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Following the Poop Trail: Can Dinosaurs be Blamed for Termites?
December has come around and that means here in southern California it is time to lay out some theropod crap underneath the citrus trees. What I am really talking about is chicken manure that,...
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What is Old is New Again (but still really, really old)
Well end of the year ramblings are a time honored tradition around here ( for the second year in row) so here is your little antediluvian spin on the past year.On the blogging tip it is fun and I enjoy...
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Where Kevin Love Becomes... an Ammonite?
I want to switch gears a bit, staying in the Mesozoic, but getting our feet wet a little talking about ammonite paleobiology. Ok so I have been stewing on how I should approach this post for a while...
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A Dog's World? Carnivoran Wars...
Check out this highly adorable video of some grey seals on vimeo (I don't endorse petting/approaching seals btw). On fb my friend said : "So cute! They're like the dogs of the ocean." Now I want to use...
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Mammoths in the Flower Bed
Coming down the pipeline is a new paper in Nature with a slew of authors: Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafuanal diet.AbstractAlthough it is generally agreed that the Arctic flora is...
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Cephalopod: It's What's For Dinner
Much of this post was inspired by a discussion I had in the comments over at Jaime Headen's heady blog the bite stuff about Rhamphorynchus muensteri.When I lived in the Bay Area one of my favorite past...
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Death Roll: Not Just for the Crocs...
Few predatory maneuvers are as visceral, jaw dropping, and just plain brutal as a crocodile putting it's prey through a battery of death rolls. Whether to stun, drown, incapacitate, dismember or kill...
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Yes Another Hypothesis on Long Necked Plesiosaur Feeding Ecology
Well I could not resist spilling the beans over on Tetrapod Zoology where Darren Naish has a piece up on plesiosaurs. This piece is part of a larger, almost collective unconscious thing going on in the...
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Dinoturbation, Barfing Brachiosaurs, and the "Real" Fossil Record: Anthony...
BUYOften overshadowed by skeletal remains, the nuts and bolts of dinosaur paleontology, the study of trace fossils, ichnology, offers a parallel- but no less fascinating -avenue into the lives and...
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Megaherbivore Multiplier Effect: Maybe We Should Not Get So Excited About...
Ok for this post I want to get back to the terrestrial realm, although I do have a load of posts on aquatic stuff planned, and talk about some ideas in ecology/evolution that may have gone unnoticed in...
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Remembering Gojira: Civilization Destroying Monsters
If you are like me you can't help but get caught up in the hoopla surrounding the rebooted edition of Godzilla set to premiere this month. But amidst the hysteria surrounding this film- new monsters,...
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New 'Pinocchio Rex' Tyrannosauroid is Instant Click Bait!! NFSNFW
Chuang ZhaoNow I do not often do this and focus on just a singular dinosaur species but I will make an exception with the newly described Quianzhousaurus sinensis. Because hey let's be honest posts on...
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Godzilla 2014: A Pro Top Predator Movie?
OK, OK spoiler alert. I don't want to give a full on review or even a plot summary of the new film. But I do want to talk about some of the thematic issues in the new Godzilla film so better stop...
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Google Chides Me To Get Back to Plesiosaurus
Yesterday google made a pretty sweet logo honoring Mary Anning coincident with her 215th birthday. Of course the sauropterygian depicted in the logo is none other than Plesiosaurus dolidocheirus a...
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We Eat Our Own
Rodolfo NogueraAll right this came out a little bit ago and I have been meaning to get around to it so here goes.An Additional Baurasuchid from the Cretaceous of Brazil with Evidence of Interspecific...
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Three Obvious Nods to Jurassic Park In Godzilla 2014
As a child of the 80's and growing up with a hefty collection of VHS tapes I am no stranger to repeat viewings of movies. In fact I love watching movies that resonate with me several times - sometimes...
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Was Deinocheirus the Largest Waterfowl of All Time?
Just when you though the giant armed, saddle humped, therizinosaur mimicking Deinocheirus could not get any weirder with the reveal of the skull the fossil record throws up a proverbial hail mary that...
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Lessons From the Leopard Seal
I have been wanting to write this post for a while now. I am using it as a bit of a foundational piece as it pertains to several of my own posts (and future posts) reconstructing feeding ecologies of...
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A Dog's World? Carnivoran Wars...
Check out this highly adorable video of some grey seals on vimeo (I don't endorse petting/approaching seals btw). On fb my friend said : "So cute! They're like the dogs of the ocean." Now I want to use...
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Bear-ly Sustainable: Can Polar Bears Find Refuge in the Genome of Brown Bears?
Tobias BidonOk today I want to write about a more contemporary topic - the genetic legacy of bears. And I want to direct your attention to a paper dealing with the complicated genetic history of modern...
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