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• To me – to you: directions and descriptions

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  Having covered the ongoing saga (though to be honest it’s less of a saga than a small novella) of the ‘ cranial-caudal’ descriptions issue, it seemed an appropriate time to bring up the ideas of directions in anatomical descriptions. As I noted in the earlier post, the point about directions in anatomy are to ...
  6 days ago

• Cranial-Caudal vs Anterior-Posterior

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  This is something I have been avoiding for a while as I know for a fact that this is divisive in the dinosaur / archosaur community and incidentally I’m probably on the minority side. However, regardless of the divide, it is important to know that the division in there and why. Although I have not really covered ...
  1 week ago

• Some specimens are more equal than others

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  I got into a discussion with my colleagues the other day about the merits of collecting multiple specimens of taxa versus collecting something new. The reality of course is that there is rarely a choice to be made – you bring back everything you find in the field that you can. However, as a hypothetical discussion ...
  1 week ago

• 40 Foot Crocodile Was Real; Moby Dick Was Real; Tom Horn Was Real

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 130
  Sereno Compares Dogcroc with Supercroc Alligators and Crocodiles strike fear in people.  Can you imagine a 40 foot “SuperCroc?”     The Supercroc still holds the title as the largest known crocodile to roam the earth but who knows if there was a bigger one?   After all, University of ...
  1 week ago

• Tiny fungi replay the fall of the giant beasts

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 627
  Around 15,000 years ago, North American was home to a wide menagerie of giant mammals - mammoths and mastodons , giant ground sloths , camels , short-faced bears , American lions , dire wolves , and more. But by 10,000 years ago, these "megafauna" had been wiped out. Thirty-four ...
  1 week ago

• A bit more on convergence

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  Before my brief hiatus with a trip to Shandong (very worthwhile, despite the illness that stuck me down) I was talking about convergent characters and the importance of examining all the available evidence and not just a select feature or two. However, that post was written rather quickly and I didn’t have time to ...
  1 week ago

• Spiny-ness in mammals and rampant convergence

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proof by illustration

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Sauropodomorph Described

  
  Evolving Complexity — Authority: 424
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinese challenge to out of Africa theory

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Not Exactly Rocket Science — Authority: 627
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tremble ye mighty referees and authors

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Collectors — Authority: 816
  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
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Collectors — Authority: 816
  Anna Hipsley gets the lowdown from palaeontologist Scott Hucknall
  3 weeks ago

• Memory and the fossil record – laboured analogy time

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  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, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Keeping up with the literature

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Rough Idea

  
  Weapon of Mass Imagination — Authority: 121
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Palaentologists - a video introduction

  
  Johannes Lochmann — Authority: 110
  Hat Tip: Gunnar Ries
  4 weeks ago

• Casts vs sculptures

  
  Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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