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Off Topic: New Allosaur species discovered, even though we had it all along
It’s been a while since I did a dinosaur post around here, and if we’re going to get back into the groove, let’s get serious. They’ve…
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Why should Blizzard add Gorgonopsids to World of Warcraft?
Because giant lizard-cats four meters long with saber teeth are awesome, that’s why. Inostrancevia was the largest of the gorgonopsids, a suborder of the theriodonts — the…
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Off Topic: More dinosaurs had feathers than you may think
Look, y’all remember that I love PBS Eons, right? We did a whole post about it. So I wanted to make sure to point you to this…
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Off Topic: What is a stem mammal?
Amazingly, my inner paleontology nerd gets excited about things that aren’t dinosaurs. If I were to be honest, I’m more interested in therapsids. What are therapsids? You…
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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. Aren’t pterosaurs just flying dinosaurs?…
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Off Topic: When cowboys killed each other over dinosaurs
America has seen a lot of wars. In the 19th century alone, it saw the First Barbary War, the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War,…
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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:…
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