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• Spiny-ness in mammals and rampant convergence

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 127
  As the title has already given away, I’m going to talk about mammals a bit on here for once (well, OK, they have cropped up occasionally before ) but as a set-up to a point about convergence and evaluating evidence so it will hopefully be instructive and not overly extant mammal-y for those who like their extinct ...
  13 hours ago

• Proof by illustration

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 127
  One might think that after developing as a science for the last two hundred years, palaeontology would demand some pretty rigorous proof of a concept before it enters the area of ideas that one could consider ‘general consensus’ or perhaps nowadays more accurately (though less inclusively) ‘passed peer ...
  1 day ago

• A New Sauropodomorph Described

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 419
  A species of a group of dinosaurs related to the Sauropods has been discovered in South Africa. The Sauropods, which include the popularly known Brontosaurus (now correctly known as Apatosaurus), are known to have had bi-pedal ancestry due to the structure of the bones in the forearm. Aardonyx (Earth Claw) is a ...
  3 days ago

• Chinese challenge to out of Africa theory

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Chinese challenge to out of Africa theory 00:01 03 November 2009 by Phil McKenna The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa. Jin Changzhu and colleagues of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in ...
  4 days ago

• Measuring dino fitness - more evidence that two-legged dinosaurs were warm-blooded

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 625
  The question of whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded is one of the most enduring in palaeontology. Did they generate their own body heat like todays mammals; was their temperature more influenced by their environment like todays reptiles; or did they use a mixture of both strategies? Scientists ...
  4 days ago

• Tremble ye mighty referees and authors

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 127
  Possibly. Anyway, I’ve now been formally taken on as one of the associate editors of the palaeontological journal ‘ Historical Biology ’ (my thanks to Gareth Dyke for his invitation to join the board). Having preached much about peer review , reviewing and writing papers and even the editorial process I ...
  5 days ago

• Australian Age Of Dinosaurs website, as mentioned on air ... (link)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 815
  Australian Age of Dinosaurs Ltd is a western Queensland based, non-profit organisation to encourage, promote and facilitate the discovery, preservation and display of fossil material
  6 days ago

• 10:55 - Dinosaur-led tourism brings the Central Queensland outback to life ... (audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 815
  Anna Hipsley gets the lowdown from palaeontologist Scott Hucknall
  6 days ago

• Memory and the fossil record – laboured analogy time

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 127
  It occurred to me the other evening that the human memory can serve as quite a good analogy for the fossil record. While I have before covered some of the issues of bias in the fossil record , this might serve as something a little easier to think about since it’s based on something we all experience. Anyway, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Keeping up with the literature

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 127
  My colleagues Mike Taylor and Andy Farke among others have done an admirable job of promoting the concept of open access in palaeontology, both for data and for the actual research papers that academics produce. However, while this is on the whole a very good thing, it has I believe (in conjunction with other ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Rough Idea

  
  Weapon of Mass Imagination — Authority: 126
  Sadly things arent slowing down on my end. At least it is mostly good stuff coming down the pipes, but it is all timing sensitive. So I have to get it all done. In the midst of the half a dozen things Im currently juggling, is of course my ART Evolved piece. I have not been overly inspired by the Sauropod them I have ...
  2 weeks ago

• Palaentologists - a video introduction

  
  Johannes Lochmann — Authority: 403
  Hat Tip: Gunnar Ries
  2 weeks ago

• Casts vs sculptures

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 127
  A long time ago in the dim and distant past on here I wrote about fossil chimeras and mounting skeletons and have since written about fake fossils of various kinds. In these I rather breezed over some of the different ways that fossils can be produced for display and it seems worth going over in a little greater ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Ida” not missing link in human evolution, claims scientist

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, October 22 (ANI): A new analysis has determined that the exceptionally well-preserved fossil primate known as “Ida” is not a missing link as some have claimed, and it may have belonged to a group more closely linked to lemurs than to monkeys, apes or human beings. According to a report by BBC News, Dr [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Breaking the Link - Darwinius revealed as ancestor of nothing

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 625
  Cast your mind back to June, when a stunning fossil animal called Darwinius (alternatively Ida or "The Link") was unveiled to the world to tremendous pomp and circumstance . Hyperbolic ads declared the day of Idas discovery as the most important for 47 million years . A press release promised that she would ...
  3 weeks ago

• The casqued cassowary

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 127
  While we are talking birds with odd beaks, skulls, ornaments and all that , it seemed most pertinent that I dig up this image of a cassowary from my collection. The crest at the top of the head is more properly called a casque and while studies show that it certain does have an ornamental / signaling  function, it ...
  3 weeks ago

• How prehistoric sea monsters sorted males from females

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 625
  For humans and most other mammals, sex is a question is chromosomes. Two X chromsomes makes us female while an X and a Y makes us male. Birds use a similar but reversed system, where males are ZZ and females are ZW. But for reptiles, including crocodiles, turtles and many lizards, sex is determined not by genes, but ...
  8 weeks ago

• Assessment Rain Check

  
  Weapon of Mass Imagination — Authority: 126
  Sadly my meeting today with Dr. Fordyce did not happen. It turns out were both extremely busy people. Being the head of the Otago Universitys Geology department means Dr. Fordyce carries an awful lot of responsibilities and commitments, and myself being a teacher work the same hours as his. So when I got an ...
  8 weeks ago

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