Of New Zoos and Old Libraries
Catalogue of Organisms,
In May 2009, a small fossil mammal was announced to the world as Darwinius masillae. Despite looking (let's be honest) like…
In May 2009, a small fossil mammal was announced to the world as Darwinius masillae. Despite looking (let's be honest) like…
Reconstruction of the dinosaur Aerosteon riocoloradensis, from here. This species was published in electronic-only format in…
In the process of writing a post on bird evolution, it occurred to me that it might be helpful to re-post something I wrote a…
If you’re new to this thread, here’s a minimal reading list, in chronological order. I say ‘minimal’ because all of the…
In the last post I introduced Aerosteon, which has been touted as providing the first solid evidence for bird-like air sacs in…
Evidence for Avian Intrathoracic Air Sacs in a New Predatory Dinosaur from Argentina. 2008. P.C. Sereno, et al. PLoS ONE 3(9):e33…
Pneumatic dorsal vertebrae of Aerosteon (Sereno et al. 2008:fig 7) Big news this week: Sereno et al. (2008) described a new…
New Dinosaur: Aerosteon…