Extinct Animal of the Week

(formerly Dinosaur of the Week)

30 November 2013

Looking at Europa

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©Paulo Marcio This image has been featured before here. It was featured back in March of 2012 in a discussion about Germanodactylus . Th...
29 November 2013

Big Nostril Lizard Foot

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Picture by Nils Knötschke Latin and Greek roots make for some rather fun to say dinosaur names and hierarchical categories. The macronar...
28 November 2013

Turkey Day Tribute

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Compsognathus is a good little dinosaur. It has been an interesting dinosaur to discuss and research. I wish to keep things short today a...
27 November 2013

Grasping Hands For Grabbing You Up

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© Shelley Kornatz ( Eykoart ) There are a lot of things that have not yet been discussed in terms of Compsognathus , though the papers ...
26 November 2013

All the Papers

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©Karola ( Caimryo ) Almost "turkey day" here in the US (strange how the colloquialism has become solely about a food that was ...
25 November 2013

Compy Puppets!

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I am going to let the videos do the talking today. There is a puppet video as well as the I'm A Dinosaur version for Compsognathus. ...
24 November 2013

Coloring and Learning

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© Emily Sheldon There are a variety of sites that offer some knowledge on Compsognathus in literature that is written for a younger aud...
23 November 2013

Staring Pretty

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© NRG (a good fellow from Argentina) Compsognathus , as a near relative of some of the earliest known feathered dinosaurs, may or may n...
22 November 2013

So Small I Missed It All This Time

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I've seen this before, but I cannot make out the illustrator's name. "The compys didn't look dangerous at first sight. ...
21 November 2013

Exciting Times!

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There is little to discuss in terms of the popular culture impact of our small basal Ornithopoda friend Atlascopcosaurus this week. As su...
20 November 2013

Once A Hypsilophodont

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©Robinson Kunz Originally diagnosed as a middle of the group Hypsilophodontid, Atlascopcosaurus , has since been reassigned to the honor...
19 November 2013

A Book Star

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Atlascopcosaurus has not made a significant impact, overall, in the peer reviewed scientific publication world. It has, however, appeared in...
18 November 2013

Australia in Motion

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Atlascopcosaurus is not a vividly in motion Australian dinosaur. There are few resources that show Atlascopcosaurus in motion adequately b...
17 November 2013

Atlascopcosaurus and Little Fact Pages

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Atlascopcosaurus shows its face rarely if at all in terms of reliable internet sites. This is not much different from the types of things t...
16 November 2013

Blank Faced Ornithopods

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©Karkemish (via Deviantart) Today I have decided that we will only have on illustration. There is a reason to such madness. The fragment...
15 November 2013

The Riches

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The world owes a fairly big chunk of its knowledge of Australian dinosaurs to Tom and Patricia Rich (more correctly known as Patricia Vicker...
14 November 2013

Star Tyrannosaur

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The story behind the long narrow snout of Alioramus remains quite unsolved and a little bit conjectural. The purpose of such a snout clearl...
13 November 2013

Alioramus is Unique Enough

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Whenever an image says only "artist's rendition" I cringe a little for the artist and hope that someone knows someone that d...
12 November 2013

Looking at Brains and Heads

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There are quite a few studies of Alioramus out there to be read. There is a little for everyone in fact. There are studies on osteology of ...
11 November 2013

Disney Has Fun

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A minute into the Dinosaur! ride at Disney's Animal Kingdom an Alioramus rears back and ingests what is supposed to be a Champsosaur...
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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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