The Dinosource

• Stegosaur skin impressions!
• Description of Sophie the Stegosaurus
• Your Dinosaurs are Wrong discuss new Stegosaurus findings
• An illustration of Stegosaurus posture
• Ankylosaurus is a weird ankylosaurid
• The Bakker idea of Stegosaurus flipping its plates to one side or another is from The Dinosaur Heresies, p 229-234
• Okay, the word “steglings” isn’t super well supported
• The “thagomizer” comic that started it all

• Patrick Murphy’s savage tweet about O.C. Marsh

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• Megalosaurus as a valid species
• List of previously-held Megalosaurus species
• Richard Owen describes Dinosauria (starting on page 102)

• The illustration of “Scrotum humanum”

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References

• Hone and Naish on the idea that dinosaurs evolved complicated frills or display structures to aid in species recognition
• Peterson et al. on evidence for pachycephalosaurid head-butting behaviour
• Sternberg gives the group name Pachycephalosauridae over Stegoceridae
• Galton and Sues renaming Stegoceras validus to Stegoceras validum, apparently because they’re better at Latin
• Journal article by Peczkis categorizing the weight of dinosaurs
• Anderson et al on how to estimate the weight of dinosaurs
• Xing et al describing Yi Qi

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References

• John Ostrom on the origin of flight
• John Ostrom on Deinonychus, a very bird-like theropod
• Dinosaur supertree
• Robert Bakker et al on dinosaur monophyly (i.e. all dinosaurs share a common ancestor)
• Evidence of dinosaur nesting behaviour
• A lot of research in this episode comes from the second edition of The Dinosauria
• A good primer on iguanodon
• Andrea Cau on the evolution of birds, with notes on Archaeopteryx
• Thomas Henry Huxley on the relationship of birds and dinosaurs
• John Horner's 1979 paper documenting a dinosaur nest

Other Links

• The "Reaper of Death", a new tyrannosaur description from Canada's midwest

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References

- Paul Sereno's landmark 1999 paper on the evolution of dinosaurs
- The new paper by Baron et al that's changing things up
- Xu Xing et al describing Yutyrannus
- How did sauropods get so big?
- Sauropod tooth replacement rates
- Original paper describing brachiosaurus
- A more recent paper on brachiosaurus which separates out Giaraffititan

Other Notes

- [Content warning: NSFW subject matter] ZeFrank's bird mating dance video (puffins and blue-footed boobies)

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References

- Post-cranial pneumaticity in dinosaurs
- Feathers in basal archosaurs (or avemetarsalis at least)
- Feathers in early dinosaurs at least
- A rebuttal, implying that feathers evolved in one branch of dinosaurs but not as the common ancestor
- Mark Witton's Pterosaurs (an excellent primer on all things pterosaur)
- Original description of Deinosuchus hatcheri
- Mark Witton on deinosuchus, including an excellent painting
- Mark Witton on azhdarchid terrestrial stalking
- Mark Witton's feathered ceratopsians
- Want to see some wacky bird mating dances? Why don't you watch the Birds of Paradise
- Quetzalcoatulus as a demonic, toothy monster
- Mark Witton is exasperated about the concept of pterosaurs skim feeding

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References

- Discussion on moving the formal definition of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary
- Evolution of dinosaurs as filling niches left by pseudosuchians
- Marsh's description of triceratops
- Sereno's updated description of Eoraptor
- Manicouagan crater
- How did triceratops walk with its front legs?
- Ceratopsian tracks
- T. horridus as ancestor of T. prorsus

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