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Tag Archives: Theropods
SVP in North Carolina — Maybe Next Year, in LA
This year’s annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) just recently ended, with from what I hear was another smashing banquet and after-party. Most people usually get smashed in one way or another Saturday night as the banquet … Continue reading
Tyrannosaurus Publicity
There’s a trope in media whereby using a famous figure for advertisement, viewers have a tendency to associate that figure instead of anything the advertisement might actually contain. Celebrity sells. In American comics, for example, this is called “Wolverine Publicity,” … 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
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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Incredulous Teeth, I: With Twin Crests
Here begins a new series. I will be spending some time showcasing the skulls of unusually-dentitioned animals (or showing the peculiar jaws of these animals, specially if they lack teeth). The first of these is Dilophosaurus wetherilli.
Southern Raptors II: Grooves, Cones, and Carinae
When dealing with incompletely preserved or incompletely prepared material, superficial statements are often used to describe a feature so that it can be “assessed” by the readers in some fashion. Take, for example, the following image:
Posted in Paleontology, Science Reporting
Tagged Diet, Dromaeosaurs, Teeth, Theropods
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Southern Raptors: Not What They Seem
Unenlagiidae is the name commonly used to envelop a small cadre of southern, Gondwana-only theropods. Recently, some papers have been published that cast new perspectives on these taxa, including a review of the group. Some forthcoming papers even concern the … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Comparison, Paleontology, Science Reporting
Tagged Theropods, Unenlagiidae
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Spinosaurus – a Hint
So last year, I illustrated a series of vertebrae into a novel arrangement, using a variety of cues to inform my decision. Note that this was done in order peek at a topic I’ve been hashing around in regards to … Continue reading
Better Know a [Aussie] – The Rainbow Serpent of Oz
L. Frank Baum might roll in his grave if I alluded to gay dinosaurs in Oz. Well, insofar as dinosaurs with rainbow-colored bones from Oz (aka, Australia) might be considered “gay.” But that’s just what Kakuru kujani is … a … Continue reading
Jaime A. Headden
