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Tag Archives: Integument
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
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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
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Biggest Crests in Town
I’ve been on a pterosaur kick lately, especially focusing on “tapejaroids” — and only tangentially related to my recent report of the first European tapejaroid, Europejara olcadesorum — those pterosaurs that split off from azhdarchids with the crazy huge nasoantorbital … Continue reading
The Squirrel Imitator
Ok, so I get why Oliver Rauhut and crew named their new theropod dinosaur, a purported megalosauroid, Sciurumimus albersdoerferi. It has all the appreciative charm of being cute, fluffy, and the specimen is preserved with its tail up and over … Continue reading
Long Fluffy Tails
While the news is abuzz about new things in the paleontological circles (a new South American tyrannosaurine [which has yet to be published], a new tapejaroid pterosaur from the fantastic beds of Las Hoyas, Spain named Europejara olcadesorum) there is … Continue reading
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
Enquilled
It’s kinda of a mystery, and I’m not sure I can solve it, but…
Dinosaurs of the Morrison Had No Lips … or Did They?
Just a minor post. I wanted to present a portion of a larger project on attempting to illustrate typical dinosaurs (especially ornithischians), and I thought “What better method than that well-sampled and intriguing Morrison Formation and its remarkable diversity?” So … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Reconstruction
Tagged Beaks, Integument, Ornithischians
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Ornithischians with “Dinofuzz”
This isn’t really that much of a post — for now. I’m preempting a longer unprepared post on the topic, which will not detail any views I may or may not have on the purpose of filamentous integument in a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Paleontology, Reconstruction
Tagged Integument, Polar dinosaurs, TLS
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Jaime A. Headden
