Anatomy of A Mouse Lizard
The first article that appears in a Google Scholar search for Mussaurus is Pol and Powell's 2011 paper Skull anatomy of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of...
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Fame and Mice
As we have stated this week, Mussaurus is well-known among paleontologists and it is actually fairly well-known by the public as well. This is partly because of its bogus claim of being the smallest...
View ArticleSkeletons and Popular Literature
A few years ago a book was written called The Unfeathered Bird that was focused on the anatomy of birds, showing birds as they are not often seen in popular literature. The illustrations for the book...
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Classy Introductions
In order to name something, you need to be able to define the parameters of that thing ā to know categorically when it ceases to be one thing and becomes another.- Page 8, Unnatural SelectionĀ Every...
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New Week
I intended to discuss the book Unnatural Selection more than I was able to last week, but I received an email that has kept me fairly bust since last Monday or Tuesday. Instead of spending multiple...
View ArticleLiving Relatives
The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina numbers approximately 3,000 animals remaining in the wild. This is important for a number of reasons, but the most important...
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All Feathered
Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus (Runner of Kulinda + the Russian subject of Zabaykalsky Krai) was a Jurassic ornithischian, an herbivore, and was found in Russia and described in 2014 by Godefroit et al....
View ArticleA Runner in Motion
On this beautiful, but very hot, Sunday, watch some nice fact videos and a slideshow of scientific illustrations of Kulindadromeus. Do not let my short entry here belittle the facts on these videos:I...
View ArticleMore Popular Movies
Yesterday I posted some fact videos. Today, there are some informational videos that tell you about reconstructing the dinosaur and the feather structures that were discovered in the fossil material.
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Imagery
The majority of posts lately have been the kind of posts I can do with minimal research, you may have noticed. This is because I am doing a lot more work in my personal life and career than I had been...
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Snakes and Fossils
In 2010 Jeffrey Wilson and colleagues described a fossil snake found in the Western Indian state of Gujarat outside the village of Dholi Dungri. That snake is known as "Ancient Gape" or, in Sanskrit,...
View ArticleDinosaur Train Facts
Dinosaur Train delivered facts are always a nice short video full of facts that we can rely on. If that video is not enough there is also the ThoughtCo fact page.
View ArticleI Forgot Yesterday
Yesterday I had a video with Jeffrey Wilson all lined up and then I forgot to post it. So therefore, here today is Dr. Wilson talking about the large sauropod eating snake Sanajeh. He is seated next to...
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Different -aroo
The kangaroos now exists as two species in one genus in Australia (and outside too as zoo animals and, increasingly, as pets). However, like any living animal, the kangaroos have ancestors, and a lot...
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The Frightful Lizard
The "Frightful Lizard", Daspletosaurus consists of two recognized species: D. torosus Russell 1970 and D. horneri Carr et al. 2017. Daspletosaurus was at the top of its game during the LateĀ Cretaceous...
View ArticleFacts and Cartoons
I'm A Dinosaur did a little bit less packing in of the facts on Daspletosaurus than they typically do, however it is still entertaining and has some facts for everyone.The facts are well represented...
View ArticleDaspletosaurus Appears on Television
Daspletosaurus was an interesting tyrannosaurid for a number of reasons. One of the reasons that has been explored was that Daspletosaurus was contemporaneous with another tyrannosaurid, Gorgosaurus...
View ArticlePseudosuchian Archosaurs
Rather than spend today telling the intrepid readers (and viewers of videos) what a pseudosuchian is and is not, I present to you today videos that show, describe, and discuss Revueltosaurus.The genus...
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Pug-o-dile
The pug nosed crocodile, Simosuchus clarki (Buckley et al. 2000) is named for its short and blunt snout. Recovered from the Mahajanga Province of Madagascar, the small (2.5 ft; 0.75 m) crocodylomorph...
View ArticleWell Done Videos
Probably not the group that we would normally turn to here to get facts and videos, the Expeditioner's Discovery Guild is a channel on YouTube that has a lot of wide-ranging videos. One of their videos...
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