006 - Early Paleontology and Wastebasket Taxa (Megalosaurus and Hylaeosaurus)
ReferencesMegalosaurus as a valid speciesList of previously-held Megalosaurus speciesRichard Owen describes Dinosauria (starting on page 102)Other LinksThe illustration of “Scrotum humanum”Get In Touc...
14 Mar 202036min
005 - Dinosaur Names (Yi and Stegoceras)
ReferencesHone and Naish on the idea that dinosaurs evolved complicated frills or display structures to aid in species recognitionPeterson et al. on evidence for pachycephalosaurid head-butting behavi...
28 Feb 202034min
004 - Dinosaur Renaissance (Iguanodon and Archaeopteryx)
References John Ostrom on the origin of flightJohn Ostrom on Deinonychus, a very bird-like theropodDinosaur supertreeRobert Bakker et al on dinosaur monophyly (i.e. all dinosaurs share a common ancest...
14 Feb 202040min
003 - Dinosaur Hips (Brachiosaurus and Yutyrannus)
References - Paul Sereno's landmark 1999 paper on the evolution of dinosaurs - The new paper by Baron et al that's changing things up - Xu Xing et al describing Yutyrannus - How did sauropods get so ...
1 Feb 202036min
002 - Archosaurs (Quetzalcoatlus and Deinosuchus)
References - Post-cranial pneumaticity in dinosaurs - Feathers in basal archosaurs (or avemetarsalis at least) - Feathers in early dinosaurs at least - A rebuttal, implying that feathers evolved in o...
31 Jan 202034min
001 - The Mesozoic (Eoraptor and Triceratops)
References - Discussion on moving the formal definition of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary - Evolution of dinosaurs as filling niches left by pseudosuchians - Marsh's description of triceratops - Se...
30 Jan 202051min
