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Tag Archives: Diet
Facial Expressions
The various and many ways to make a “cheek,” and the various facial tissues for which we have primary (preserved remains) and secondary (inferred) evidence for, in fossil sauropsidans. (These images are CC-BY-ND-NC. Please don’t take them without permission.)
Posted in Art, Biological Comparison, Biology, Biomechanics, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Reconstruction
Tagged Birds, Cheeks in Dinosaurs, Diet, Integument, Lips, Lizards and Snakes, Ornithischians, Uromastyx
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A Short Piece on Piscivores – Not All The Same
So you think you know a piscivore if you saw one? Not so fast. Take a look: Piscivores come in a large array of sizes and morphologies. Not all have teeth. Some are slender-snouted, others broad. What mostly defines a … Continue reading
Posted in Biological Comparison, Biology, Paleoecology, Paleontology, Terminology
Tagged Amphibians, Bats, Better Know a Diet, Billfish, Birds, Cetaceans, Crocodilians, Diet, Elasmosaurs, Fish, Mammals, Piscivory, Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, Sharks, Snakes, Turtles
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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
Oviraptorid Jaw Muscles Described, Part 2
In the last post, I discussed the one jaw to cranium muscle that isn’t a depressor that bears on its mechanics (m. depressor mandibular, or mDM) and the palatal and psuedotemporal groups of muscles (m. pterygoideus and m. psuedotemporalis, respectively). … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Biomechanics, Paleontology
Tagged Cranial Anatomy, Diet, Oviraptorosaurs
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Placodonts Are Also Cool
As I mentioned in another post on placodonts, these armored, vaguely turtle-like archosauromorphans can get pretty odd. Most investigation of placodont biology has been superficial, which is to say exterior examination or at the least histological work on the limb … Continue reading
More Eaters of Ammonites
I posted earlier my initial skull reconstruction of the durophagous mosasaur Globidens dakotensis (here), but it occurs to me that I’ve not done so to the updated version of the skull that now appears on the banner above, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Reconstruction
Tagged Diet, Durophagy, Mosasaurs
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Osborn Was Right
I am not going to go into too much detail with this post. Following recent discussion on the applicability of blogs as distributors of information, I am going to try a tactic whereby I outline an argument I’ve been cultivating … Continue reading
Posted in Paleobiology, Paleontology
Tagged Diet, Feeding, Oviraptorids, Oviraptorosaurs, Predation
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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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Jaime A. Headden
The Bite Stuff 