Bennettite Paleoenvironments
Bennettites show up in the fossil record first in the Middle Triassic. Late Triassic beds around the world show many fronds of Anomozamites, Pterophyllum, and Zamites. Throughout the Jurassic bennettites […]
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Bennettites (Cycadeoids)
Bennettitales (Cycadeoidales) I write to the paleo community today not because we have failed, but because we are succeeding like never before. We are ready to take on a […]
Deinonychus antirrhopus skeletal reconstruction
The new header on my blog’s first page is a skeletal reconstruction of Deinonychus that I did on a commission a few years back. I studied the osteology […]
Memoriam: Dr. Larry Martin
Dr. Larry Martin I would like to offer this brief essay about Larry Martin. He passed away on March 9th after a long and productive career as a Paleontologist, Professor, […]
Take These Broken Wings And Learn To Fly
August 31, 2012 Could early birds fly well, could they fly at all? The balance of evidence tips back and forth as new anatomical studies probe the issue from different […]
A Shoulder to Cry On
Microraptor Wings 4 – Scapular Orientation and Glenoid Mobility 7/28/2011 In 2006 Dr. Phil Senter published two scientific papers in which he stated that non – avian theropods have ventral […]
What does “Soft Dinosaurs” mean?
The title is a triple entendre. 1) Dinosaurs turn out to be soft, rather than rough, because they were covered with fluffy filaments or feathers 2) I am particularly interested […]
Reconstruction of Microraptor with Iridescent Plumage 2012
A second draft of the project, before the yellow snouts and eyes, and with incorrect wings on the individual in the background. A second draft of the project, before the […]
Microraptor Fingers and Feathers
Feathered Dinosaurs
In the last few years scientists have described scores of dinosaur fossils covered in feathers. Some are tiny animals, and their skeletons are mixtures of bird and non – bird […]
