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A New Wrinkle in the Megaraptor Mega-Mystery
credit Coria & Currie. Murusraptor CC 4.0Definitely shaping up to be the year of clan megaraptoridae with new species and information seeming to come down the pike on a weekly basis. When such a...
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Microraptor Shenanigans Part I: Hind Wings & Stealth
Boy I really stepped in it now...  Microraptor. For a long time I avoided paraves, Microraptor, the whole dino-bird subject because; there is a lot of talk about maniraptorans on the web already; I...
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Microraptor Shenanigans Part II: Like a Shadow in the Night
Duane NashPretty much ALL aspects of Microraptor have achieved special attention and thought. In this post/article - which is really a continuation of my take (and others too) on Microraptor as an...
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Night Stalker Rex Part I: Sue Is Built Like A Brickhouse
Here it is folks - the king of all kings, the prize fighter of antiquity, the grand poobah, good ol' sexy rexy himself - as you have never imagined before. Some say that we know more about...
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Night Stalker Rex Part II: Tyrant Tummy Tucks & Where the Rubber Meets the Road
As Khalil Beiting pointed out in my last post T. rex is actually not the only known barrel chested terrestrial theropod. Allosaurus, though certainly not displaying the thickness of T. rex, has a...
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The Allosaurus Magical Underwear Death Kvlt: Following the Path at #2016SVPSLC
I could have wrote just another hunky dory, look at how happy we are in paleo land, so inclusive and so progressive, color by the numbers write up of my experience at SVP2016 but then I thought to...
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Seasons Bleedings From Antediluvian Salad
Something went very wrong at the North Pole… reindeer, red, Santa getting scalped, Nanuqsaurus, northern mega-troodontids, elf gulping azhdarchids, flesh antlers - it all goes together splendidly!! And...
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Ye Shall Enter the SKINgdom of Heaven by Slaying Infidel Scale Loyalists &...
This post might piss off a few people… including some regular readers of the blog. But if you don't know it already you shouldn't  come here expecting not to be challenged in some ways!! And sometimes...
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Plesiosaur Machinations XII: Shape Shifting Plesiosaurs & Marine Apex...
Plying Abyssal Depths  by Duane NashThe bull Albertonectes is down deep. Sweeping its massive 7 meter long neck - the longest among elasmosaurs and the most neck vertebrae of any tetrapod - back and...
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Gaslighting the Dinosaur: Just How Weird Can Dinosaurs Get?
Gaslight: Manipulate (someone) into questioning their own sanity by psychological means.I've been wanting to write this post for a while but it was the revelation of two recent significant works that...
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Behind Your Bony Mask of Face
We all know what this post is about.Below I will present a few small screen grabs cut out of larger pics of skulls. Let's just say that the representative animals are quite diverse phylogenetically....
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Sinking Ornithoscelidians: Sitting Ducks, Water Chevrotains & Ceratopsid...
River Bottom Running Ankylosaurus created for this blog piece by Robin LiesensDinosaurs back in the water and it feels sooo good… There are probably fewer narratives, memes, and dialogues as storied as...
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Lips Before Beaks Part II: Croc Faced Killers & Fleshy Lipped Genetic Monsters
I just can't get away from fleshy lipped theropods...Recently I went out for a hike in the local Santa Monica mountains. Spurred on by the recent heavy winter rains in California I was expecting a...
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Making Abelisaurids Weird(er) Again: Secondarily Carnivorous Abelisaurids &...
Skiorpovenator by Duane NashI told you that this was going to be a weird one, that I will be going out on that speculative branch and perhaps sawing it off. But I believe there is a sliver of a...
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An Issue of Scale
Depending on how you deeply you read into the title of this post it can be not only a double but a triple entendre. "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"Can be rephrased as "how many T. rex...
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Pierced From Within: Utahraptor Cometh and the Return of the Killing Claw
Utahraptor by Duane NashYou know its that time again folks, more dromie madness. Antediluvian salad has a bit of a controversial history with these most pernicious of stem birds. You can be sure that...
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Lord of the Flies: Difficult Truths, Questions, and Burnout Within the Online...
It is with a bit of heavy heart that I write this. That it even has warranted this much thought on my part compels me though. I feel we have reached a sort of tipping point and, for lack of a better...
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Highly Sensitive Monster Faces: Sensitivity in Humans & Animals
Neovenator sasterii rostral facial nerves. credit Darren NaishSensitivity… not usually a word associated with flesh rendering beasts of yore. However the evidence is in and it seems unequivocal. The...
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Breaking Through the 4th Wall: OPEN SCIENCE's Promise of a New Scientific &...
In case you didn't see this coming... well its not like I haven't been dropping hints all along... that I have always had in my back pocket some rather challenging and interesting ideas on how this...
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The Missing Mesozoic Groundcover: Did Biocrusts Secretly Dominate the Mesozoic?
The following is actually a synthesis of thoughts I have been entertaining on this blog since I started in 2012. This might be news to some who only came on to antediluvian salad with such "high...
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Cartorynchus Proposed as Analogous to Epaulette Sharks: An Exposed Reef...
This post will be rather short and straightforward, as the analogous ecology of the basal ichthyosauriforme Cartorynchus lenticarpus to epaulette sharks (Hemiscyllium ocellatum) I propose is rather...
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Entering the Nth Dimension of Terra-Forming, Macro-Plant Scavenging,...
Do you have a drink handy? Down it. Or any inebriating substance, might be time to imbibe. I can assure you that I wrote this stone cold sober but I realize that a good portion of my audience,...
View ArticleI'm Killing Antediluvian Salad But Even In Death There is Rebirth...
So I am laying antediluvian salad down to rest. It's been real. The idea really came to me where almost all of my ideas come from - out of the blue and when I was driving behind the wheel. It is due to...
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 Yes family it is here!! My magnum opus Dinosaur Enlightenment: Piercing the Veil on Dinosaur Kaiju in an Age of Disruption is available as an ebook on Amazon kindle directIf you liked antediluvian...
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Entering the Hive Mind of Terra-Forming Hadrosaurs
The following, although couched in as much science as I can drape it in, is not necessarily strictly science per se. I make a lot of assumptions that prove necessary to accept in order to come up with...
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