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Get your relative-lengths-of-sauropod-necks T-shirts!
Are you a lover of sauropod necks? Do you long to demonstrate to your friends and family how much better[1] they are than the necks of other long-necked critters? Are you crazy for the Taylor and Wedel...
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Greatest. Video. Ever. Starring sauropod-on-theropod violence!
Inspired by Bob Nicholl’s brilliant sketch Failed Ambush, my son Matthew reinterpreted it in this video — also titled Failed Ambush. NOTE: this video is officially endorsed by Dr. Mathew J. Wedel, who...
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Frederik Spindler’s wooly brachiosaur
Aitor Ederra drew my attention to this painting by Frederik Spindler: It’s briefly discussed in a blog-post on changing norms in palaeo-art. (I think the blog is Spindler’s, but I can’t find...
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One articulated Sauroposeidon to go, hold the perspective distortion, with a...
Order up! Sauroposeidon is stitched together from orthographic views of the 3D photogrammetric models rendered in MeshLab. Greyed out bits of the vertebrae are actually missing–I used C8 to patch C7,...
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Poetry for paleontologists: In Memoriam A.H.H., Canto 123, by Alfred, Lord...
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From...
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The humerus of Brachiosaurus altithorax, part 1: the fossil
In the comments on Matt’s post about the giant new Argentine titanosaur specimens, Ian Corfe wondered why Benson et al. (2014) estimated the circumference of the humerus of Brachiosaurus altithorax...
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The humerus of Brachiosaurus altithorax, part 2: the museum mount
As we noted yesterday, the humerus of the Brachiosaurus altithorax holotype FMNH P25107 is inconveniently embedded in a plaster jacket — but it wasn’t always. That’s very strange. I have an idea about...
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The humerus of Brachiosaurus altithorax, part 3: the airport mount
Last time we looked at the humeri in the Field Museum’s mounted Brachiosaurus skeleton — especially the right humerus, which is a cast from the holotype, while the left is a sculpture. But Matt’s and...
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Gilles Danis of P.A.S.T on the Chicago Brachiosaurus mount
After P.A.S.T president Gilles Danis commented on our post about the Chicago airport Brachiosaurus mount, I got into an interesting email conversation with him. Here, posted with his kind permission...
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The Field Museum’s photo-archives tumblr, featuring: airbrushing dorsals
In recent photo posts on the mounted Brachiosaurus skeleton and its bones in the ground, I’ve lamented that the Field Museum’s online photo archive is so unhelpful: for example, if it has a search...
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Brian Engh is unleashing monsters
We feature a lot of Brian Engh’s stuff here–enough that he has his own category. But lately he has really been outdoing himself. The wave of awesome started last year, when Brian started posting videos...
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A beautiful Lego Diplodocus skeleton
Check out this beautiful Lego Diplodocus: (Click through for the full image at full size.) I particularly like the little touch of having of bunch of Lego Victorian gentleman scientists clustered...
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Xenoposeidon in glorious 3D
Get your red/cyan anaglyph glasses on, and feast your eyes: Click through for stupidly high resolution. Those of you who are still too cheap to have sprung 99¢ for a pair of glasses, you can make do...
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The revolution will be comic-booked
So, this is on the shelves right now. Underage anthropomorphic martial chelonian cargo notwithstanding, the Triceratops on the cover is pretty standard. The one on the inside is much less so. Or, at...
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SV-POW! showdown: Supersaurus vs Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus
This was inspired by an email Mike sent a couple of days ago: Remind yourself of the awesomeness of Giraffatitan: http://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/mike-by-jango-elbow.jpeg Now think of this....
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Please welcome Rukwatitan (over on Mark Witton’s blog)
I just read Mark Witton’s piece on the new new titanosaur Rukwatitan (as opposed to the old new titanosaur Dreadnoughtus). I was going to write something about it, but I realised that Mark has already...
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Spinosaurus fishiness, part n
UPDATE the next day: Since I published this post, it’s become clear that the similarities in the two images are in fact convergence. Davide Bonadonna got in touch with Mike and me, and he has been very...
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Guest post: the genesis of Davide Bonadonna’s Spinosaurus painting
In the last post I pointed out some similarities between Davide Bonadonna’s new Spinosaurus painting and Brian Engh’s Spinosaurus painting from 2010. I also suggested that Davide might have borrowed...
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Move over, All Yesterdays: It’s time for #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt!
Stupid painting takes too long. I should outsource this.— John Conway (@nyctopterus) September 16, 2013 .@nyctopterus Here you go: miketaylor.org.uk/tmp/art.jpeg That'll be £8, please.— Mike Taylor...
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The freakily consistent colour palette of Wedel and Taylor (2013) on caudal...
Back in 2013, when we were in the last stages of preparing our paper Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus (Wedel and Taylor 2013b), I...
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