Extinct Animal of the Week

(formerly Dinosaur of the Week)

30 June 2013

Gentle Paralititan

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Sauropods are typically depicted as gentle giants. They were probably as aggressive as any modern animal toward a threat, but like many mo...
29 June 2013

Planets of Dinosuars

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Screen capture from Planet Dinosaur Models of Paralititan and illustrations have been made by many different artists. In all of these im...
28 June 2013

Tidal Giants

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©Dmitry Bogdanov In the Bahariya Formation of Egypt in the early 1900's Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach was a prolific discoverer of d...
27 June 2013

Fossil for Sale

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The arguments for and against the sale of fossils are all over the map; much like any other debate ranging from guns to religious freedom an...
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26 June 2013

How Do We Hunt?

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©Dmitry Bogdanov At an estimated 26.2 ft (8 m) long Deltadromeus was a fairly long ceratosaur. Majungasaurus, one of the largest ceratos...
25 June 2013

Deltadromeus Learns to Type

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Deltadromeus is mentioned in quite a few books on African dinosaurs and is, as seen on Sunday, the titular dinosaur in at least one of those...
24 June 2013

The Running Deltadromeus

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Deltadromeus was a runner. How many videos show a running Deltadromeus? The answer is very few. Dinosaur King has a few battle scenes from t...
23 June 2013

Running for Children

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I suppose it is more likely that Deltadromeus would run after children rather than for children. If dinosaurs were around like in Dinotopi...
22 June 2013

Speculative Crania

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The cranial elements of Deltadromeus are missing entirely. It is certainly not rare for skeletal elements of dinosaurs to be missing and s...
21 June 2013

Running Through the Delta

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© Nobu Tamura Basal ceratosaurs, and advanced ceratosaurs, happen to be some of my favorite theropods. Unfortunately, some of them tend ...
20 June 2013

Vaguely Popular

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Kind of a big Iguana until you get to the head Heterodontosaurus is only popular in a few circles. Good days bring us links from all ove...
19 June 2013

Everything is Bland

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Heterodontosaurus, aside from the tusks and other two types of teeth, is a very typical little dinosaur. Heterodontosaurus was small enoug...
18 June 2013

Heterodontosaurus on the Newsstand

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Artist uncredited Heterodontosaurus has been dormant for a while in research circles it appears. While the 1970's have given us lite...
17 June 2013

Scary Flesh

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The fleshed model of Heterodontosaurus that you my see in timelapse images of the construction of the model is a little frightening. The hor...
16 June 2013

Little Dinosaur for Little Kids

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Heterodontosaurus was a little dinosaur. Little kids like little dinosaurs, but that is not all of the appeal. The appeal is also that it is...
15 June 2013

Heterodontosaurus Tusks!

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Does sexual dimorphism exist in Heterodontosaurus specimens? The tusks may be a good indication of sexual dimorphism if many more specimen...
14 June 2013

You and Your Strange Teeth

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© Nobu Tamura The "Different Toothed Lizard", or Heterodontosaurus tucki , was a small, about the size of a golden retriever, ...
13 June 2013

Statues and Electronics

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From the Jurassic Park Wiki, artist uncredited There are a lot of Suchomimus out there in the world. There are statues and video games ...
12 June 2013

Jaws and Families

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©Scott Anselmo, right maxilla Suchomimus was a well equipped dinosaur. As a smaller spinosaur it was still equipped with a dorsal ridge ...
11 June 2013

Prowling for Beachgoers

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©Walter Myers (www.arcadiastreet.com) A number of papers have been written about research focusing on Suchomimus. Whether it is comparin...
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I am an educator and a researcher. I am interested in how the feeding apparatus of reptiles, especially birds and dinosaurs, has changed over time. Therefore, I conduct research focused on the anatomy and biomechanics of the head. My research specifically seeks to answer questions concerning the functional morphology and biomechanical environment of the palate, including kinetic movements of the skull. Understanding the impact that palatal movements and the joints that are in the head have on the ecological role of all reptiles, including birds, allows us to better comprehend the evolution of the feeding apparatus in extant and fossil animals and is of great interest to me.
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