Earth and related Environmental SciencesWordPress.com

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

SV-POW! ... All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access. ISSN 3033-3695
Home PageAtom FeedISSN 3033-3695
language
Published

A few weeks ago, we were considering the bizarre Umbaran Starfighter from The Clone Wars , and its extraordinary similarity to an Apatosaurus cervical: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7368 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7368” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/01/04/umbaran-starfighter-update/1322344262m_splash/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/1322344262m_splash.jpeg” orig-size=“500,355”

Published

Just sayin’: vs. (From here.) Update The rest of the Umbaran Starfighter Saga: Was the Umbaran Starfighter from Clone Wars inspired by an Apatosaurus vertebra? (Dec. 13, 2012) Heck, yes, the Umbaran Starfighter from Clone Wars was inspired by an Apatosaurus vertebra (Dec. 15, 2012) Umbaran Starfighter update (Jan.

Published

Yesterday, Matt showed you this starship from the Star Wars universe: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7306 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7306” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/12/13/was-the-umbaran-starfighter-from-clone-wars-inspired-by-an-apatosaurus-vertebra/umbaranstarfighter-swe/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/umbaranstarfighter-swe.png” orig-size=“462,482” comments-opened=“1”

Published
Author Matt Wedel

{.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7306 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7306” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/12/13/was-the-umbaran-starfighter-from-clone-wars-inspired-by-an-apatosaurus-vertebra/umbaranstarfighter-swe/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/umbaranstarfighter-swe.png” orig-size=“462,482” comments-opened=“1”

Published

Another blast from the past: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-6988 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“6988” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/10/18/2000-ads-flagrantly-plagiarised-brontosaurus/2000ad-prog-10-back-cover-flesh-card-game-brontosaur/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/2000ad-prog-10-back-cover-flesh-card-game-brontosaur.jpeg” orig-size=“522,344” comments-opened=“1”

Published
Author Matt Wedel

{.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-6735 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“6735” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/09/08/amnh-mounted-apatosaurus-with-taylor-for-scale/amnh-mounted-apatosaurus-with-taylor-for-scale/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/amnh-mounted-apatosaurus-with-taylor-for-scale.jpg” orig-size=“2272,1704” comments-opened=“1”

Published

In a comment on the previous post, Steve P. asked whether “ Apatosaurus minimus might not be a Apatosaurus specimen after all — particularly, an Apatosaurus ajax individual resembling NSMT-PV 20375, the one in the National Science Museum, Tokyo, that Upchurch et al. (2005) so lavishly monographed.

Published

This is the Brontosaurus that I grew up with: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-6588 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“6588” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/07/16/how-fat-was-brontosaurus-well-not-this-fat-anyway/shannon1960-how-and-why-wonder-brontosaurus/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/shannon1960-how-and-why-wonder-brontosaurus.jpeg” orig-size=“2152,3001” comments-opened=“1”

Published

I don’t have time to write about this properly, but a few people have asked me about the new Sellers et al. (2012) paper on measuring the masses of extinct animals — in particular, the Berlin Giraffatitan — by having a CAD program generate minimal complex hulls around various body regions.