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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...
A middle caudal vertebra of a diplodocid, presumably Tornieria africana, on display at the Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, in left lateral view. Quick backstory: this post at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History led me to this post at Nothing Human, and poking around there led me to anothe...
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(The same effect would also have caused some bending of cervical ribs, but the lower stresses in ventral musculature would have reduced the effect.) Truthfully, I have never found this section 100% persuasive. The reasons we give for not elongating the epipophyses make sense so far as they...
And because I picked that photo: you know what institution has a ton of super-interesting, well-preserved, well-prepped, not-yet-published-on sauropod vertebrae and ribs in a really nicely appointed collections room in an awesome museum run by a small team of excellent human beings? The Tate...
of the vertebra is 800 pixels, or 1.65 meters, or 5’5″. Mike’s about 1.8 meters, and the photo confirms that he’s a little taller than the vertebra, but not by much. I think that photo is a pretty accurate representation of the size of the vertebra relative toa normal human ...
skeletons of other dinosaurs fully adult but, with the posterior cervical, bearing free cervical ribs articulating by both tubercular and capitular facets as do the ribs of the dorsal region. The character in this vertebra distinguishing it as a dorsal is the broadly expanded external border of ...