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Tag Archives: Feathers
A Brief Moment in Kulinda
Not that long ago, a new fossil locality was discovered in Kulinda, Chita (Chininskaya Oblast), Russia, and it has the potential to confirm a recent hypothesis: that the filamentous integument of many theropods, found apparently in some ceratopsian dinosaurs, may … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Science Reporting, Taphonomy, Taxonomy
Tagged Daurosaurus, Feathers, Filaments, Integument, Kulindadromeus, Kulindapteryx, Lepidocheirosaurus, Ornithischians, Russia, TLS
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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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On the Structure of Fossil Feathers
Here’s a short piece, in part inspired by discussions with Matt Martynuick at DinoGoss on the reasoning for why we attach terms like “stage 1” to fossil “feathers.”
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
My Friend Dave
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Lingham-Soliar’s Review of Chinese Fossil Preservation
…or, an article that can be summed up by the following rhetoric: “On this 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, perhaps the greatest evolutionary biologist of all time, I ask, has the care and caution that characterized Darwin’s … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Paleontology, Science Reporting
Tagged Collagen fibers, Feathers, Microscopy, Preservation, TLS
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Jaime A. Headden
The Bite Stuff 