Second, I am intrigued/haunted by the possibility that extant birds might not represent the apex of saurischian lung/air sac evolution. Birds survived the K-Pg disaster because they were small; respiratory efficiency had little or nothing to do with it (evidence: all the other small-bodied te...
Tree of Life The recent problem with the preoccupied dinosaur name Jingia (replaced with Jingiella) highlights some of the content issues with each of these databases. Jingia Chen, 1983 (a moth) shows up in the GBIF and the Tree of Life, but not in the ION or the IRMNG. It’s a ...
and I’ve seen panel mounts where the bones are laid out on the ground as they may have been when they were found. And I’ve seen photos ofthe bizarre everted-elbowedDiplodocusin St. Petersburg. But never an exhibit like this, with the rib-cage complete and articulated, but sitting on...