Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
The “Bizarre Headgear” exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum is incredible
The mystery of the other rearing sauropod of the Egidio Feruglio museum
Looking for CC By photos of these rearing sauropod mounts
An even earlier life restoration of a sauropod (1885)
The Lego Natural History Museum, and the question of scale
Upcoming public talks about dinosaurs at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
On the evolution of the atlas-axis complex
In search of rearing mounted sauropod skeletons
The Nazi sauropod — Giraffatitan (= “Brachiosaurus“) brancai in 1937
The checklist for new zoological genus and species names is published
Checklist for new zoological genus and species names
What was the first life restoration of a sauropod?
Belatedly … here’s DRAFT v4 of the checklist for new zoological genus and species names
Never name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus
Stop it, birds, your necks are stupid
Yet more raptors with their heads on backwards
Three Four quotes about doing good work
Do it yourself.
More raptors with their heads on backwards
New paper: Hart et al. 2025 on neural canal ridges in crocs
SV-POW! is an AI-free zone
Book Week 2025, Day 8: Jurassic West, 2nd edition, by John Foster
Book Week 2025, Day 7: Three favorites by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Book Week 2025, Day 6: The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, by John Muir Laws
Book Week 2025, Day 5: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, by Riley Black
Book Week 2025, Day 4: Otherlands, by Thomas Halliday
Book Week 2025, Day 3: Dungeon delvers delight in Dr Dhrohlin’s Dictionary of Dinosaurs
Book Week 2025, Day 2: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Steve Brusatte
Book Week 2025, Day 1: Speed Thief Vol 1, by Sean Hennessy
Tutorial 48: my museum collections kit
How — and where — should we measure neural canal diameter?
More on that “Ultrasaurus” scap photo
What LLMs are really saving you from
Colour photos of the “Ultrasaurus” quarry
Yet more lying necks: Backwards Birds edition
Video of the 2024 SSP debate: “The open access movement has failed”
If you’d built a “tool” that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?
New paper: pneumatic diverticula and blood vessels in the neural canals of the toothed birds Ichthyornis and Janavis
Necks: the lying liars that just keep lying
Get your name into the permanent scientific record!
Midnight in the Museum
Want to help fund the free publication of sauropod science? Now’s your chance!
My first palaeo paper is 20 years old today!
Alex Pritchard’s Aquilops and friends
Yapping about sauropods on Dave Hone’s Terrible Lizards podcast
A PDF of Kingham (1962) on Astrodon
Matt’s DinoCon 2025 adventure
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence; it just isn’t proof