Dinosaurs
Off Topic: What is a stem mammal?
Amazingly, my inner paleontology nerd gets excited about things that aren't dinosaurs.
Off Topic: New fossil discovery Ambopteryx establishes the lineage of bat-winged, feathered dinosaurs
For us laymen, the difference between pterosaurs -- members of the clade Pterosauria -- and dinosaurs is often extremely hard to understand.
Off Topic: When cowboys killed each other over dinosaurs
America has seen a lot of wars.
Off Topic: The shrink wrapped dinosaur problem
One of my favorite dinosaur/paleontology books is All Yesterdays. It's been out for six years edging towards seven, and it's a book with a simple but interesting premise: it renders dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals with a more speculative eye, and then uses modern animal skeletons to show the limitations of most paleo reconstruction art.
The Queue: My end of the year Queue
This is the last Queue I’ll be writing in 2018.
It’s been a heck of a year, some good, some really bad. It’s finally over. Next year will, I hope and pray, be slightly better for all of us. I hope you all had a good holiday if you celebrated it, and if not, I hope your week has been peaceful.
A very important gallery of things you can and cannot pet in Battle for Azeroth
Please don't try to pet the seagulls, it is a very bad idea.
Battle for Azeroth is packed with cool dinosaur mounts
If you've been paying any attention at all to the hype surrounding Battle for Azeroth, you may have noticed the Zandalari and dinosaurs kind of go hand-in-hand.
Tavern Queue: Dinosaurs
So this is the Tavern Queue, which is like The Queue, only not even tangentially about Blizzard games.
The Queue: A little help from our friends
My friend Matt Fossen made that picture for me. Thanks, Matt.
Yes, it’s a little weird for me to be talking to someone else named Matt. Believe it or not, all my IRL friends call me Matt. Nobody calls me Rossi.
This is The Queue. Let us answer questions together.
You should get A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and other Winged Dinosaurs
Because don't we all need more Satanic Nightjar references in our lives?
