What a month for publications it has been, it seems that all the fruits of my major paper-writing push last year, which incidentally explains the quiescence that Dracovenator experienced, have ri...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/antetonitrus-and-the-chamber-of-pneumaticity/
It is remarkable to me that two palaeontologists share this birthday (11th March). Both are connected in someway to Bristol, England and to the University of Adelaide and both have published pape...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/born-this-day/
So last time the count-down had reached number 6. Now lets finish this little series off with the top five largest. Once again the measurements are femur lengths. 5. Aardonyx celestae. Estimate...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/the-largest-prosauropods-part-3/
If you have an interest in dinosaurs you will have heard of Massospondylus. It appears in many popular dinosaur books, is regarded as one of the commonest dinosaurs in southern Africa, and has nu...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/fixing-massospondylus/
OK time to get the countdown started. The list is ordered by femoral length, or extrapoloated femoral length, mostly because good skeletal reconstructions from which volumetric estimations could ...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/the-largest-prosauropods-part-2/
Recently I’ve been looking into the size of basal sauropodomorphs. Some of these guys reached really impressive sizes, and it wasn’t just the so-called melanorosaurids. Indeed two of the top ...
In the background, between the flurry of new ceratopsian papers and the normal constant rain of theropod research, there has been a marked uptick in the number of basal sauropodomorph (‘prosaur...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/leonerasaurus/
Thanks go to last year’s BPI honour’s class for this marvel!
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/aardonyx-in-cake-form/
In Adam related news a process that was begun well over a year ago has finally culminated in me being awarded permanent residency status in South Africa. This is good news because it means I’...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/im-almost-a-saffa-now/
This tube belongs to one of the odder forms of Mollusca that this diverse phylum has thrown out. Believe it or not (and yes, that’s its real name) this tube with what vaguely resembles the flow...
https://dracovenator.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/wednesday-weirdo-watering-pot-shells/