Check out the new paper by Jerry Harris, “What exactly is a nuchal ligament and who exactly has one?” This is one of those papers that fires on lots of cylinders for me: it’s interesting, it’s useful, and holy crap, the work that went into it is humbling. Note that of the 7...
aEach compressed air circuit is to be identified as to its purpose (such as ‘poppet blow off’) and the required pressure to assure proper action. Each circuit is to be fitted with a quick disconnected fitting and labeled “Air In” 每条压缩空气电路将被辨认至于它的目的(例如`宝宝吹散’)...
When I started my palaeo Masters (as it then was) at Portsmouth, I had a very bad habit of writing unnecessary double negatives of the kind the Sir Humphrey Appleby might use. Instead of saying “Taxon X resembles taxon Y”, I would say “is not dissimilar to”. I did this all the ...
They spent long hours on the road and had many conversations during that time. Her memories of his final days were tied to that car. The second example is from a conflict between my mother and sister. My mother claimed my sister didn’t have a sentimental bone in her body and my ...
So that means 26 of the 50 submissions are published. What about the rest? Five more submissions are still open: the Barosaurus neck paper based on that preprint, still in review limbo after eight years; an accepted chapter in a long-delayed edited volume; a paper on Joni Mitchell that ...
Some time later, I got to see the bone for myself: it’s long been on public display as a touch specimen at the NMNH in Washington DC. Here’s a photo — not one of mine, which didn’t come out too well, but one sent by Mike Brett-Surman: ...
of the Halloween stuff at my local Michaels is already on 40% discount, getting sold off cheap to make room for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The realistic skulls-on-stands originally sold for $25, at which price I might balk, but for $15 they seem like a steal. The little labeled ...
chapter in a long-delayed edited volume; a paper on Joni Mitchell that was given Major Revisions from a humanities journal for (I thought) spurious reasons; an anatomy paper at PeerJ whose revisions should soon be finished; and the newly submitted paper that I mentioned at the top of the ...
Assuming the scale bar is supposed to be 1 meter (and not 20 meters or 2.0 meters as it is labeled) yields a summed cervical length of 13.4 meters, a summed dorsal length of 3.39 meters, and a cervical/dorsal ratio of 3.96–all admirably close, off by no more than 4cm across 16+...
First of all, the perennial question of what sauropods’ long necks were for. There are a few candidate explanations out there. The obvious one is that they enabled high browsing, and on the whole we feel that’s the strongest single explanation. Another candidate factor is sexual selection ...