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Tag Archives: Birds
Reconstruction Deconstruction
As an artist, I view the world through an interpretive lens, not merely how I might depict a thing or what reaction I might get, but how I might see things in different lights; one has to be a little … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Paleontology, Reconstruction
Tagged Birds, Is [blank] an oviraptorosaur?, Oviraptorosaurs
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More Bird Jaws…
A quick post, on what I would prefer to be a “big post” day, due to focus on my oviraptorid study and other projects (but still about jaws and stuff). This one is also about jaws — surprise! — in … Continue reading
Oviraptorids and Cranial Morphometrics 2: Reloaded
Hot on the heels of my post on how cranial morphometric analyses of theropods end up excluding oviraptorids from them, a new paper ups the ante. (Of course, I do not mean that these papers actively exclude oviraptorids, but rather … Continue reading
Posted in Morphometrics, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Science Reporting
Tagged Birds, Oviraptorids, Oviraptorosaurs, Theropods
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The Beak is NOT a Lie
The turtles and birds are the only living archosaurian animals today with a “beak,” a keratinized rhamphotheca covering the margins of the jaw [n1]. These features are associated with a lack of teeth, which has caused a question of correlation: … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biological Comparison, Biology, Paleobiology, Reconstruction
Tagged Birds, Rhamphotheca
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Dromaeosaurs are Terrestrial Hawks
Denver Fowler and colleagues have just published a series of papers dealing with the reconstruction of predatory behavior as indicated by the proportions, curvature, and anatomy of the pes in theropod dinosaurs. They began this study investigating birds, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Science Reporting
Tagged Birds, Diet, Dromaeosaurs, Predation, Troodontids
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Were There European Oviraptorosaurs?
You may have heard of this in a few sites recently, most notably at Darren Naish’s Tetrapod Zoology. If you haven’t, check it out along with Matt Martynuik’s take on what kind of animal Darren is talking about, which is … Continue reading
A Mess of Archaeopteryx – WP#4
With two new studies on Archaeopteryx in the news, I thought I’d share my piece on them, by way of introducing my Archaeopteryx Mural. Based on detailed examination of (unfortunately) photographs, I’ve managed to look at, measure, and compare each … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Comparison, Paleontology
Tagged Archaeopteryx, Birds, Theropods
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Jaime A. Headden
