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In the comments on Matt’s post about the giant new Argentine titanosaur specimens, Ian Corfe wondered why Benson et al. (2014) estimated the circumference of the humerus of Brachiosaurus altithorax instead of just measuring it. (Aside: I can’t find that data in their paper.

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Actually we had the Jurassic talks today, but I can’t show you any of the slides*, so instead you’re getting some brief, sauropod-centric highlighs from the museum. * I had originally written that the technical content of the talks is embargoed, but that’s not true–as ReBecca Hunt-Foster pointed out in a comment, the conference guidebook with all of the abstracts is freely available online here.

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Aitor Ederra drew my attention to this painting by Frederik Spindler: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10055 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10055” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/03/27/frederik-spindlers-wooly-brachiosaur/86e63b799a/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/86e63b799a.jpg” orig-size=“722,542” comments-opened=“1”

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Although it would be nice to think that our site views have octupled in the last day because of Mike’s fine and funny posts about what search terms bring people to SV-POW!, the real reason is that we were blessed by incoming links from both pages of this Cracked.com article.

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