many times over the years. Not only in blogging, either, but in figure preparation for formal publications. When I make a multiview like the apatosaur cervical that’sFigure 6 of Wedel and Taylor (2023) on bifurcated cervical ribs, the layers aren’t just named things likeanteriorandventral...
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...
The skinny guy in the Iron Man costume will be whining about the cost of daycare, while the lady with the pencil mustache painted on-who nobody knows what the hell she is-reminds the skinny guy that once the kids reach school age, the costs of their travel sports teams is even more o...
Human anatomy study materials Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in the 21st Century Your noun is adjective How adjective was taxon? Engaging with the media Posts on Paleoart Mike’s open projects Neural canal projects All the Museum Abbreviations Checklist for new zoological genus and species...
looking at this image in 2024, I’m immediately interested in the ribs, which of courseMatt and I published on at the very end of 2023(Taylor and Wedel 2023, natch). It shows both ribs A and B in their original state, and it’s instructive to compare them with those ribs as we il...
Human anatomy study materials Supersaurus, Ultrasaurus and Dystylosaurus in the 21st Century Your noun is adjective How adjective was taxon? Engaging with the media Posts on Paleoart Mike’s open projects Neural canal projects All the Museum Abbreviations Checklist for new zoological genus and species...
Borrowed from http://humanorgans.org/spinal-cord/ * Some relevant hard-core anatomy for the curious: sauropods have neural canals in their tail vertebrae, and usually far down their tails, too. But that doesn’t mean much–you have neural canals to the bottom half of your sacrum, but yo...
I think we missed the most obvious explanation here: that while thepotentialto develop bifurcated cervical ribs is phylogenetically determined, theactualdevelopment of bifurcation in any given rib is highly variable between individuals and indeed between vertebrae of a single individual. Given that we ...
— Right from the start, seeing Jensen himself: someone I’ve been sort of familiar with from the literature, but never really imagined as being an actual human being.— From about two minutes in, Jensen seems be uncovering bones in dry sand, rather like kids in a palaeo pits at some ...
Well done, because these few pieces (sauropod leg, Komodo dragon skeleton, human skeleton, etc.) focus on getting the main message across (sauropods = way larger than everything else), aided by the largest animals (or their silhouettes) or various groups painted on the wall. Only once the...