March 2010
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February 2010
5 posts
Tiny Magyar Sauropod Lived, Frolick'd By The Sea
BREAKING!
Tiny Sauropods lived in a Transylvanian Neverland, NOT a land called Honalee.
Get it RIGHT.
In other news, an old Hungarian Baron was vindicated.
A new study has confirmed that dwarf dinosaurs existed on an island in Transylvania, as well as explained how dinosaurs shrank during the Late Cretaceous at the Neverland-like place where they never really grew up.
Earlier, Hungarian...
Whoever named Bothriospondylus just got SMACKED...
High-profile whupping for some unfortunate dino-cladist in Paleontology:
The sauropod dinosaur ‘Bothriospondylus’, originally named on the basis of Late Jurassic remains from England, is demonstrated to be invalid, and the characters used to diagnose it are shown to be obsolescent features which are widespread throughout Sauropoda.
SLAM JAM!
Don't want no Short Neck Sauropod PARLATITAN →
November 2009
6 posts
GIANT SAUROPOD-SIZED SAUROPOD DISCOVERY OF MISSING...
OMFG!!!!! Scientists have discovered THE MISSING LINK (of sauropods)!!!
It’s easy to get caught up in the gigantism of sauropodomorphs, to get embroiled in the keeping up with the titanosaurs, race-to-the-top that seems endemic to amateur sauropod-lovers. But step back from the obsession for a moment and ask yourself. WHY? The fundamental morpholology of the dinosaur is birdlike,...
New Zealand discovers Sauropods!
New Zealand, the island country formerly known for its flightless birds and Rogernomics, was apparently CHOCK FULL OF SWEET SWEET SAUROPODS. Its true. See if you can decipher this New Zealand jargon:
“A scientist who went exploring in the South Island for oil and gas came back with a much rarer find. Dr Greg Browne accidentally discovered the first ever dinosaur footprints in the country....
Don't stop get it get it let me see your Jetpack...
K. Here it is.
Some initial thoughts: (a) That must be a really big jetpack. (b) It’s an apatosaurus, not a brontosaurus. (c) Does this sauropod not need oxygen? (d) How much is that dippy helmet* going to help if this space-sauropod crashes into something? (e) Given the mass of a sauropod, could a space sail be effective?
Most importantly, will someone please play this flashgame and...
Sauropod living in Tucson, reviewing books on...
Yep. Song of Songs: A New Translation. That’s what a “Sauropod” reads.
In addition, this “Sauropod” thinks the HP Deskjet 5440 is “junk,” and has an “Interesting Friend” named “Newt Gingrich.”
MC Dinah Diplodocus
Have you ever heard Dinosaur Rock? No? Well, you have no excuses because it won a PARENT’S CHOICE GOLD AWARD in 1994!!!! Big time hits like The Hadrasaur from Hackensack are very much included. My parents used to play it for me on long car trips. Wait. Maybe that’s why I am now blogging about Sauropods.
BUY IT FOR YOUR CHILDREN. AND YOUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN.
October 2009
23 posts
NEW BRITISH SAUROPOD DISCOVERED IN BRITAIN
It’s just “a new species of dinosaur bone.” At least, that’s the scoop according to the disturbingly incorrect prose that passes for dinojournalism at the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard.
Nah but really. It’s a dinosaur. Specifically it’s a Cetiosauriscus, a diplodocoid which proudly owned the 8 foot ham-hock pictured on the left.
In true small town...
Illinois Suburbanite wants to touch them. ...
Look, I think what you’re doing is great, getting suburban kids into paleontology. But can you find another way to say it?
“It’s not just ‘let’s talk about dinosaurs,’ it’s ‘let’s touch them.’”
WatchOooh! Crooks and Liars points us to Miss Anne Elk’s Theory on Brontosauruses.
Smithsonian has a SWEET Blogasaurus
Who Knew? Your TAX DOLLARS are hard at work funding “Dinosaur Tracking,” a super-sweet blogasaurus about dinosaurs.
In fact, this week’s “Sauropod of the Week” came from DT’s recent post on potential sauro-stars for Jurassic Park 4. DT is actually running a poll, and Nigersaurus is losing by 16 votes!
Quick! To the observatory!
*The Smithsonian rides the...
Sauropod of the Week: Nigersaurus
NOW THAT’S a FUNKY DINO.
Fossil Auction is your chance to OWN a sauropod
Why did the sauropods die out? Because they lacked private property. Help them! Use currency to purchase ownership of a small piece of their fossilized skeletons!
How to do this pray tell?
Well, if you’re a big time baller, you can just go to Vegas and drop a cool $500,000 on a 28-foot long Hadrosaurid. Seems like a steal, no?
But, if sauropods are your game, and money IS an object,...
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Scientists: YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT SAUROPODS
Yes, you. Because you KNOW that you are GUILTY of making the Sauropod::Giraffe analogy. And it is WRONG. At least, so say the scientists.
Prevailing wisdom has it that these leviathans used their necks like giraffes today. They reached up high into the trees, munching leisurely on forest canopy that was out of reach for rival herbivores.
Not so, says a paper appearing in Biology Letters, a...
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BREAKING: Big Time French Sauropod tracks found in...
Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1.4 meters to 1.5 meters (4.6 feet to 4.9 feet) in diameter.
The site of the find, high in the Jura mountains, was once a literal sauropod stomping ground: So far, 20 prints scattered on a 10-hectare (25-acre) site have been uncovered, paleontologist...
Tamil Nadu no longer got them Sauropod Eggs
Bummer.
Clusters of fossilised dinosaur eggs recently unearthed from a river bed in a village in Tamil Nadu by research students, have allegedly been pilfered by the public, hoping to cash in on the prized find. Reports from Senthurai village in Ariyalur district said many of the 65-million-year-old eggs, buried in a river bed there, have been taken away by people.
While the fossilized eggs...
Move Over Tamil Nadu. Texas has an OFFICIAL STATE...
Socialism!!!! Ok, not really.
What’s great about this Star-Telegram piece is that, in addition to being about Sauropods, it has like 12 ledes:
The official state dinosaur would look big even inside Cowboys Stadium.
The creature stood 15 feet tall at the shoulders.
Sixty feet long, head to tail, it weighed 20 tons or more.
Sadly, despite being native to Texas, the species lived and...
Tamil Nadu got them Sauropod Eggs
That’s right! A “Jurassic hoard” of “football-sized” eggs (fossilized, natch) have been found in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which has long been known for being a place where Sauropods got it on. The eggs, while quite valuable scientifically, were apparently infertile, and covered in volcanic ash. Bummer. So, what does this mean for me?
BRONTO-OMELLETTE???
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Aquatic Hipster Sauropod Sighted in Gowanus?
Watch out! This possible Sauropod was recently sighted in Gowanus. Sayeth the artist who rendered her:
The Gowanus canal in Brooklyn is generally known as one of the most disgusting, filthy bodies of water in the entire country. This probably because of its close proximity to the dirty hipsters who live around it.
This pollution has even affected the local wildlife, and Zooey is a prime...
September 2009
9 posts
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I choose you, Sauropod.
I have no idea what “Yu-Gi-Oh!” is, but I like what they’re doing with this sauropod.
(pic via ecrater.com)
Spiky-Tailed Bronto, "Giraffe of the Mesozoic" ARE...
In twin discoveries that will SHOCK the WORLD of SAUROPODS, two new Sauropods were discovered last week. Qiaowanlong Kangxii, the FIRST early Cretaceous Brachiosaurid to be discovered in Asia (What What!!!) is an economy-sized 10 tons, small by Sauropod standards, but it had a very unique pelvis. Ooh la la! It is also being hailed as the “Giraffe of the Mesozoic.”
Giraffes, tho,...
Raptorex? NOT a sauropod. →
Where Supersaurus at?
RIGHT HERE.
Also, these proto-mammals in the foreground are right to be upset at their imminent death-by-trampling.
Look at this Fucking Sauropod
Just look at it. Quadripedal. Gargantuan. Herbivorous. Oh my god. It’s moving in a herd.
THEY DO MOVE IN HERDS.
(Photo via Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week.)