Comments on: Dinosaur Finger Points to Bird Evolution

By: Tracks of Giants Created Dino Death Traps | Dinosaur Tracking

Tracks of Giants Created Dino Death Traps | Dinosaur Tracking — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:23:40 +0000

[...] have been recovered from them. Guanlong, an early cousin of Tyrannosaurus, and the bizarre theropod Limusaurus were both described from the pile of skeletons contained within the footprints. Chances are that [...]

By: Why We Need Another Paleontology Book -- Announcing Brian Switek's Written in Stone | Dinosaur Tracking

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:06:41 +0000

[...] the spread of this synthetic approach. Last June paleontologists published a description of Limusaurus, a strange theropod dinosaur that may help explain a developmental shift in how the hands of [...]

By: Alexander Vargas

Alexander Vargas — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:51:06 +0000

Vargas, AO, Wagner GP, and Gauthier, JA. Limusaurus and bird digit identity. hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3828.1

Here is our response to the Limusaurus paper. It was recently rejected by nature, not for any technical reason but because it was considered not to be of sufficient interest/importance.

We have uploaded it at the nature precedings citable archive, because we think it is important there is a quick and citable reply that unlike Xu’s proposal, is consistent with the view of the larger community of theropod paleontologists, namely, that tetanuran digits still are I, II, III. We are preparing a longer paper on this topic.

By: Georgia Elementary School Trades One Dinosaur for Another | Dinosaur Tracking

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:04:18 +0000

[...] dinosaurs for a living one. As has been said over and over again on this blog, birds are the living descendants of feathered theropod dinosaurs, and that includes eagles. A dinosaur will still be the mascot of [...]

By: Zach Miller

Zach Miller — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:10:55 +0000

I’ll have a BAND perspective up tonight!