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Tag Archives: Oviraptorids
The Persistent Melancholy of Oviraptor
Or, what is Oviraptor? Originally described in 1924 by H. F. Osborn on the partial remains of a skeleton including the skull, neck, should, and forelimb, associated with some eggs inferred to belong to a ceratopsian the animal was predating, … Continue reading
The Best Little Oviraptorid in Mongolia – Preview
As I wrote waaaay back in February of 2012 (damn!), my previous versions of the skeleton of the oviraptorid known as Citipati sp., or GIN 100/42 (or, simply “100/42”) were improperly scaled, improperly drawn, etc. Lots of errors, little means … Continue reading
Muscles and Style
Look at the surface of an animal, you will see what the animal looks like. Look beneath the surface, you will see why it looks that way. I’ve done a few musculature studies of fossil animals over the years, and … Continue reading
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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Skin Deep
What happens when you shrink-wrap a dinosaur? Well, first, you get something like the famous Ely Kish hadrosaurs: But of late, some degree of scientific accuracy has forced paleontological reconstruction to get a little more … realistic. We now tend … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Paleontology, Philosophy, Reconstruction
Tagged Oviraptorids, Restoration and Reconstruction
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Oviraptorids of Southern China
(This is a brief post. I am still working on other projects, and new stuff that interests me keeps coming out!) Eventually, a review topic will have to be done to work on these guys. There are now quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Paleontology, Science Reporting
Tagged Heterochrony, Nankangia, Nankangia jiangxiensis, ontogeny, Oviraptorids, Oviraptorosaurs, Theropoda
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Not Another One…
Seriously, you get into a blogging funk and get all busy at home life and someone comes along to publish a new oviraptorid from Southern China … as if there weren’t enough of those already to deal with. And as … Continue reading
Posted in Paleontology, Philosophy, Science Reporting, Taxonomy
Tagged Jiangxisaurus ganzhouensis, Oviraptoridae, Oviraptorids
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Pneumatic Air Sacs in Dinosaurs
Following all that work I’ve been doing on anatomy in oviraptorids, it should not come as a surprise that I am looking for ways to effectively represent this amassed data in digestible chunks. I don’t always want to write novellas … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Reconstruction, Terminology
Tagged Birds, Dinosaurs, Oviraptoridae, Oviraptorids, Pneumaticity, Pterosaurs
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Jaime A. Headden
The Bite Stuff 