneth Carpenter wrote, a few years ago (1992 was the original publishing year), an article in a text collectively called Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives. The text as Carpenter...
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Lambe's Next Discovery
As has been discussed multiple times here, Lawrence Lambe was a prolific discoverer and describer of dinosaurs. Fortunately for him any rivalries he was a part of were not nearly as high profile as...
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