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Yearly Archives: 2014
Giving Oviraptorosaurs a Hand
[Caption of this figure is pretty long, so it’s placed at the bottom.] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Last year, when dealing with the apparent basal oviraptorid Wulatelong gobiensis (Xu et al., 2013) … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Paleontology, Reconstruction
Tagged Caeangnathoids, caenagnathids, Caudipterids, Hands, Oviraptorids, Oviraptorosaurs, Protarchaeopterygids
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Pterosaur, Inter-Modulated
When Helmut Tischlinger and Eberhard “Dino” Frey team up for a paper, you know it’s gonna be good. Almost certainly, there will be UV involved. The pterosaur fossils of the Solnhofen are especially UV reflective, which brings out obscure or … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Biomechanics, Paleontology
Tagged Pterodactyloids, Pterosaurs, Rhamphorhynchoids, Wukongopterids
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Anzū is Here
In 1998 and 1999 two skeletons were collected from the badlands of the Great Plains of South Dakota, USA. Discovered by Fred Nuss barely 80m apart, they would go on to be one of the most intriguing and strong denizens … Continue reading
Posted in Paleontology, Science Reporting
Tagged Anzu, Anzu wyliei, caenagnathids, Caenagnathoidea, Oviraptorosaurs
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Better Know a Diet
Everyone eats, everyone consumes. Everything consumes. Regardless of whether you’re a bacterium or a tree or a giant tyrannosaur, organisms consume parts of other things to produce energy to live. Sometimes, those “things” are other organisms. When organisms are sufficiently … Continue reading
Long-Awaited Responses, and Orpheus
In a little while, you dear reader will see what this is a part of. If you know what these are, then you’ll know what they have in common and thus why they’re being shown. But the answer isn’t tricky: … Continue reading
A Saw in the Jaw of a Sea-God
The Devonian was a time of wonder and mystique. The Age of Fishes, it capped the rise of vertebrates and heralded the rise of skeletal diversity. Fish in this age began to inch towards the shore; some would have crawled … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Comparison
Tagged Arthrodires, Biting, Facial Reconstruction, Integument, Jaws, Lips, Placoderms, Speculation
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A Skull For Rhamphorhynchus, Part Two
My last post on Rhamphorhynchus muensteri‘s skull elicited some dialogue on the dietary preferences one might infer from looking at Rhamphorhynchus‘s skull. This was done regardless of the preservation of gut remains or implied habitus. In preparation of a larger … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Reconstruction
Tagged Incredulous teeth, Jaws, Pterosaurs, Rhamphorhynchus, Rhamphorhynchus muensteri, Teeth
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The Scaled Mammal
Today is World Pangolin Day; a day to reflect on the endangered, but also incredibly interesting and special nature of this mammal (here’s Dr. John Hutchinson of What’s in John’s Freezer on the many peculiarities of pangolins). The pangolin, Manis … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Philosophy, Reconstruction
Tagged Edentulousness, Jaws, Mammals, Manis, Pangolins, World Pangolin Day
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Jaime A. Headden
The Bite Stuff 