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Order up! {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10163 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10163” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/04/24/one-articulated-sauroposeidon-to-go-hold-the-perspective-distortion-with-a-side-of-stinkin-mammal/sauroposeidon-omnh-53062-articulated-right-lateral-composite-with-giraffe/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/sauroposeidon-omnh-53062-articulated-right-lateral-composite-with-giraffe.jpg”

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Recently I had the opportunity to give a talk on photographing specimens and preparing illustrations in Jim Parham’s phylogenetics course at Cal State Fullerton. Jim is having each student (1) write a description of a specimen, (2) run a phylogenetic analysis, and (3) do some kind of calibration on their tree. I think that’s rad.

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Many thanks to everyone who played pin-the-skull-on-the-carnivore. The answers are down at the bottom of this post, so if you’ve just arrived here and want to take the challenge, go here before you scroll down. To fill up some space, let me point out how crazy variable the skulls of black bears, Ursus americanus , are.