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Plesiosaur Machinations II: The Social Sauropterygian
I find persistent natural history myths, anecdotes, and adages a topic of special interest. These  narratives, stories, adages and anecdotes - usually unsupported by detailed field work and not part of...
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Don't Draw Celibate Cycads!!
One does not have to look far to get into the well documented, especially on the paleoblogosphere, interplay between paleontology/paeoartistry/plagiarism/tropes etc. etc. Chances are if you read this...
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Plesiosaur Machinations III: The Family That Slays Together, Stays Together
Image Belongs to BLUETONGUESKINKS.NETFirst of all if you have not read Plesiosaur Machination Part I and Part II, GTFO, go read 'em, Â and come back. If you have please enjoy Plesiosaur Machinations...
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Join the Antediluvian Salad Facebook Page!!
Join HERE.In addition to getting notified for new posts I will attempt to link to interesting articles, posts, videos, artwork, pictures that further delineate and spotlight the antediluvian salad...
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Dog-Eat-Dog World: Theropod Wars Revisited... Morrison Style
Jim Kirkland. Juvenile Ceratosaurus Leaping on Tanycolagreus. NAMALThe above image of provided by James Kirkland as part of a temporary exhibit at the North American Museum of Ancient Life (NAMAL)...
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Black, White, and Red All Over: Orcas Penetrate the High Arctic
You could say I have shifted a lot of my attention and interest onto aquatic stuff lately - hey I included the word salad in the name of this blog for a reason, a salad can have all manner of toppings...
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Using Phytoliths to Determine Tree Cover in Ancient Ecosystems
Ok all you dinomaniacs its time to stop fapping over massive theropods, titanic sauropods, and feathered (or non-feathered) velociraptors and talk about some boring ol' plants. And not even whole...
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Plesiosaur Machinations IV: He Is the Last You'll Know....
When Harrison Okene, the chef on the oil company ship Jascon 4, rose early at around 4:30 a.m. on the morning of May 26, 2013 he would have had no inkling of the ordeal he was about to go through. A...
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Plesiosaur Machinations V: Despot Ammonite Slayer
A little synchronicity occurred for me in the weeks leading up to this post. Some providential events - developments that let me know the world is ready for a re-imagining of the plesiosaur as the...
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Plesiosaur Machinations VI: WE BITE!!
Plesiosaurs and the Misfits together at last!! I've done this occasionally in the past for this blog where a certain song fits and inspires the subject matter at hand. The song We Bite was one of the...
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Plesiosaur Machinations Part VII: You Can't Handle the Thickness
credit Temuracredit Todd Marshallcredit Edward Drinker Copecredit Doug HendersonThis post is on the tendency towards "shrink-wrapping" in plesiosaurs. As a quick explanation to those that are not...
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Plesiosaur Machinations VIII: The Strange Case of Cope's Mosasaur Inside an...
Pilot Whale which presumably choked to death on large fish (Mahi mahi?). credit My Mataking - Eyes of the KingAnimals sometimes do weird and inexplicable stuff. Even highly intelligent mammals like...
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Carcharodontosaurs Deadlifts Less Than World's Strongest Man!?!
Maybe my view is a little skewed but there does appear to be a general disdain for sports, team games, athletics, or just "jock" culture in general in many intellectual circles. Now I don't know if...
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What You See When You Google Image Search "Fighting Raptors"
Well let me be honest, I was trying to kill some time at work and decided to do a google image search for "fighting raptors" (I do work at a bird museum so it was a little defensible). Long story short...
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Plesiosaur Machinations VIIII: In the Belly of the Beast
Well all righty then, back to the machinations. I did get a little bit of a spike in traffic regarding my last post on Cope's purported mosasaur within an elasmosaur. As it should be because such a...
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Plesiosaur Machinations X: Senior Water Rights
Brontosaurus credit Charles R. Knight wikiWhen I ponder long necked plesiosaurs, especially the stupendous elasmosaurids, my mind can't help but wander towards the other notable clan of Mesozoic long...
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Triassic Systems Collapse
Time for nice, happy upbeat post that is going to reassure you that everything is going to be all right for us here on little ol' planet earth - NOT!!! Heed the dire proclamations sallying forth from...
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