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The Elephant in the Cave: Accurate vs Familiar vs Usual in Paleoart

Photo copyright Derek Bromhall, borrowed from ARKive. Let’s say you want to paint an elephant. Where will you locate your elephant, and what will it be doing? If you depict an elephant standing on a...

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Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus maquette, Part 5: posture

This  is the fifth in a series of posts reviewing the Apatosaurus maquette from Sideshow Collectibles. Other posts in the series are: Part 1: intro Part 2: the head Part 3: the neck Part 4: body,...

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Walking with Oliphaunts: Bibi et al (2012) on the Mleisa elephant trackways

Stegotetrabelodon making tracks at Mleisa, © Mauricio Antón Sweet new paper out today by Bibi et al. in Biology Letters, on some awesome elephant tracks from the United Arab Emirates. I’ve known this...

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How fat is an elephant?

We jumped the gun a bit in asking How fat was Camarasaurus? a couple of years ago, or indeed How fat was Brontosaurus? last year. As always, we should have started with extant taxa, to get a sense of...

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Crocodiles vs. elephants

I’ve been reading The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats (Wood 1982) again. Here’s what he says on pages 98-99 about the strength of crocodiles, and what happens when they bite off more than they...

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A quick stop at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

I’m back in Oklahoma for the holidays, and anytime I’m near Norman I pop in to the OMNH to see old friends, both living and fossil. Here’s the Aquilops display in the hall of ancient life, which has...

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Ask SV-POW!: Could you wield a club made from a dinosaur femur?

Norwescon 41 Guests of Honor: Ken Liu, Galen Dara, and, er, me. Mike would like to remind you that you can get your own ‘Kylo Stabbed First’ t-shirt here. The week before last I was fortunate to be the...

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Museum of Osteology, June 2018 visit

Click to embiggen. Trust me. Last year about this time I wrote: Here’s a stupid thing: roughly 2-3 times a year I go to the field or to a museum and get hundreds of SV-POW!-able photos. Then I get back...

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