which I extracted from the 1917 public-domain Gray’s Anatomy and posted for students so they can draw on top of them. The drawings are useful but a real(ish) 3D skull is even better, especially if you can get one cheaply enough that you wouldn’t ...
Stephen Wan, and the late David Shofler. David Shofler was a friend as well as a colleague, and we’d been coauthors on my first human anatomy paper (Penera et al. 2014). He passed unexpectedly, and far too young, on May 10, 2021, of a heart attack...
Ultimately, this has been a fun exercise and it’s made me more aware of how I title my papers. This is useful because I have some manuscripts in the works that deal with really detailed anatomy, and I need to figure out how to give them titles that are precise and informative but st...
hand experiences; Neural spine bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation: ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications; The Anatomy and Phylogenetic Relationships of “Pelorosaurus” becklesii (Neosauropoda, Macronaria) from the Early Cretaceous of England; The Moral Dimensions of Open). ...
Jessie and I hatched the idea of it way back in 2017, when we were teaching in the summer anatomy course together. I learned that Jessie had a big war chest of CTs of dead birds, and I’d been obsessed with supramedullary diverticula in birds and sauropods for some time already (e....
In all of my time teaching anatomy at four different universities, it has always been true that the students who did the best were part of effective study groups. It’s not just autocorrelation, because struggling students improve when they join effective study groups. I think that this is be...
We need more pneumaticity studies. There is just so much we don’t know. I’ve been working on sauropod pneumaticity more often than not since 1998, and I’m stoked about how much basic descriptive work remains to be done, because I’m an anatomy geek at heart, and describing weird ...
I know I poke a lot of fun at non-sauropods around here, but the truth is that I’m a pan-dino-geek at heart. When I’m looking at theropods and ceratopsians I am mostly uncontaminated by specialist knowledge or a desire to work on them, so I can relax, and squee the good sq...