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October 2026

  1. Worth a try: thank your dog for barking
  2. A truly radical take on scholarly publication and peer review
  3. Trying to categorize SV-POW! posts
  4. No AI comments. None. No exceptions.
  5. Friday’s impromptu tortoise rescue
  6. Easty the box turtle: both osteophagous and coprophagous
  7. BYU’s fossil vending machine
  8. Speculative sauropods
  9. SV-POW! at 19, and trying to see what’s not there

September 2026

  1. (When) will we find apatosaurines outside of North America?

August 2026

  1. The atlas/axis complex of Apatosaurus louisae CM 3018 in dorsal and lateral views
  2. Horrible Megalosaurus larva tears its way out of Matt’s stomach
  3. Documenting Skeletal Mounts

July 2026

  1. Current status
  2. A gentle rebuke, well taken
  3. Wildlife on the Planet Furaha by Gert van Dijk
  4. Andy Frazer’s Aquilops, and DinoCon 2026

June 2026

  1. Dogs are experiments in applied genetics
  2. My adventures with Tri-bear-atops
  3. Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

May 2026

  1. Revisiting Aquilops and Pentaceratops at the Sam Noble Museum
  2. Where did the One of our Dinosaurs is Missing dinosaur come from?
  3. Curiousiday at the Sam Noble Museum: Sauroposeidon, Apatosaurus, Aquilops, and more
  4. The “Bizarre Headgear” exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum is incredible
  5. The mystery of the other rearing sauropod of the Egidio Feruglio museum
  6. Looking for CC By photos of these rearing sauropod mounts
  7. An even earlier life restoration of a sauropod (1885)
  8. The Lego Natural History Museum, and the question of scale

April 2026

  1. Upcoming public talks about dinosaurs at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
  2. On the evolution of the atlas-axis complex
  3. In search of rearing mounted sauropod skeletons
  4. The Nazi sauropod — Giraffatitan (= “Brachiosaurus“) brancai in 1937

February 2026

  1. The checklist for new zoological genus and species names is published
  2. Checklist for new zoological genus and species names
  3. What was the first life restoration of a sauropod?

January 2026

  1. Belatedly … here’s DRAFT v4 of the checklist for new zoological genus and species names
  2. Never name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus
  3. Stop it, birds, your necks are stupid
  4. Yet more raptors with their heads on backwards
  5. Three Four quotes about doing good work
  6. Do it yourself.

December 2025

  1. More raptors with their heads on backwards
  2. New paper: Hart et al. 2025 on neural canal ridges in crocs
  3. SV-POW! is an AI-free zone
  4. Book Week 2025, Day 8: Jurassic West, 2nd edition, by John Foster
  5. Book Week 2025, Day 7: Three favorites by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
  6. Book Week 2025, Day 6: The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling, by John Muir Laws
  7. Book Week 2025, Day 5: The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, by Riley Black

November 2025

  1. Book Week 2025, Day 4: Otherlands, by Thomas Halliday
  2. Book Week 2025, Day 3: Dungeon delvers delight in Dr Dhrohlin’s Dictionary of Dinosaurs
  3. Book Week 2025, Day 2: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Steve Brusatte
  4. Book Week 2025, Day 1: Speed Thief Vol 1, by Sean Hennessy
  5. Tutorial 48: my museum collections kit
  6. How — and where — should we measure neural canal diameter?
  7. More on that “Ultrasaurus” scap photo
  8. What LLMs are really saving you from

October 2025

  1. Colour photos of the “Ultrasaurus” quarry
  2. Yet more lying necks: Backwards Birds edition
  3. Video of the 2024 SSP debate: “The open access movement has failed”
  4. If you’d built a “tool” that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?
  5. New paper: pneumatic diverticula and blood vessels in the neural canals of the toothed birds Ichthyornis and Janavis
  6. Necks: the lying liars that just keep lying

September 2025

  1. Get your name into the permanent scientific record!
  2. Midnight in the Museum
  3. Want to help fund the free publication of sauropod science? Now’s your chance!
  4. My first palaeo paper is 20 years old today!
  5. Alex Pritchard’s Aquilops and friends
  6. Yapping about sauropods on Dave Hone’s Terrible Lizards podcast

August 2025

  1. A PDF of Kingham (1962) on Astrodon
  2. Matt’s DinoCon 2025 adventure
  3. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence; it just isn’t proof
  4. WARNING: Science In Progress!
  5. The very first #DinoConUK!
  6. Sauropod dinosaur body plan for DinoCon 2025
  7. “Rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors”
  8. Talk slides are not fungible
  9. Andy Farke and Matt Wedel geek out over Jurassic World Rebirth
  10. DinoCon 2025 is next week
  11. Lay research on turtles, and the evolution of scholarly journals
  12. Journal articles are trying to do six things at once — no wonder they’re unreadable

July 2025

  1. Review: Dougal Dixon’s The New Dinosaurs, 2025 edition
  2. Things: The Surprising Power of Stuff That Exists
  3. Did journal articles survive the last ten years?
  4. This Saturday is Aquilops Day!
  5. I say, I say, I say! How many palaeontologists does it take to write a paper? Twenty-four (if it’s in Nature)!
  6. Nuchal sesamoids in shrews
  7. The Dread Olecranon of Kentrosaurus
  8. Semi-spoileriffic first thoughts on Jurassic World Rebirth
  9. Baffled by diplodocoids? Need a comprehensive introduction? You’re in luck!

June 2025

  1. Tutorial 47: distinguishing white and gray rami communicantes in dissection
  2. Super-brief, content-free Aquilops update
  3. Come hear Matt and Mike at Darren’s DinoCon!
  4. a-QUILL-ops, birthday, Lego sets, etc.

May 2025

  1. Aquilops-ing intensifies
  2. Whatever happened to the Munich Diplodocus?
  3. Everything you always wanted to know about the Carnegie Diplodocus (but were afraid to ask)
  4. Being an anatomist probably made me a better person
  5. From 1 July, no embargoes on NIH-funded publications!

April 2025

  1. Eleanor reacts to the dire wolves
  2. The Royal Society is dead

March 2025

  1. 5th Palaeontological Virtual Congress: a bony lesion in an apatosaur femur
  2. 5th Palaeontological Virtual Congress: Neural canal ridges in crocs
  3. The Aquilops toy news will continue until morale improves

February 2025

  1. I’m stoked for Aquilops in Jurassic World Rebirth
  2. Burn it all down
  3. If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well
  4. Dear Royal Society: please stop lending legitimacy to Elon Musk
  5. New paper: review of the supernumerary muscles of the human leg and foot

January 2025

  1. New paper out today: Boisvert et al. (2025) on all the Haplos
  2. A great paper: Scott et al. (2015) on a traumatically amputated timber wolf femur
  3. A unique sauropod mount: Haplocanthosaurus delfsi CMNH 10380
  4. My Constant Reader, and staying close to the work

December 2024

  1. About that Saurophaganax paper
  2. Interesting paper alert: Harris (2024) on nuchal ligaments

November 2024

  1. What’s up with your perforated parapophyseal ramus, Apatosaurinae indet. BYU 20178? — Featuring: What have we learned?
  2. Behold! The glory of the Lego Giraffatitan
  3. Move over, All Yesterdays: It’s time for #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt, redux!
  4. Tutorial 46: how to write an abstract
  5. Tutorial 45: how to decide whether to do a higher degree in palaeontology
  6. The fate (so far) of my 50 submitted papers
  7. My favorite piece of paleoart is now for sale

October 2024

  1. To what extent is science a strong-link problem?
  2. The pneumatic rib evolution figure in a more useful format
  3. Five questions from Tom Redd
  4. About that Saurophaganax abstract
  5. More “artificial intelligence” idiocy
  6. Things to Make and Do, part 32: chicken wing claw

September 2024

  1. If I could dissect a sauropod…
  2. I won a thing! From someone I admire!
  3. We’re not going to run out of new anatomy anytime soon
  4. Neural canal ridges: the director’s cut

August 2024

  1. New paper: Atterholt et al. (2024) on neural canal ridges in dinosaurs
  2. Brian Engh’s free public paleoart lectures next week!
  3. Tutorial 44: how to avoid using a preoccupied name for your new genus
  4. More on PalArch: it’s dead

July 2024

  1. PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology has been hijacked
  2. DOIs and an ISSN for SV-POW!
  3. Five million hits!

June 2024

  1. All the SV-POW! videos, and other stuff on the sidebar
  2. New video: did air-filled bones allow dinosaurs to become gigantic?
  3. Fossil Friday grab-bag: bird diverticula, Oklahoma dinos, Tate trip pics, and more
  4. New paper out today on the Dry Mesa Haplocanthosaurus
  5. Fossils of Jimbo the Supersaurus on exhibit
  6. Quick pix of ‘Jimbo’, the Wyoming Supersaurus
  7. The sauropod heresies: my Tate 2024 ‘abstract’ and handout
  8. SSP debate, part 2: Jessica Polka opposing “the open access movement has failed”
  9. Tate 2024 road update
  10. The SSP debate on “the open access movement has failed” — part 1: speech for the motion
  11. National Dinosaur Day, redux
  12. It’s National Dinosaur Day

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