Author Archives: Jura
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- Back up and running
- Categories :Uncategorized
- Tag :fixed, hacked, reptipage, wordpress
- Bad-ass shield crocs, or: Another weird Mesozoic crocodyliform
- Categories :Crurotarsi, Extinct Reptiles
- Tag :Aegisuchus, Aegisuchus witmeri, aegyptosuchids, crocodyliform, filter feeding, shield croc, Stomatosuchus, suction feeding, Witmer
- Turns out that plesiosaurs gave birth to live young. It’s about damned time.
- Categories :Crurotarsi, Extinct Reptiles, Sauropterygia, Uncategorized
- Tag :live birth, metriorhynchids, oviparity, ovoviviparity, plesiosaur, plesiosaurs, viviparity
- The 3D alligator
- Categories :Crocodylia, Extant Reptiles, Uncategorized
- Tag :3D alligator, alligator, alligator mississippiensis, American alligator, archosaur, crocodilian, crocodylian, dinosaur, model organism
- Metabolism part II: MSMR and the myth of the quarter power law
- Categories :Extant Reptiles, Extinct Reptiles
- Tag :allometric, allometry, BMR, cold blooded, ectotherm, endotherm, Kleiber, mass specific metabolic rate, metabolism, MSMR, regression, regression equations, RMR, Rubner, warm-blooded
- Metabolism part I: The importance of being specific
- Categories :Extant Reptiles, Extinct Reptiles, Uncategorized
- Tag :BMR, metabolic rate, metabolics, metabolism, RMR
- Nile crocodile takes on elephant
- Categories :Uncategorized
- Tag :crocodile, crocodile attacks elephant, crocodylus niloticus, elephant, nile crocodile
- T-U-R-T-L-E Power Part 3: Leatherbacks Break All the Rules.
- Categories :Chelonia, Extant Reptiles, Uncategorized
- Tag :brown fat, dermochelys coriacea, ectotherm, endotherm, gigantothermy, high growth rates, homeotherm, inertial homeotherm, jellyfish, leatherback, respiratory turbinates
- T-U-R-T-L-E Power! Part 2: The weird and wacky origin of turtles.
- Categories :Chelonia, Extant Reptiles, Extinct Reptiles, Uncategorized
- Tag :anapsid, archosaur, chelonian, diapsid, eunotosaurus, odontochelys, pareiasaur, procolophonoid, proganochelys, sauropterygia, testudines, tortoises, turtle relationships, Turtles
- Get in on the deal: Indiana University Press one day sale.
- Categories :Extant Reptiles, Extinct Reptiles, Uncategorized
- Tag :ankylosaurs, book sale, deinosuchus, dinosaurs, Indiana University Press, IUP, Life of the Past, mosasaurs, reptiles