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@journal_evo @JohnRHutchinson There's a lot of missing anatomy in the hips of dinosaurs: squishy hyaline cartilage, tough fibrocartilages, ligaments etc. Not to mention different bony structures. Henry shows us how these two lineages of dinos used different proportions of these tissues to get huge.
@arvalis @bone_sharpe @JoschuaKnuppe @MesozoicMuse @OliverDemuth @Prehistorica_CM @Midiaou7 @MarkWitton @VilleSinkkonen RJ, please share some particular examples of Brian's work that you consider make his work 'probably more fiction than science'. Here are two examples. Without invoking Bell et al, skin paper, (a singleton, problematic paper in the field), what which parts are fiction?
@Yara_Haridy @Tweetisaurus @NHMdinolab @NHM_London Hmmm. something to chew on...
See you at @BroadwayBrewPub Monday Night! Besides being bitey, crocs have cool adaptations for heating up as well. https://t.co/qYsIa2hE3T
@Sternarchella Spamming feathered Tyrannosaur art from here on out.
Congrats to Alec Wilken for seeing this monster of a paper through to @J_Exp_Biol. How do joints and muscles mediate cranial kinesis and torsion in the skull of a varanid lizard?https://t.co/uV3gdDm0Yf @mizzouanatomy @mizzou @NSF_BIO @MizzouNews @MizzouBiology @ugradresearchMU
@BrianEngh_Art does a great job pulling together a comparative anatomy and paleobiology to make his media. You can see how he uses this panel of archosaur vascular goodness. https://t.co/RBcJ46ntlF
I feel good! It took a lot of work and time. But like a good scotch, these kinds of projects sometimes benefit from age and rest. In the ~14 yrs it took, @Tool put out 2 albums, and I had 2 kids! Thanks to @WitmerLab, @NSF_BIO, @AnatomyMizzou, @anatomyjournal and many others!
I had noticed the work of @BrianEngh_Art and we decided to make a piece of art with sympatric crocs, dinos and birds to better convey our findings. We opted for the Aguja Fm of @TexasVertPaleo via thermal imaging. Wicked AF isn't it? He'll tell you all about it!
Concurrently, I was describing the anatomy of fossil crocs and dinosaurs. I struggled with illustrating and finally gave up stippling braincases like I used to and opted for a tracing and shading motif instead. Photos + illustrations are our primary expose of anatomy data.