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Saurian: November 2014
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Monday, 24 November 2014. There have been several discussions regarding certain issues raised at the meeting this year, many of which are still going on even now. Essentially they focus on the fact that this meeting gets bigger and bigger every year and it is hard to manage so many people efficiently – especially when it comes to the poster sessions and the provision of both food and liquid refreshments. The biggest debate proliferating the boards on Twitter and the DML concerns the ethics of live tweeti...
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Dinosaur Postcards: Open Access, tired reviewers, and the free market: time for reviewer credit?
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Saturday, November 29, 2014. Open Access, tired reviewers, and the free market: time for reviewer credit? There is an editorial in Nature this week which has attracted a lot of criticism on the internet. " Open access is tiring out peer reviewers. By Dr Martijn Arns suggests that a rise in scientific publications is due to increased numbers of manuscript submissions to open-access journals, and that this is placing increased pressure on peer-reviewers. Some researchers have said that they will simply ref...
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Dinosaur Postcards: Screenwashing, for victory!
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. Screenwashing, for victory! So if you followed the link from my previous post. Over to the Great Plains Dinosaur Museum Facebook page, you would have seen a photo of a cute little pachycephalosaur squamosal spike that we found in the first week. Pachycephalosaurs are the famous dome-headed dinosaurs that are often shown headbutting each other (although the evidence supporting this behavior is controversial). A braincase fragment from a theropod? Peter, Danny and Holley spent all ...
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Paleoexhibit: Extraordinary Tanystropheus
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Monday, November 3, 2014. Reconstructed as a shoreline fish hunter. With a length approaching 5 meters for the largest specimens, half of which taken up by an extremely elongated neck,. Was a truly remarkable creature. The neck was quite rigid being made of only a dozen of elongated cervical vertebrae. The behavioral habit of. From the Late Permian of Germany, the “monkey lizard”. Of the Late Triassic of Italy, and. Have been described, probably not all valid. The type species,. Forms with all its closes...
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Paleoexhibit: September 2014
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Monday, September 1, 2014. Measured about 30 cm in length. Among the Chroniosuchids,. Tverdochlebova, 1972 from the Late Permian of the Orenburg province of Russia is probably the best known species, with fossils from many individuals including one near complete articulated specimen. Vjuschkov, 1957 also from the Orenburg province but a bit younger, differs in the taller shape of its skull. Vjuschkov, 1957) from the Novgorod province and. Golubev, 1908,. Riabinin, 1962) and. Young, 1979,. Novikov and Shi...
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Paleoexhibit: November 2014
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Monday, November 3, 2014. Reconstructed as a shoreline fish hunter. With a length approaching 5 meters for the largest specimens, half of which taken up by an extremely elongated neck,. Was a truly remarkable creature. The neck was quite rigid being made of only a dozen of elongated cervical vertebrae. The behavioral habit of. From the Late Permian of Germany, the “monkey lizard”. Of the Late Triassic of Italy, and. Have been described, probably not all valid. The type species,. Forms with all its closes...
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Synapsida: November 2014
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A random wander through the world of mammals. Saturday, 29 November 2014. The Dog Family: Canidae. Does not have the same variety of different forms and species as does the weasel family. I also suspect that, with the exception of grey wolves, it doesnt get the sort of attention that the big cats do. Yet, of course, even apart from the wolves and their domestic descendants, it includes a number of familiar species, as well as some that are rather more exotic. So, with goats. Links to this post. To unders...
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Synapsida: October 2014
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A random wander through the world of mammals. Sunday, 26 October 2014. Children of the Coal-beasts. The animals of the Pleistocene epoch, of which Ive given an overview. Secondly, older fossils are both rarer and more fragmentary, so that were literally missing pieces of the puzzle. As a result, there are a number of early groups of mammal that we know existed, but which its hard to fit into a family tree, or, indeed, to know much about at all. Links to this post. Sunday, 19 October 2014. The Mysterious ...
