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Do Drought Prone Beaver Populations Aestivate?
As some of my readers know I maintain a blog about both paleontology (antediluviansalad.blogspot) and beavers (southlandbeaver.blogspot). This post gives me a chance to actually merge the two blogs a...
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Southern Discomfort: Violent Interactions of Antarctic Toothfish and Colossal...
A few months ago I wrote a post called Black, White, and Red All Over: Orcas Penetrate the High Arctic detailing how orcas are making inroads into habitat formerly off limits to them due to global...
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Drought Tolerant Beavers of the Santa Ynez
Hey now.... some new stuff going on in Castor land. Yesterday saw the unveiling of the magnum opus on beaver restoration The Beaver Restoration Guidebook: Working With Beaver to Restore Streams,...
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Plesiosaur Machinations XI: Imitation Crab Meat Conveyor Belt and the Filter...
Fist of all Patreon, support me please!! You know this blog per month is worth at least as much as a cup of coffee from Starbucks. You want more of it? Give 'til it hurts...All right for this post -...
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Jurassic World Stole Indominus Rex From Ray Harryhausen
From Ray Harryhausen's "Evolution" 1938-40. Notice the hands of course!!Still better than Jurassic World btw.
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Death Comes Ripping - Bone Saw Theropods
When researching this post I did imagine how google queries for "bone saw" might raise the suspicion of internet watchdogs. But since this is a post on theropod teeth and not how to dispose of human...
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From Plesiosaur Machinations to - Grand-Guignol Theropoda!!
As I have done several times in the past - intentionally I might add to spite what I perceive as a decidedly anti-sports/athletics sentiment in much of paleontology/academia/intellectual community - is...
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Allosaurus - More of a Vulture Than a Falcon
 Allosaurus credit Shizoform CC genericYou could be forgiven for dismissing Allosaurus as a bit "vanilla"as far as theropods go. On average it was not very large. Teeth and skull fairly moderately...
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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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Convergence in Form and Function Across 230 Million Years of Theropod Evolution
Jack Horner can dispense with his mad scientist franken-chickenosaurus machinations. We already have plenty of fine and dandy carcass processing theropods in all corners of the world - land and sea -...
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Teratorn Blood Festival
Deep in the Peruvian Andes lives an astonishing tradition. In isolated villages throughout the area natives enact a symbolic clashing of civilizations. An Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), is captured,...
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Prehistoric Predators (Switek & Csotonyi) Is a Banal, Color-by-the-Numbers...
Sorry, not going to mince any words here.When a new paleo-art book aimed at younger audience comes down the pike I often check it out - especially when significant names are attached to it. I have in...
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Terror Birds Cometh: A New Theory Unlocking Phorusrhacid Feeding Dynamics &...
*Warning scenes and depictions of extreme animal violence will commenceIf you are new to this blog or this series of posts you will get best utility by starting with this post and working forwards to...
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Terror Bird Update
I would be remiss if I didn't mention this study on the neck anatomy and implications for vigorous movement in the sagittal plane.Tambussi CP, de Mendoza R, Degrange FJ, Picasso MB (2012) Flexibility...
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