The Author
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. It, and all of its files and contents -- unless otherwise noted -- are protected by this license.License established 9/9/2012, while previously I was using a CC-BY-ND license instead.
I have two websites, my DeviantArt and RedBubble accounts, which allow downloads and purchase of the imagery presented on this site. As I am a starving artist, I would appreciate support this way.
Category Archives: Taphonomy
The Fisherman & the Sinosauropteryx
When dealing with research from a particular few scientists – namely, the BANDits – none of them intrigue me more than the work of Theagarten Lingham-Soliar (hereafter, TLS). It isn’t just that the subject matter is intriguing (structure of skin, … Continue reading
Posted in Paleontology, Taphonomy
Tagged Feathers, Integument, Origin of Birds, Preservation, TLS
16 Comments
“Toroceratops” Matters, as an Open Discussion
So there’s this debate, which I may have discussed — more than once, twice, or thrice – before, in which it is argued that the taxa Triceratops and Torosaurus represent young adult and old adult representatives of the same species. … Continue reading
Posted in Paleontology, Philosophy, Taphonomy, Taxonomy
Tagged Ceratopsians, ontogeny, Taxo, Triceratops
12 Comments
The Enfluffening
As we dig deeper into the past and our investigative techniques broaden and our perspectives with it, biological aspects of ancient life become more and more interesting. Of the most visual of these is the presence of non-scaly integument in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Paleobiology, Reconstruction, Taphonomy
Tagged Dinosaurs, Integument, Speculation
18 Comments
On the Structure of Fossil Feathers
Here’s a short piece, in part inspired by discussions with Matt Martynuick at DinoGoss on the reasoning for why we attach terms like “stage 1″ to fossil “feathers.”
Canadian Amber, Fin-Tailed Dinosaurs, and a Despairing Blogger
Science, as a process, promotes an adversarial system. A scientist poses an hypothesis from an observation, then attempts to refute this hypothesis through further observations arrived at from experimentation and testing, and poses a further hypothesis from the results; if … Continue reading
Bupkis
Bupkis n. (alt. sp. bupkus, bupkiss) [Yid. באָבקעס bobkes, “(large) beans”] 1. absolutely nothing; nothing of value, significance, or substance. [Wiktionary] Ex.: We searched for hours and found bupkis. 2. ”nothing,” zip, zilch, zero. [Urban Dictionary] Ex.: I’ve got bupkiss.
Jaime A. Headden
