For the sake of completeness, I have to mention that there is a humerus on display at the LA County Museum of Natural History that is labeled Brachiosaurus, but it’s not been written up yet, and after showing
thinking it could plausibly belong to a sauropod, after Andy countered every point I raised in my “Saurophaganax is a theropod after all” push with photos of the same characters in the vertebrae of juvenile sauropods, which led to me agreeing with Andy and the other authors that designatin...
Stable expression of FLAG-labeled SLC38A9 isomer 1 (SLC38A9.1) immunoprecipitates with LAMTOR1/2 (both Ragulator components), and Rags, suggesting that SLC38A9 interacts with them. Additionally, SLC38A9.1 binds to V-ATPase, a transmembrane complex that mediates AA signaling (Wang et al., ...
and stupidly described it as “not unlikeVelociraptor“. I was so mortified when I heard the first draft of the video that I got in touch with the videographer and begged him to snip out the “not un-“. He did a great job, and I bet you can’t hear the join.) ...
A simplified diagram of the sauropod respiratory system. What I’ve labeled “air tubes” here are the pneumatic diverticula. Air holes in the vertebrae are also known as pneumatic foramina. The shapes of the lungs and air sacs are speculative, but the minimum extent of the pneumatic diverticul...
fig. 3) figured and labeled the epipophysis in one of the cervical vertebrae. The vertebra image in that figure is tiny (nice work, glam-magz!), so here are some sketches ofJobariamid-cervicals (from two different individuals) that I made back in the day when I was doing the resear...
unlabeled version. The only ones that aren’t shown or labeled are the diverticula around the esophagus and trachea (which had already been stripped off the neck segments, so those diverticula were simply gone), those around carotid arteries, which are probably buried in the gloop toward the bo...
(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+ meters, if the neck in the ground was articulated...
the “all the Haplos” project became one of Colin’s talks at NAPC last year. Then last June, Colin, Brian, Ray, and I had a few days in the Salt Lake/Provo area, and Gunnar Bivens joined us. In addition to being a talented artist — he did all the skeletal recons in the ...
And the same thing labeled: And now flipped around so we can see it in medial view: And now that image labeled: And, hey, there are three of our alternative hypotheses on display: the long (many vertebral segments) lumbosacral expansion of the spinal cord, which is reflected in a gradual...