Living the Sci Life
The Life & Times of Ryan J. Haupt.
Gentleman scientist, paleodetective and future time-traveler.
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Photo reblogged from Scientific Illustration
A Therizinosaurus defending itself from an attacking Tyrannosaurus bataar, by Juan de Santiago
Therizinosaurus was actually a freaky theropod. No one knows why they had such strange claws, or why they were so freakishly huge, or what they ate, or how they ate, or how they coped with their depressingly negative body image… What odd balls.
No one knows? I call shenanigans. (I mean sure, no one really KNOWS anything in paleontology, but that’s not the point.) The point is this guy probably ate up some plants, used it’s claws to pull delicious branches into reach just like giant sloths. So yeah, it’s odd, but it’s about as odd as giant sloths, so at least it’s in good company.
Also, this drawing is awesome. No offense intended in my critique of the accompanying text. :-D
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Photoset reblogged from Scientific Illustration
The cover of one of my college textbooks. How many dinosaurs can you identify? (No cheating!)
i got… 21 haha
19, I need to brush up on my stegosaurs and hadrosaurs. There were only a few I was really kicking myself over missing.
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Photoset reblogged from Scientific Illustration
The top image is a much improved version of the “hang in there” poster.
This may be speculative.
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Photo reblogged from I Love Charts
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The sitting President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Phil Currie brews beer. Why did I not know this?!
