… are weirder than you CAN imagine … XKCD tip from artist John Conway’s Twitter feed.
Tag: Dinosaurs
Darren’s Opinion of Feathered Dinos…
Darren’s opinion on feathered dinos is at LEAST as strong as mine, and better informed– but I didn’t do a T- Shirt. I don’t usually wear one, but I have ordered his, in a kind of dayglo golden orange at that… Darren’s blog(s)– his has had several versions and sponsors– have been what I thought …
Update on “Beebesaurus”
… also known as Microraptor gui. I painted it a sort of irridescent black, to conform with what is known about its feathers. Can’t believe how much it looks like Beebe’s bookplate in his pre- WW I (1910) book Our Search for a Wilderness. Microraptor was dug up in China in 2003.
Raptor vs Rex
Moro Rogers has a delightful new serial webcomic, featuring the adventures of a (properly feathered) “Raptor”*. * Mark Witton will explain why “Raptor” is a dumb common term for Dromaeosaurs. Not Moro’s fault– she knows Dinos– just pop culture’s.
Paradigm SHIFTED
… decisively: not the “Cover of the Rolling Stone” as I have been calling it but, of course, that of Scientific American. I thought at first they were a bit late to the party, as it was the late John Ostrom who started the ball rolling with his discovery of Deinonychus, which he reported in …
Paradigm Shift!
It’s happening NOW. Tim Gallagher just sent me this image from a comics website: feathered tyrannosaurid attacking Roman legionnaires!
Feathers
Bird and Moon knows “raptors” have feathers… (HT Annie Davidson). Apparently, Stephen Spielberg does not.
If you prefer featherless Dinos…
… like those in Jurassic Park, you might also think chickens look like this:
“Washington and Moscow”
In 1983, artist and evolutionary biologist John Mcloughlin was so sure of feathered Dinos that, in his novel The Helix and the Sword, he gave the role of the pets and executioners of his post -Apocalyptic Asteroid Belt civilization’s cruel “Regent” to a pair of eagle- like, genetically re- created Deinonychids, with feathers like Golden …
Links, Big Birds, and all the news that fits…
When you have been dealing with meds and other unavoidable and annoying facts of aging, everything piles up. You don’t think Lucas Machias or Lane B stops mailing or that Annie D doesn’t send me a mix of the surreal and the biological, or JP stops writing his serious essays, do you? The world goes …