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Upcoming book signings
Come gawk at this weirdo in public! I’ll be signing copies of The Sauropod Dinosaurs: Life in the Age of Giants at regional events the next two weekends. This this coming Saturday, April 22, I’ll be at...
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There has been an Aquilopsing – have you felt it?
Cryptic Aquilops, by Brian Engh. Available as a poster print – see below. One of the many nice things about getting to help name new taxa is that once you let them out into the world, other people can...
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Listen to Matt spout nonsense on Fist Full of Podcasts
Hey sports fans! I met David Lindblad at Beer ‘N Bones at the Arizona Museum of Natural History last month, and he invited me to talk dinosaurs on his podcast. So I did (LINK). For two hours. Some of...
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Valley of the Mastodons is coming at the Western Science Center in Hemet,...
(c) Brian Engh and the Western Science Center Quick hit here: all this week there are mastodon-themed events going on at the Western Science Center in Hemet, including talks from paleontologists and an...
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Brontosmash: The Field Trip (the teaser)
This past weekend I was camping up the coast at Hearst San Simeon State Park, with my son, London, and Brian Engh. We went to see the elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas. It was my first time...
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In quest of monsters – last week’s Utah adventure
Last Wednesday, May 9, Brian Engh and I bombed out to Utah for a few days of paleo adventures. Here are some highlights from our trip. We started at a Triassic tracksite on Thursday. But I’m not going...
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Another Utah trip, and Aquilops on display at Dinosaur Journey
I was back in Utah the week before last, looking for monsters with Brian Engh and Jessie Atterholt. It was a successful hunt – more about that another time. We made a run to Fruita, Colorado, to visit...
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You have been summoned! Announcing the SummonENGH 2018 Paleoart Contest
My good friend, frequent collaborator, and fellow adventurer Brian Engh has won the John J. Lanzendorf Paleoart Prize for 2D paleoart (there are also categories for 3D paleoart and scientific...
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You have been BEATEN!! Announcing the SummonENGH 2018 Paleoart Contest winner!
Well, that didn’t take long. Earlier today, my subterranean hacker collective released thousands of emails exchanged by Mike Taylor and Brian Engh, which touched on numerous issues of national and...
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Please welcome Mirarce eatoni
Skeletal reconstruction of Mirarce by Scott Hartman (Atterholt et al. 2018: fig. 19). Recovered bones in white, missing bones in gray. The humerus is 95.9mm long. Today sees the publication of the...
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Bone cancer in a Triassic stem turtle
Cool new paper out today by Yara Haridy and colleagues, describing the oldest known osteosarcoma in the vertebrate fossil record. The growth in question is on the proximal femur of the Triassic stem...
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My sauroponderous birthday card from Brian Engh
Okay, so here on the Best Coast it’s not technically my birthday for another 3 hours, but SV-POW! runs on England time, and at the SV-POW! global headquarters bunker it’s already June 3. Oh, and...
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Parasaurolophus sculpture by Brian Engh
This past summer I did a post on my birthday card from Brian Engh, but I haven’t posted about my birthday present from him: this handmade fired-clay sculpture of Parasaurolophus. I don’t have a ton to...
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The Snowmass Haplocanthosaurus project is now a museum exhibit
A life-size silhouette of the Snowmass Haplocanthosaurus, with Thierra Nalley, me, and Jessie Atterholt for scale. Photo by Jeremiah Scott. Tiny Titan, a temporary exhibit about the Snowmass...
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Welcome…to Jurassic Reimagined
Over the past few years I’ve dropped hints here and there about the work I’ve been doing in the Morrison Formation of Utah with Brian Engh, John Foster, ReBecca Hunt-Foster, Jessie Atterholt, and...
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A Haplocanthosaurus in the Salt Wash
If you’re thinking that it’s about time to look at some sauropod vertebrae from the Salt Wash member of the Morrison Formation, well, you’re gol-durned right, pardner. Let’s ride. Here’s a vertebra...
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At last it can be told: we found a big Brachiosaurus in the Salt Wash
FHPR 17108, a right humerus of Brachiosaurus, with Wes Bartlett and his Clydesdale Molly for scale. Original paleoart by Brian Engh. Last May I was out in the Salt Wash member of the Morrison Formation...
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The Dilophosaurus redescription by Marsh and Rowe is now freely available
The new monster redescription of Dilophosaurus by Adam Marsh and Tim Rowe came out in the Journal of Paleontology last week. I’m blogging about it now because the OA link just went live yesterday. So...
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Imaging bone cells in 420-million-year-old jawless fish
The early armored fish Bothriolepis, which Yara Haridy affectionately refers to as a “beetle mermaid”. Art by Brian Engh, dontmesswithdinosaurs.com. If I had to sum up my main research program over...
View ArticleMy Brachiosaurus talk for Dinosaur Journey is now on YouTube
My Oct. 13 National Fossil Day public lecture, “Lost Giants of the Jurassic”, for the Museums of Western Colorado – Dinosaur Journey is now up on their YouTube channel. First 48 minutes are talk, last...
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