September | 2024 | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
4 posts published by Matt Wedel during September 2024| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
4 posts published by Matt Wedel during September 2024| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
7 posts published by Mike Taylor and Matt Wedel during July 2025| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Today sees the publication of what is, OK, an interesting paper on how the serrated trailing edge of the flippers of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus may have enabled it to generate less turbulence…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
[This post received first place in the 2024 Blog Extravaganza at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History. Many thanks, Adam!] I first had this thought in 2019, and I started this draft in ear…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
I’ll be sending this letter to the Royal Society, but I also want it out there in public, because I hope that more people will follow the lead set by Dorothy Bishop and Stephen Curry in putti…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
As we’ve often observed, it’s a funny thing that incredibly well-known dinosaur specimens can sit around for decades, or for more than a century, before someone notices something fascin…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Considering how much time I’ve spent playing around mounted sauropod skeletons, I cannot believe it never occurred to me to do this: This is the mounted Brachiosaurus skeleton in the United t…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
The paper Taylor, Michael P., and Matthew J. Wedel. 2023. Novel pneumatic features in the ribs of the sauropod dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68(4): 709–718. doi:1…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
This morning, I was invited to review a paper — one very relevant to my interests — for a non-open-access journal owned by one of the large commercial barrier-based publishers. This has…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
After P.A.S.T president Gilles Danis commented on our post about the Chicago airport Brachiosaurus mount, I got into an interesting email conversation with him. Here, posted with his kind permissio…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
