Hairball 02.07.10
5:04 pm
Several new (and newish) blogs in this weeks tangle of links:
- Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: a daily dose of Mesozoic megafauna. Highly recommended. This week’s pick: An interview with pterosaur researcher/artist Mark Witton.
- Pterosaur.net Blog: posts from Mark Witton and the rest of the team at Pterosaur.net. Pick: John Conway’s discussion of the Pot-bellied Pteranodon.
- Jim Robins Zoo.Art: art of a paleontological nature. Pick: The multi-view rendering of Caudipteryx zoui.
- Theropod Database: Mickey Mortimer’s in-depth examinations of theropod anatomy and phylogenetics. Pick: A handsome little picture of the first Asian alvarezsaur fossil ever cataloged.
- Morbid Anatomy shows off an admission certificate for an 1869 course on Practical Anatomy. Instructor: Joseph Leidy, who named the first American dinosaurs.
- Laelaps describes how Arctodus simus, the Pleistocene “short-faced bear,” got a makeover.
- More fossil pigments: the plumage color patterns of Anchornis. In 3D!
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