#sauropodsaturday — Public Fediverse posts

"All good ships have appropriate names. Our ship was christened Diplodocus, with a picture of the beast painted on the side for our talisman - also as a lure for dinosaurs under the ground."

So wrote Barnum Brown in 1935, opening an article about using an airplane to survey the western USA for fossils.

I have mixed feelings about these old articles from the history of paleontology, but here it is:
https://archive.org/details/naturalhistory3615newy/page/94/mode/2up?q=Diplodocus

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@futurebird @RationalizedInsanity
I could find the will write
about Abydosaurus
how it lived its life
the tall trees it stripped bare
and how it died
buried in rock
for a hundred million years
while the green river carved a canyon near
but all the million forams?
that I can't bear
and each annoying conodont?
no
I won't

#poetry
#forams
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sauropod factoid: among english letters, U and W are tied for the fewest sauropods beginning with the letter: only Uberabatitan and Udelartitan begin with U (sadly I must set aside both Ultrasaurus and Ultrasauros), and only Wintonotitan and Wamweracaudia begin with W. Xenoposeidon, Xingjangtitan, and Xianshanosaurus begin with X, and all other english letters have at least 4 genera. A sauropod themed alphabet book would have plenty of choices.

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A slightly late #FossilFriday and early #SauropodSaturday

A better look at the Nottingham Natural History Museum's 3D-printed skull of Dippy the Diplodocus.

The #NottNatHit museum was one several museums to receive a replica skull like this as part of the 'Real World Science' network. More about that here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/national-impact/real-world-science.html

Note how, in addition to the bone, the replica includes the metal armature at the back of the skull.

@fossilfriday #dinosaur #Dippy #Diplodocus #3Dprint

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