tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post1246780599749156326..comments2023-10-29T06:50:22.166-04:00Comments on Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: Dinosaurs: In Your Face! - reviewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-55916148881767796662012-10-02T13:41:13.932-04:002012-10-02T13:41:13.932-04:00Sam Rockwell's face...ON A CHILD.Sam Rockwell's face...ON A CHILD.Marc Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894846069567096349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-37429458688907519092012-10-02T12:26:50.459-04:002012-10-02T12:26:50.459-04:00Good heavens, that's uncanny. Pun unintended.Good heavens, that's uncanny. Pun unintended.Nateehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15869685234493116483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-21974330992596067232012-10-02T11:59:38.659-04:002012-10-02T11:59:38.659-04:00"that face" kinda looks like Sam Rockwel..."that face" kinda looks like Sam Rockwell to me...<br />http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hUu42MZRiGk/Smkb4APZkoI/AAAAAAAAA84/PbITtv_0QUw/s320/rockwell.jpgtnthielenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987561678868753828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-66927671575929560352012-10-01T08:07:51.531-04:002012-10-01T08:07:51.531-04:00I'm happy that you're a Rey fan - I am too...I'm happy that you're a Rey fan - I am too, but he seems to have a lot of detractors.<br /><br />Alas, I don't have the Dinosaurs! 3D glasses myself anymore. However, they won't quite work here anyway, as the pictures are red/blue rather than red/green. That said, if you DO happen to have a pair of red/blue glasses from another source, the scans above will provide a nice little preview of the book! (The Spinosaurus is one of the best.)Marc Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894846069567096349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-21284527796823165562012-10-01T06:20:08.876-04:002012-10-01T06:20:08.876-04:00That remark may just have been a little mischief o...That remark may just have been a little mischief on my part. ;)Marc Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894846069567096349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-66690933803980919762012-10-01T01:14:51.106-04:002012-10-01T01:14:51.106-04:00'Some people might take issue with his declara...'Some people might take issue with his declaration that "modern-day birds are descendants of raptors", but it's perhaps worth considering that he could mean maniraptors as a whole as opposed to just dromaeosaurs.'<br /><br />Except birds are maniraptors. BY DEFINITION. I mean, I guess the statement's still true, but it's like saying humans are descendants of primates.<br /><br />'Fellow Brits will also find the pronunciation guides rather amusing'<br /><br />I can assure you this sentiment goes both ways. Phrasebooks in general have a bias toward nonrhotic UK accents, and are constantly telling us there are "R"s where there clearly are none.Mike Keeseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147156174467903264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-64559028683079383832012-09-30T21:02:26.117-04:002012-09-30T21:02:26.117-04:00I've got a lot to say about this post.
"...I've got a lot to say about this post.<br /><br />"No doubt this is justified on the grounds that, hey, it's for kids, yeah? So, who cares?"<br /><br />There's a funny joke about ppl using that logic at 9:00 of this link's video (which I now refer to whenever anyone uses that logic): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njSEqYY9opE<br /><br />"Although a lot of people aren't so fond of Luis Rey's style, he could never be accused of not doing his homework; in short, he knows his anatomy, and this is high-quality stuff."<br /><br />That's 1 of my favorite aspects of Rey's art (besides the dynamism): The attention to anatomical detail.<br /><br />"As for the text - well, it's Bakker, so you probably already know what to expect."<br /><br />Yeah, awesomeness! :)<br /><br />"and he indulges in some plausible speculation that isn't signposted as such (see above),"<br /><br />That's a good example of what I like about Bakker (among other things): He knows A LOT about living animals (more so than most paleontologists). I've only seen 1 other paleontologist compare theropod sails to lizard sails (See the Naish quote).<br /><br />"Some people might take issue with his declaration that "modern-day birds are descendants of raptors", but it's perhaps worth considering that he could mean maniraptors as a whole as opposed to just dromaeosaurs."<br /><br />That's probably the case, given that, in his blog posts, he usually refers to the ancestors of birds as "raptor-type" or "raptor-like" dinos (E.g. http://blog.hmns.org/tag/archosaurs/ )<br /><br />"Even if you're a grown-up dinosaur fan with a healthy appreciation of lovely, vibrant palaeoart and good old-fashioned bi-colour 3D glasses with a scaly pattern printed on them, you're bound to have fun with this book."<br /><br />I actually have all 3 of the non-3D books that make up this 1.<br /><br />BTW, in reference to the 3D glasses, I still have the pair I got w/Dinosaurs! magazine.<br /><br />"Actually, I'm tempted to turn it into a Halloween mask. What do you think?"<br /><br />What I'm wondering (besides who the heck they got to pose for that pic) is what dromaeosaurid genus that is behind the kid? I'd guess Deinonychus or Velociraptor, but I'm not at all sure.<br /><br />Quoting Naish ( http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/09/09/concavenator-incredible-allosauroid/ ): "I have one more thing to say: what were the tall neural spines for? Ortega et al. (2010) conclude that we just can’t say, though they note that thermoregulatory, display or energy storage functions have all been suggested. I tend to prefer the display option, but only by analogy with the extant tall-spined reptiles that everyone seems to ignore whenever they talk about tall neural spines. Sure, maybe these structures were partially buried in fat or muscle, but the implication from some that they simply must have been like this, and that the existence of ‘dorsal sails’ is a total no-no (Bailey 1997) ignores the fact that all tetrapods aren’t mammals. There are living reptiles with dorsal sails: I really must get photos of sail-backed chameleon neural spines some time [adjacent photo shows body of Meller's chameleon Chamaeleo melleri - best I can do at short notice. Photo by Adrian Pingstone, from wikipedia]."Hadiazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10805346627826158173noreply@blogger.com