Patterns in Palaeontology: From giants to dwarfs – Estimating the body mass of extinct species
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(a) Type locality of Notocolossus (indicated by star) in southern-most Mendoza Province, Argentina. (b) Reconstructed skeleton…
Plants and…
Follow-up post where I share a list and chart of 2014 Top 25 Paywalled and Top 25 Open Access Outputs in the 2014 Altmetric…
Klein et al. (2012: fig. 1) We have good descriptions of the proximal parts of the cervical ribs for lots of sauropods. We also…
In a comment on the last post, on the mass of Dreadnoughtus, Asier Larramendi wrote: The body mass should be considerably lower…
In the paper describing the new giant titanosaur Dreadnoughtus, Lacovara et al. (2014) use the limb bone allometry equation of…
Ważył 65 ton, miał około 25,5 m długości i jak zapewniają badacze jest to największe zwierzę lądowe, którego masę można […]
Yay, vertebrae! Lacovara et al. (2014: fig. 1) Mike and I are in York for SVPCA — more on that soonish — and I just wanted to…
A newly discovered dinosaur named Dreadnoughtus schrani has laid claim to the title of world's largest terrestrial animal…
I’m sure you’ve heard. The most complete skeleton of a titanosaur, a newly named species, Dreadnoughtus schrani, is being…
Dinosaur fans around the world are going ballistic over Dreadnoughtus schrani, a new titanosaur discovered in Patagonia. A…
crownedrose: Today is so exciting for a ton of fellow palaeontologists, students, researchers, and myself… Dreadnoughtus has…
Argentina A new dinosaur Dreadnoughtus schrani has been found in Patagonia. It lived 77 million years ago and was 26 meters…
I noticed two items this week regarding species previously unknown to us. They’ve both been labelled ‘new’, although they are…
Imagem artística do Dreadnoughtus (sem penas, ufa). Apesar de alguns cientistas insistirem em destruir minha infância afirmando…
If you, like me, are something of a paleo-romantic, Swooning over dinosaurs both fearsome and gigantic, Come feast your eyes…
A multinational group of paleontologists has described a new titanosaurian dinosaur, named Dreadnoughtus schrani, from Upper…
Los científicos han descubierto y descrito una nueva especie de dinosaurio súper masivo con el esqueleto más completo que se…
Jennifer Hall Some species of dinosaur were astonishingly enormous compared to anything alive on land today, which…
Jennifer Hall Some species of dinosaur were astonishingly enormous compared to anything alive on land today, which…
The NFL’s season officially opens tonight as Seattle and Green Bay duke it out in prime time. But if you placed both teams’ 53…
Image credits: Jennifer Hall. A newly found superdinosaur Dreadnoughtus schrani, is the largest known land animal for which…
Dreadnoughtus schrani Lacovara, Lamanna, Ibiricu, Poole, Schroeter, Ullmann, Voegele, Boles, Carter, Fowler, Egerton, Moyer…
Paleontologists in southern Patagonia, Argentina, have discovered fossils of a new long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur the size…
Plants and…
A gargantuan, long-necked dinosaur as big as a two-story house and weighing as much as 12 elephants once stalked a flower-dotted…
Scientists have discovered and described a new supermassive dinosaur species with the most complete skeleton ever found of its…