Sunday, July 31, 2011

Ornithopods of the British Isles, Part II

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Fig 1.- Hypsilophodon foxii . An Early Cretaceous lithostratigraphic unit called the “Wealden Group” in Southern England is famous for the ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Ornithopods of the British Isles, Part I

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Fig 1.- Callovosaurus leedsi might have look like Dryosaurus although it is hard to tell from a single bone. If you were asked to cite o...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

How many Stegosaurs in the Morrison Formation?

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Fig 1.- Stegosaurus ungulatus. Stegosaurus is one of the most iconic dinosaurs from the famed Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North Am...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

A thermometer to measure dinosaur body temperature: scientists show direct evidence of warm-bloodedness in giant sauropods

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It was speculated for a few decades now that dinosaurs were endotherm (warm-blooded) creatures with high metabolism rates, comparable to b...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Arcusaurus pereirabdalorum, a new sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa

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Sauropodomorphs form a group of bipedal and quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaurs that reached gigantic proportions in the Jurassic and Creta...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Haya griva, a new dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia

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Haya griva was named after the Hindu deity Hayagriva, an avatar of Vishnu characterized by a horse head. This is in reference to the hors...
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Thalassiodracon hawkinsi

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Apart from the name (which means “sea dragon”), there is a priori nothing particularly impressive about the plesiosaur Thalassiodracon . Wi...