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- New paper dispells Komodo myth. Also Megalania may have been the world’s largest venomous animal.
- Categories :Extant Reptiles, Extinct Reptiles, Lacertilia, Uncategorized
- Tag :auffenberg, finite element analysis, komodo dragon, Megalania, megalania prisca, ora, toxicofera, varanid, varanus komodoensis, venom, venomous, venomous dragons, venomous komodo dragons
- Sprawling crocodylians walk straight even if there isn’t much O2 to go around.
- Categories :Crocodylia, Extant Reptiles, Extinct Reptiles, Uncategorized
- Tag :alligator, caiman, caiman sclerops, ceratopian, ceratopsian, crocodile, crocodylian, dinosaurs, erect, hyperoxia, hypoxia, ken carpenter, kenneth carpenter, lateral motion, normoxia, owerkowicz, paleo atmosphere, parasagittal, sprawling, track making, trackways
- A critical evalution of Tianyulong confiusci – part 3: Plucking at the idea of feathered dinosaurs
- Categories :Dinosaurs, Uncategorized
- Tag :cold blooded, dinosaurs, feathered dinosaurs, feathers, filament, heterdontosaur, integument, keratin, ornithischian, protofeathers, reptiles, saurischian, scaleless reptiles, scales, tianyulong, warm-blooded
- A critical evaluation of Tianyulong confiusci – part 2
- Categories :Dinosaurs, Uncategorized
- Tag :china, fake fossils, feathered dinosaurs, heterdontosaurids, heterodontosaurus, integument, liaoning, proto feathers, protofeathers, psittacosaurus, quilled psittacosaurus, quills, Sinosauropteryx, tianyulong
- A critical evaluation of Tianyulong confiusci – part 1
- Categories :Dinosaurs, Uncategorized
- Tag :archaeoraptor, beipiaosaurus, caudipteryx, china, feathered dinosaur, feathers in dinosaurs, forgeries, heterodontosaurid, liaoning, Microraptor, ornithischian, protarchaeopteryx, protofeathers, quills, saurischian, sinornithosaurus, tianyulong, tianyulong confiusci, yixian
- Feathers in ornithischians? Probably not.
- Categories :Dinosaurs, Uncategorized
- Tag :dino fuzz, feather controversy, feathers, feathers on an ornithischian, heterodontosaurid, proto feather, psittacosaurus, quills, Tianyulong confuciusi
- Two new paleo-herps illustrate the problems of a persistent reptile myth.
- Categories :Extinct Reptiles, Uncategorized
- Tag :alligator sinensis, aurorachelys, chinese alligator, crocodylians, deinosuchus, ecological thermometer, fossils, halocline, herpetology, palaeocene, paleontology., reptile myths, reptiles, salt excretion, titanoboa, world's largest snake
- One more reason why David Attenborough is cool.
- Categories :Uncategorized
- Tag :bbc, blue planet, bot flies, creationism, david attenborough, Documentaries, eye boring worm, life in cold blood, life in the undergrowth, nature documentaries, planet earth, religion, reptiles, science
- T-U-R-T-L-E Power! Part 1: Turtles are Weird.
- Categories :Chelonia, Uncategorized
- Tag :box turtle, chelonian, climbing turtles, snapping turtle, sternotherus, terrapene, testudine, tortoise, turtle, turtle breathing, turtle shell, turtle skeleton, Turtles, weird turtles
- Back into the groove.
- Categories :Uncategorized
- Tag :blogging hibernating posting