The fearsome pink thunder lizard that guards my brother’s front porch. Apparently, it was guarding the snow pile until that melted. I would have thought that snow would cause mass extinction, thunder lizards being ectothermic and all, but I have very little experience with prehistoric megafauna. Then again, if they had feathers and were endothermic, they could have been quite cozy. I believe this calls for More Science.

#brontosaurus #apatosaurus #photography

This review marks my 100th review for the Dinosaur Toy Blog and with having reached this milestone I think I need to reflect a bit. My first review was posted on July 16th, 2011. That’s just over 5 years of collecting and writing about dinosaur toys. Although others have reached this milestone in an impressively short amount of time that makes this no less significant for me. I’ve actually […]

Happy hatchday, @kai-ae.bsky.social ! If the #baryonyx giga tube isn’t enough, there’s always the drysuit…

#inflatable #apatosaurus #dinosaur #furryart #wip

Review by Paleo Flo, edited by DinoToyBlog.

When it comes to dinosaur figures and models we are actually living in some kind of wonderland. There are so many companies which all produce wonderful offerings of the animals from deep time. As a dinosaur enthusiast you have the trouble of choosing. In recent years two companies became the greatest players in this game: PNSO and Haolonggood. While […]

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Apatosaurus.

Apatosaurus was originally found by Arthur Lakes and Henry C Beckwith in spring 1877, in Morrison. They contacted Othniel Charles Marsh, and after sending him some of the fossils, he named the species Apatosaurus.

Two years later March discovered a larger, more complete specimen and called it Brontosaurus. This was later synonymized to Apatosaurus.

Its still debated if Brontosaurus is its own species or just Apatosaurus.

Prehistoric Tube B (CollectA)

Time again to downsize with CollectA’s second tube collection. Like the previous set I reviewed, this one came out in late 2015 and contains no fewer than ten teeny toy dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters, a couple of them making their debut with CollectA.

First up is a bantam Amargasaurus, based on the Deluxe version. Measuring slightly over 7 cm long, it’s light green with maroon […]

Read more... https://dinotoyblog.com/prehistoric-tube-b-collecta/

#amargasaurus #ankylosaurus #apatosaurus #brachiosaurus #giganotosaurus #liopleurodon #quetzalcoatlus #spinosaurus #torosaurus #velociraptor

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

An adult Brontosaurus rearing up to reach high vegetation, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Brontosaurus #Apatosaurus #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt #FossilFriday

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A 2023 illustration of the growth rate of Apatosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorpoQzM-Ovm9VJ-kQ3jSl60ruPWRNrwcegG3fmvTOFQonrHkldS

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Apatosaurus #Brontosaurus #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt

Open access article, and the "non-technical summary" section near the beginning gives an overview everyone can understand. 🧪🦖

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/troodontid-specimens-from-the-cretaceous-two-medicine-formation-of-montana-usa-and-the-validity-of-troodon-formosus/3E58F1FDA3FE53DE569E0D0B20E79F22

Very short version: #Troodon was considered a valid #genus for well over a century, until it was merged with #Stenonychosaurus about a decade ago, and due to specimen quality Stenonychosaurus took priority. Now careful examination indicates Troodon is a valid genus again.

This process is familiar from other famous #dinosaur genera, most notably #Brontosaurus and #Apatosaurus. Even *living* animals are hard to classify a lot of the time; nothing between #kingdom and #species is really set in stone. The tension between "#lumpers" and "#splitters" never ends.

Troodon is special. Maybe it was intelligent, in a way we'd recognize as such, and maybe it wasn't. But it was almost surely *smart*, and quite possibly social, and likely an omnivore. Does that remind you of anyone?

Maybe I'm fooling myself, when I feel a kinship across deep time. And maybe I'm not.