tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post8767364894191496133..comments2023-10-29T06:50:22.166-04:00Comments on Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs: Vintage Dinosaur Art: Dinosaurs! The 1987 Childcraft Annual - Part 3Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-30214834498548549082015-09-09T01:32:21.067-04:002015-09-09T01:32:21.067-04:00I have read it. Very interesting. I'd recommen...I have read it. Very interesting. I'd recommend anyone to have a look.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12800504889759879080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-63261449119484755642015-09-08T14:34:04.874-04:002015-09-08T14:34:04.874-04:00Victoria (see comments above) is actually responsi...Victoria (see comments above) is actually responsible for that article! If you didn't read it directly from her, she published the original study which you can read about on her blog.<br />http://pseudoplocephalus.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-ankylosaur-got-its-tail-club.htmlAndrew Raymond Stückhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12080621275951453768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-75498798168122169222015-09-08T14:34:03.615-04:002015-09-08T14:34:03.615-04:00Those ankylosaurs! I still can't quite get ove...Those ankylosaurs! I still can't quite get over how often they were presented as... I hesitate to say 'shapeless'... but, like a generic spiky egg on extraordinarily fat lizard-legs, or a tortoise with a tail club, going all the way back to ye olde Palaeoscincus, Scolosaurus and Zallinger depictions; with the actual coffee-table-with-spikes (and, y'know, an actual skeletal structure) only making headway relatively recently. (I tell ya, I almost fell off my seat when I saw that Pinacosaurus' sides actually stuck out like that, contrary to just about every depiction I'd seen 'til then) Or am I being unfair to poor beleaguered paleoartists and -illustrators, and the resources available to them over the decades? I mean, surely someone noticed how far those ribs bowed out...?Warren JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11743987856127631574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-58736238064583212172015-09-08T06:02:44.937-04:002015-09-08T06:02:44.937-04:00Could it be Greg Paul is evolving ove rthe course ...Could it be Greg Paul is evolving ove rthe course of the book? I know it's a weird notion given the order of pictures in these posts is probably coincidence, but the Apatosaurus was not nearly as Paulian as this week's critters are. The edges are sharper, the lines are straighter, the theropods look like steamroller victims - this is unmistakenably Paul while the Apato seems to me just almost Paul as we know him, but not quite as distinct.Thomas Diehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05062076693215115940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-50126294800715293082015-09-08T01:27:18.103-04:002015-09-08T01:27:18.103-04:00Thanks, Victoria!Thanks, Victoria!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12800504889759879080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-20532942524510969312015-09-07T22:46:01.000-04:002015-09-07T22:46:01.000-04:00HMM I WONDER IF ANYONE HAS DONE SUCH A STUDY:
htt...HMM I WONDER IF ANYONE HAS DONE SUCH A STUDY:<br /><br />http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006738<br /><br />http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.20987/pdf<br /><br /><br />;)Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773365014990396396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-40055896445064365182015-09-07T22:04:11.665-04:002015-09-07T22:04:11.665-04:00Yesterday I read an article about Anky tails. Only...Yesterday I read an article about Anky tails. Only the earliest in the group had entirely flexible tails. Later species had most of the tail stiffened by overlapping vertebrae. Those with clubbed tails all had straight tails supporting them, with just the front few tail vertebrae doing the swinging work.<br />All those old pix of ankys with wild curving tails sprang to mind. I got sad for those artists.JHIIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08488636180849544534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-64941505345012207212015-09-07T21:45:15.424-04:002015-09-07T21:45:15.424-04:00I agree the Monoclonius scene is lovely and presen...I agree the Monoclonius scene is lovely and presents a situation not often illustrated - a tyrannosaur being sent off without gorey battle. In generals carnivores will not attack if there is a risk of injury. An authentic touch.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12800504889759879080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-34939269244179693092015-09-07T21:41:37.180-04:002015-09-07T21:41:37.180-04:00Yes, I was thinking that too. I wonder if anyone h...Yes, I was thinking that too. I wonder if anyone has really done a thorough study of ankylosaurs' defensive techniques. It strikes me that they don't seem to be able to turn their heads far enough to observe a predator behind them and swing their clubs purposefully. And even if they could the tail in most seems too short to deliver a blow to anything higher than the ankles.The hunkering down approach doesn't seem feasible either. Wouldn't a tyrannosaur just flip them and rip the belly open?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12800504889759879080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107291904794625632.post-52268646620674808352015-09-07T17:06:35.360-04:002015-09-07T17:06:35.360-04:00Oh dear, whatever has happened to the forehead of ...Oh dear, whatever has happened to the forehead of that Ankylosaurus! That is weird. Also, I like how people like to show ankylosaurs just lying down when faced with imminent doom. He's all like "that's cool man, I think I'll just take a nap over here don't mind me".Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09773365014990396396noreply@blogger.com