Ooh, missed this.

Long necked stegosaurid!

Wait, a Chinese chasmosaurine ceratopsian? How did I miss this?

S'about four people who're gonna get any of this, but still:

From a forum I read:


"Update on /dino/ most hated Paleontologist, Jack Horner.
A few weeks ago I was at Montana with a dino dig hosted by Montana State Univ/Museum of the Rockies, and Jack was there with us. Slightly socially inept fellow when it comes to motivating the crews, yet he's extremely good at getting what he wanted from the sponsors, including a helicoptor.
He shaved his beard off, which is a shock.
Oh and he's also an ass. Cheated on his wife a few years back and resulted in a divorce. He's now with another woman that's not the girlfriend that he cheated on his wife with.
He's proposing a theory that TOROSAURUS IS THE ADULT FORM OF TRICERATOPS. He backs it up with the fact that they've found dozens of Triceratops skulls at various growth edges, and it seems that older individuals have straighter horns and longer, smooth edged frills that starts to resorb bone in the center. (protip. Triceratops have solid frills and Torosaurus have windowed frills) Also the fact that they've found no juvenile Torosaurus, but many juvy and baby Triceratops. SO THEREFORE TOROSAURUS IS TRICERATOPS.
We've also worked on the disarticulated skeleton of a juvenile Triceratops. Its brow horns are pointing backwards, instead of forwards.
Regardless, Jack's still an ass. He drags the crew out during thunderstorms just so we can work in the background while he gets filmed by the National Geographics, and he never actually dig anymore, just go around prospecting for fossils.
Similarly, he also thinks that Dracorex -> Stygimoloch -> Pacycephalosaurus are the same animal at diff. stages. Guy must be playing a lot of pokemon."

"Thagomizer" has been adopted as an official biological term!.

Edit: And in BWAHUH news, "The collective noun for baboons is commonly troop or congress, although flange is also becoming common. The latter unusual term originates from a Not the Nine O'Clock News comedy sketch entitled "Gerald The Intelligent Gorilla" where it was used for comic effect."
- Martin, you may start your screaming now.

Edit 2:

The popularity of the stocky, moustached batsman extended beyond thepitch, where he became something of a cult figure for his drinkingexploits and singing of team songs. He famously vomited on the hallowedAdelaide Oval turf in a WSC game in 1988 before a live nationwide TV audience of millions (he went on to make 122 and win Man Of The Match)..

Ugh. Have I become, in effect, a palaeo-snob?

I was in the kitchen getting dinner, and there's a new series - "Prehistoric Park" - premiering.

And it sucks. So very much. The dinosaurs are fine.

But it's this guy running around in the forest, pointing to random branches and sticks, and mutteirng "Hmm, they've been this way recently!" or "We must be close, I can smell them!".

And it's so LAME. WWD/WWB at least maintained the documentary approach of staying "hands off", at least before their latter series like "Swimming With Monsters" or whatnot (I've not seen that.)

I just feel that these attempts with people running around just seem so hokey and ridiculous.

Swiped from ozraptor4

"Bakker, R. T., Sullivan, R. M., Porter, V., Larson, P. and Salsbury, S.
J. 2006 “Dracorex hogwartsia, n. gen., n. sp., a spiked, flat-headed
pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek
Formation of South Dakota.” in Lucas, S. G. and Sullivan, R. M., eds.,
Late Cretaceous vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico
Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35, p. 331–345."



Yes, that IS its name.

Dracorex hogwartsia<.

OK, this is pretty neat.

A Plateosaurus bone, found *2256 metres* below the sea-bed, off the coast of Norway.



Crossposted to dinosaurs

Eheeheeheeheee! - now if they make them in other designs...

John Ostrom passed away on 16th July, 2005..

A very important man in modern palaeontology.

This is a test of the emergency thing system.

Amargasaurus

Breviparasaurus

Camarasaurus

Dicraeosaurus


Just trying something