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Electronic publishing is inevitable and even the ICZN is beginning to accept it
After a completely barren 2008, this year is turning out to be a good one for me in terms of publications. Today sees the publication of Taylor (2009b), entitled Electronic publication of...
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How big were the biggest sauropod trackmakers?
UPDATE December 3, 2009 I screwed up, seriously. Tony Thulborn writes in a comment below to correct several gross errors I made in the original post. He’s right on every count. I have no defense, and I...
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Tornieria caudals
For various arcane reasons, the SV-POW!sketeers are all neck-deep in work, so the blog may actually become somewhat more of the APOD-style picture-n-paragraph thing we originally envisioned, and less...
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Mamenchisaurus tail club, again
In color, this time, with multiple views, thanks to Xing et al. (2009). They also did a finite element analysis of the tail club and concluded that it was a fairly pathetic weapon. Xing et al. closed...
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What’s the deal with your wacky tail-club, Shunosaurus?
In a comment on an earlier article, What’s the deal with your wacky postparapophyses, Shunosaurus?, brian engh asked: What’s the deal with most Shunosaur “life restorations” showing spikes on the tail...
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I only just realised … the draft Phylocode does not recognise electronic...
A comment by Charles Epting on the recent article about self-publication led me to check the relevant section of the draft Phylocode, which I’ve read once or twice before but not recently enough for...
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The Shunosaurus tail-club, revisited: spikes, and complex distal caudals
In a comment on the initial Shunosaurus tail-club post, Jaime Headden pointed out the passage in the Spinophorosaurus paper (Remes et al. 2009) that discusses the club of Shunosaurus (as justification...
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Necks, I win; tails, Wedel loses –or– The SV-POW! Palaeo Paper Challenge
This year, I missed The Paleo Paper Challenge over on Archosaur Musings — it was one of hundreds of blog posts I missed while I was in Cancun with my day-job and then in Bonn for the 2nd International...
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Neural spine bifurcation in sauropods, Part 3: the evidence from ontogenetic...
This is the third post in a series on neural spine bifurcation in sauropods, inspired by Woodruff and Fowler (2012). In the first post, I looked at neural spine bifurcation in Morrison sauropod genera...
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Hot sauropod news, part 1: rampant pneumaticity in saltasaurines
Caudal pneumaticity in saltasaurines. Cerda et al. (2012: fig. 1). Earlier this month I was amazed to see the new paper by Cerda et al. (2012), “Extreme postcranial pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs...
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Night at the Museum: LACM’s Camp Dino
Last night London and I spent the night in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM), as part of the Camp Dino overnight adventure. So we got lots of time to roam the exhibit halls when...
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Crazy pneumatic ostrich caudal
This is a caudal vertebra from the middle of the tail of an ostrich, LACM Bj342: The middle row shows it in anterior, left lateral and posterior views; above and below the anterior view are the dorsal...
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Oblivious sauropods being eaten, part 2: Bakker’s snoozing brontosaur
From The Dinosaur Heresies. Part 1.
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Two SV-POW! papers in the new PLOS Collection!
This is an exciting day: the new PLOS Collection on sauropod gigantism is published to coincide with the start of this year’s SVP meeting! Like all PLOS papers, the contents are free to the world: free...
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Caudal pneumaticity paper in Huffington Post –and– get your PLOS Collection...
A few bits and pieces about the PLOS Collection on sauropod gigantism that launched yesterday. First, there’s a nice write-up of one of our papers (Wedel and Taylor 2013b on pneumaticity in sauropod...
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Caudal pneumaticity in sauropods: in praise of actually looking at fossils
“Look at all the things you’ve done for me Opened up my eyes, Taught me how to see, Notice every tree.” So sings Dot in Move On, the climactic number of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning music...
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 5: Use color
This whole section, including the title, is mostly swiped from Mike’s Tutorial 17. Other posts in this series are here. Papers referenced in these slides: Farke, Andrew A., and Sertich, Joseph J.W....
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 12: Stereo and 3D
Here’s a working version of that link. Working link. Working links: Falkingham (2012) on photogrammetry for free Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 1 Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 2 Mallison...
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The bizarre caudal neural spines of Tambatitanis amicitiae
Today for the first time I saw Saegusa and Ikeda’s (2014) new monograph describing the Japanese titanosauriform Tambatitanis amicitiae. I’ve not yet had a chance to read the paper — well, it’s 65 pages...
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The freakily consistent colour palette of Wedel and Taylor (2013) on caudal...
Back in 2013, when we were in the last stages of preparing our paper Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus (Wedel and Taylor 2013b), I...
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