http://www.hmnh.org The institutionalized doodles and discoveries of a dead-animal designer. Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/02/07/hairball-02-07-10/ http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/02/07/hairball-02-07-10/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:04:49 +0000 Matt Celeskey http://www.hmnh.org/?p=1843 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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• New basal alvarezsaur: Haplocheirus sollers.
• What’s an alvarezsaur? Dave Hone’s got it covered.
• Why is a basal one noteworthy? Jonah Choiniere, of Haplocheirus-description team, puts it in context and highlights some of its unique features.
• Fossil pigment 1: Belemnite ink
• Fossil pigment 2: Chestnut-striped coelurosaurs
• Happy Family: Proboscidea
• Medical Texts: A long, painful decline (courtesy bioephemera)
• The Wonderful World: Compellingly awful

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• A trip through Desmatosuchus country, and a beautifully rendered restoration of the same aetosaur.
• New Mesozoic exhibit at the VMNH.
• Osteology of the Utahan therizinosaur Falcarius.
• Albertaceratops and young.
• Synapsid review I: A gallery of “mammal-like reptiles,” remarkable in its completeness. Ruthiromia? Lumkuia? Fantastic. (courtesy The Dragon’s Tales).
• Synapsid review II: Developmental Paleontology. (courtesy Palaeoblog) And more developmental palaeontology, synapsid and otherwise.
• Lovely little sketch of Turkana/Narikotome Boy. Or at least his skull.
  
• Palorchestes, the “marsupial ground sloth” with a joey in its pouch.
• Other bodily companions: Parasite of the Day.

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