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The Diamantinasaurus in the cave: definitely unfamiliar this time
Trust me, you want to click for the full effect. This post is just an excuse for me to show off Brian Engh’s entry for the All Yesterdays contest (book here, contest–now closed–here). The title is a...
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What an articulated giraffe neck looks like
The cervical series of Giraffa camelopardalis angolensis FMNH 34426, articulated by Mike and me and photographed by Mike back in the summer of 2005, cropped and composited by me recently, not...
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Specimen photos with desaturated backgrounds
Generally when we present specimen photos in papers, we cut out the backgrounds so that only the bone is visible — as in this photo of dorsal vertebrae A and B of NHM R5937 “The Archbishop”, an as-yet...
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Oblivious sauropods being eaten, part 2: Bakker’s snoozing brontosaur
From The Dinosaur Heresies. Part 1.
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Self-study: the atlas-axis complex in sauropods
I was at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in March to look at their Apatosaurus material, so I got to see the newly-mounted baby apatosaur in the “Clash of the Titans” exhibit (more photos of...
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Beards of the Mesozoic: Bob Nicholls edition
We’ve blogged a lot of Bob Nicholls‘ art (here, here, and here) and we’ll probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future. We don’t have much choice: he keeps drawing awesome things and giving...
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The first ever adequately illustrated vertebra of Giraffatitan
Janensch’s (1950) paper on the vertebral column of Giraffatitan (which he called Brachiosaurus brancai, wrongly as it turns out) is in many ways a superb piece of work. Together with a separate paper...
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All right, then, this is the first ever adequately illustrated vertebra of...
I thought I’d done a decent job of illustrating MB.R.2180:C5 last time, but Wedel was not satisfied, demanding ventral and right-lateral views as well as the provided right lateral, anterior, posterior...
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Brian Engh: Stomp time!
Because “here’s that Brian Engh sketch of a sauropod literally stomping the guts out of a theropod you ordered” was a bit ungainly for a post title. Here we have Futalognkosaurus sporting some...
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“Phat air meets wide gauge” meets color
Mark Witton, pterosaur-wrangler, Cthulhu-conjurer, globe-trotting paleo playboy and all-around scientific badass, drew this (and blogged about it): I liked it, but I thought it could use some color, so...
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Sauropods stomping theropods: Bryan Riolo’s Chaos Gigantes
This beauty is by Bryan Riolo, aka Algoroth on DeviantART, who also let me use his giant space Cthulhu for my Collect Call of Cthulhu over on Echo Station 5-7. Update: and here, belatedly, is a link...
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Rocky the Rock’s guide to the rock cycle
For a palaeontology blog, we don’t talk a lot about geology. Time to fix that, courtesy of my middle son Matthew, currently 13 years old, who made this helpful guide to the rock cycle as Geology...
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SV-POW! fan-art? Yes, that’s a thing now
I just found out — thanks to a tweet from abertonykus — that this exists: That’s me on top of the Giraffatitan, Matt to the right, and Darren swinging from its wattle. It’s the work of classicalguy on...
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Dödös need röck döts
It’s a strange time of year for me. Teaching and SVP are both behind me, my tenure dossier is in (I’ll find out how that goes next April, probably), and for the first time in a while, I’m not...
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Vicki’s book, Broken Bones, is out!
When we last left my better half, Dr. Vicki Wedel, she was helping to identify a Jane Doe who had been dead for 37 years by counting growth rings in the woman’s teeth. That case nicely illustrated...
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Tutorial 17: preparing illustrations. Part 3: adding shading to röck döts
In his post on Vicki’s new book Broken Bones, Matt told us his twelve-step process for producing stippled illustrations like this one of a crushed skull, which became the cover image of the book: As...
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Caudal pneumaticity in sauropods: in praise of actually looking at fossils
“Look at all the things you’ve done for me Opened up my eyes, Taught me how to see, Notice every tree.” So sings Dot in Move On, the climactic number of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning music...
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Playing with Sauroposeidon photos
Following on from Matt’s post about the difficulty of photographing big specimens without distortion, I thought I’d have a play with our best Sauroposeidon C8 photo, which I think is this one: (That’s...
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Can PeerJ really be only a year old?
Today (12th February) is the one-year anniversary of the first PeerJ papers! As Matt put it in an email this morning: Hard to believe it’s been a year already. On the other hand, it’s also hard to...
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