Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
2007–2011
345 posts
2011 100
December 2011
- What everyone wants to find under the tree
- And a happy Christmas from me, too!
- The most wonderful time of the year
- Tutorial 16: giving good talks, part 4: delivery
- Now Elsevier starts a PLoS ONE clone
- Necks, I win; tails, Wedel loses –or– The SV-POW! Palaeo Paper Challenge
- Best. Exhibit. Ever.
- Best. Conference. Ever.
- Many meetings
- Hello again, old friend
- Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus maquette, Part 7: verdict
- Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus maquette, Part 6: texture and color
November 2011
- Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus maquette, Part 5: posture
- The Elephant in the Cave: Accurate vs Familiar vs Usual in Paleoart
- Tutorial 17: preparing illustrations. Part 0: colour-balancing in thirty seconds
- The mother of all holiday dinosaur posts
- Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus maquette, Part 4: body, tail, limbs, base, and skull
- Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus Maquette, Part 3: the neck
- Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus Maquette, Part 2: the head
- Sideshow Collectibles Apatosaurus Maquette, Part 1: introduction
- More Brontomerus artwork, from Highlights magazine
- Things to Make and Do, part 9b: the right to arm bears
- Things to Make and Do, part 9: bear skull, or, VIG’s first dig
- Denver Diplodocus
October 2011
- Always two there are…
- Xenoposeidon in all its glory
- “I do not see much changing.” Oh really?
- Tutorial 16: giving good talks, part 3: rehearsal
- Economics of open-access publishing
- Collateral damage of the non-open reviewing boycott
- Nature and Elsevier on peer-reviewing
- Smoking Kraken
- The gloves are off!
- Sauropod sighting
- On display this weekend: LACM’s monster alligator
- More moves towards universal open access
- New on the sidebar: human anatomy resources
- New mailing-list/forum: History of Paleontology
September 2011
- Authors versus publishers
- Researchers! Stop doing free work for non-open journals!
- Tutorial 16: giving good talks, part 2: the slides
- Tutorial 16: giving good talks, part 1: planning
- Brontomerus in magazines: preparing for the media
- Brontomerus in National Geographic
- Things to dissect and see: longus colli dorsalis
- Tutorial 15b: the bones of the theropod skeleton
- Tutorial 15: the bones of the sauropod skeleton
- Necks lie, redux
August 2011
- George Monbiot: “Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist”
- The work continues
- The most awesome piece of art EVER
- Things to Make and Do, part 7b: more fun with rhea necks
- On a lighter note…
- Time’s arrow, time’s cycle
- Notifications: Prizes past and future, sauropods on Jurassic CSI
- A lesson we don’t want to learn
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
- Darren’s new indeterminate Wealden maniraptoran is inadequate
- The world’s longest cells? Speculations on the nervous systems of sauropods
- How long was the neck of Diplodocus?
- Why the long necks? Probably not sexual selection
- Why did sauropods have such long necks?
- At last it can be told!
- What Brontomerus did on its holidays
- I am humbled. Humbled and awed
April 2011
- Prediction: Terra Nova will have dinosauroids
- The World’s Largest Dinosaurs @AMNH
- The Archbishop in cake form
- Coombs’s chimaera
- Sauropods stomping theropods, redux
March 2011
- Tutorial 13: how to dissect a neck
- Cartilage accounts for nearly a fifth of the length of the neck of a baby giraffe
- Things to Make and Do, part 8: baby giraffe neck
- Ask A Biologist — yet another new paper
- Pneumaticity article in Cosmos
- Prosauropod pneumaticity strikes back
- Sauropods stomping theropods: a much neglected theme in palaeo-art
- Friday follies: Raiders of the lost scap
- Genesis of an instant palaeo-art classic
- Reconstructing the ilium of Brontomerus
February 2011
- How weird was the ilium of Brontomerus?
- Clearing the air about Brontomerus
- Anyone have print coverage of Brontomerus?
- Please welcome Brontomerus mcintoshi
- Onward!
- I’m stupid
- Tutorial 12b: Too far may not be far enough
- Naming new animals again: no families or subgenera
- Naming new animals redux: cheat-sheet restructured
- Things to Make and Do, part 7: fun with rhea necks
- Naming new animals: towards a cheat-sheet
- Guest post: “What should everyone know about paleontology?”, by Tom Holtz
- Tutorial 12: How to find problems to work on
January 2011
2010 60
December 2010
- The “Ultrasauros” holotype vertebra
- … but red-cyan anaglyphs are cooler
- Pimp my ‘pod 2: haids
- Pimp my ‘pod
November 2010
- An open letter to Palaeontologia Electronica
- Seems that SV-POW! is only the second greatest blog in the universe
- Tutorial 10: how to become a palaeontologist
- Tutorial 9: how to get copies of academic papers
October 2010
- The Archbishop … restored!
- Who owns my sauropod history paper?
- 169 years of sauropod research in 26 pages
- Can amateurs publish in palaeontology?
- “Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus”: further thoughts
- The elephant in the living room: Amphicoelias brontodiplodocus
- ♫ This is the dawning of the age of articular cartilage ♫
- Roadside reptile rampage!
September 2010
- The Paris Camel is Just Plain Dumb
- The Oxford Camel is Just Plain Cheating
- Maybe all the camels are wrong
- The Cambridge Camel is Just Plain Wrong
- Sauropods still didn’t hold their necks in osteological neutral pose
August 2010
July 2010
- Things to Make and Do, part 6f: my dumb observation of the day is that in dorsal view, a partly-assembled ostrich skull looks kind of like a chasmosaurine
- Things to Make and Do, part 6e: gloat your eyes, feast your soul, on my ostrich ethmoid ossification
- Vertebral laminae in – shock-horror – eel-like salamanders
- Things to Make and Do, part 3c (out of order): Wallaby skull update
June 2010
- Is the new Miocene sperm whale Leviathan validly named?
- Things to Make and Do, part 6d: Veronica the ostrich skull, laid bare
- Veronica the ostrich: right cervical rib #3
- Things to Make and Do, part 6c: fragments of ostrich skull
- Things to Make and Do, part 6b: Veronica the ostrich head starts to come to pieces
- Things to Make and Do, part 6: fun with ostrich heads
- The Shunosaurus tail-club, revisited: spikes, and complex distal caudals
- I, for one, welcome our new sauropod overlords
- I only just realised … the draft Phylocode does not recognise electronic publication!
- University of California vs. Nature
- What’s the deal with your wacky tail-club, Shunosaurus?
- Notes on Early Mesozoic Theropods and the future of zoological nomenclature
May 2010
April 2010
- Ch-ch-ch-changes
- Open access — becoming increasingly inevitable
- Argentinosaurus: smaller than you think?
- Early Brachiosaurus art
- The even more enigmatic taphonomy of Sauroposeidon
March 2010
- Mamenchisaurus tail club, again
- Tornieria caudals
- Um, dude, there’s a thing on your neck
- What’s the deal with your wacky postparapophyses, Shunosaurus?
- Opening today: Snakes on a ‘Pod
February 2010
- Say hello to Abydosaurus mcintoshi
- How big was Amphicoelias fragillimus? I mean, really?
- Giant snow-sauropods of the FairbanksSapporo Ice Festival
- Tutorial 8: how to photograph big bones
- Sauropod-related travel: Utah, 2008
January 2010
2009 88
December 2009
- Things to Make and Do, part 4: brachiosaurid cervical
- Here comes Santaposeidon!
- Clash of the Dinosaurs: The Discovery Channel steps up
- Clash of the Dinosaurs: Dangerous Ltd document their own dishonest editing
- Lies, damned lies, and Clash of the Dinosaurs
- Another mystery: embossed laminae and “unfossae”
- Your cervical ribs are (probably) non-existent
November 2009
- Grilling your Thanksgiving dinosaur: live-blogging the bird
- More out than in
- CT-Scanning the Archbishop
- Sauropod-art-O-rama!
- Things to Make and Do, part 3b: Wallaby feet
- Things to Make and Do, part 3: Butchering a Wallaby
October 2009
- Finite Element Analysis of sauropod vertebrae
- Futalognkosaurus was one big-ass sauropod
- How big were the biggest sauropod trackmakers?
- Small African primate possibly sheds light on soft-tissue morphology of Cretaceous diplodocoid
- Electronic publishing is inevitable and even the ICZN is beginning to accept it
September 2009
- What I did on my holidays
- What a 23% longer torso looks like
- Not a brachiosaur, but too good to ignore
- To B.b. or not to B.b — or — So what is a “genus” anyway?
- “Brachiosaurus” brancai is not Brachiosaurus
- Ornithischian Limb-Bone Project Of The Decade
- More on Qiaowanlong already
- Bifid Brachiosaurs, Batman!
- Right, that’s it — time for the revolution
- How big was Alamosaurus?
August 2009
- Four complete, articulated, extant sauropod skeletons — yes, really!
- Mystery vert revisited – SV-POW!bucks now on the line
- Tutorial 7: the sauropod family tree
- Off-topic: Shameless cross-promotion
- How shortweird was Isisaurus?
- How tallweird was Sauroposeidon?
- Little, big: the reveal
July 2009
- Little, big
- Off-topic: Graduation Day!
- ASP target of opportunity
- NHM 46870 Strikes Back: ASP
- The hitherto hidden half of BMNH R46870
- Cetiosaurus nomenclature, redux — comments from Paul Barrett and Pete Galton
- New thunder from Down Under!
- Things to Make and Do, part 1: Pig Skull (off-topic)
June 2009
- Sauropods were corn-on-the-cob, not shish kebabs
- Sauropods were tacos, not corn dogs
- Yet more uninformed noodling on the future of scientific publishing and that kind of thing
- Blogs, papers, etc.: some more random thoughts, from Mike this time
- Blogs, papers, and the brave new digital world: Matt’s thoughts
- Blog posts, papers, and the brave new digital world: your thoughts are welcome
- What heads tell us about necks, redux
- Necks, the big picture: because there are other animals besides sauropods
- Neck posture, yet again: T. rex‘s neck is pathetic
- Unstated precision and undemonstrated accuracy: two more reasons why we don’t trust DinoMorph
- Choosing a journal for the neck-posture paper: why open access is important
May 2009
- Necks lie
- Range of motion in intervertebral joints: why we don’t trust DinoMorph
- What heads tell us about necks
- Sauropod neck posture: the world responds
- Sauropods held their necks erect … just like rabbits
- Sauropods of 2008: Tastavinsaurus
- This just in: we are idiots
- X-Men Origins: Pneumaticity
- Hudiesaurus redux
April 2009
- OMG: MPT, PHD!
- Mydd
- Off-topic: non-open academic publishing is dead
- Sauropods of 2008: Malarguesaurus
- Mystery of the missing Malawisaurus vertebra
March 2009
- Sorting out Cetiosaurus nomenclature
- Where the hell are my superpowers?
- Behold the righteous wrath of SV-POW!
- Off-topic: Get down, get fuzzy, Tianyulong!
- Brachiosaurus: both bigger and smaller than you think
- Cetiosaurus, Pelorosaurus, Streptospondylus or maybe Iguanodon(?!) in bizarre Fused Chevrons scandal!
- The land of the free papers redux
February 2009
- SV-POW! showdown: stegosaurs vs sauropods
- The land of the free papers
- A fused atlas and axis in Apatosaurus
- Xenoposeidon week, day 8 (somewhat belatedly): those wrinkles
- A new paper, and a pneumatic hiatus at last
- Sauropods of 2008: Eomamenchisaurus
- Off-topic: say hello to Emma Naish
- Ahead by a tail
January 2009
2008 69
December 2008
- The ghost of Christmas past
- Shedloads of Awesome, part 3: Dicraeosaurus
- …just passing through…
- Airheads
- Shedloads of Awesome, part 2: Mike and Matt’s excellent adventure
November 2008
- Shedloads of Awesome, part 1: the Humboldt brachiosaur remount
- Archbishop in kid’s book scandal
- Xenoposeidon makes its kids’-book debut
- Jurassic roadkill: OMNH 4167
- Breaking news: sauropod pneumaticity on TV
- Mystery sauropod dorsals of the Wealden, part 3: BMNH R88/89 — Britain’s Best Brachiosaur (for now)
October 2008
- The Aerosteon saga, Part 3: True and false ad hominems
- SVP, our first birthday, the ghost of blogging yet to come
- Apply for Paleonturology ’08–or else!
- A year in sauropod vertebrae
- The Aerosteon saga, Part 2: Overinflation and undercitation
- The Aerosteon saga, Part 1: Introduction and background
September 2008
- Another diplodocine tail
- There’s almost nothing but nothing there, Sauroposeidon edition
- Pathological camarasaurs and carnivorous ceratopsids
- It’s Ultrasaurus… I mean, um, Ultrasauros… err, Supersaurus!
- There’s almost nothing but nothing there, Brachiosaurus edition
August 2008
- Omeisaurus is Just Plain Wrong
- SV-POW! on tour: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Bonus post: Sauroposeidon illustrated
- Tutorial 6: Air-space proportion in pneumatic sushi
- A new view of Brachiosaurus
July 2008
- Whassup with your segmented lamina, Uberabatitan ribeiroi?
- The enigmatic taphonomy of Sauroposeidon
- Mike with BOBA
- Off-topic: “We’re going to need a bigger Ethics Committee”
- My neglected paddle-shaped dorsal neural spines, by Amargasaurus
June 2008
- SV-POW! showdown: sauropods vs whales vs elephants vs pterosaurs vs Mike and me
- Gilmore’s adventures with diplodocine caudals
- SuperCroc’s sidekick
- Wing-like transverse processes, pneumatic caudals and all that…
- The Astonishing Case of HMN SII:D8, part 3: Perforate Anterior Centroparapophyseal Laminae!
May 2008
- The Astonishing Case of HMN SII:D8, part 2: The Missing Infradiapophyseal Lamina!
- The Astonishing Case of HMN SII:D8, part 1: Spinoparapophyseal Laminae!
- SV-POW! showdown: sauropods vs whales
- Sauropod pneumaticity, the early years
- Hottt news
- Seriously. Apatosaurus is just nuts.
- Supersaurus — a diplodocid that lives up to its name
- Getting a look at Supersaurus
April 2008
- Look ma, no ventral bracing!
- Pleurocoelus: the birth of excellence
- One vert to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
- Off-topic: The Variety of Life
- Your coccyx is contemptible
- Aegyptosaurus lost
March 2008
- Invading the postzyg
- Your sacrum is negligible
- Were the biggest sauropods the most pneumatic?
- The heart of the matter
- Sauropod Nano
February 2008
- That’s gotta be one of the widest neck-bases in history
- Your torso is also pretty lame
- A new view of sauropod vertebrae
- Michaelangelo’s weapon of choice or exceeding 344 m/s by way of a flagellicaudatan appendage
- Your neck is pathetic
January 2008
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December 2007
- … and a Happy New Year (lamest type specimen ever?)
- Merry Christmas from SV-POW!
- Nearly complete Brachiosaurus brancai tail
- World first: a peek inside ‘Angloposeidon’
- Apatosaurus, Russian doll edition
November 2007
- Well, not Xenoposeidon, anyway
- Xenoposeidon week, day 7: school’s out
- Xenoposeidon week, day 6: so what is a “family” anyway?
- Xenoposeidon week, day 5: the quest for glory
- Xenoposeidon week, day 4: the question everyone is asking … how big was it?
- Xenoposeidon week, day 3: the basic beast inside
- Xenoposeidon week, day 2: imagining the whole thing
- Xenoposeidon week, day 1-and-a-half: the media
- Xenoposeidon week, day 1: Introducing Xeno
- The sacral and the profane
- Tutorial 4: Laminae!
- Tutorial 3: Pneumaticity
October 2007
- Mystery sauropod dorsals of the Wealden, part 2: BMNH R90a
- Mysterious, never-yet-outed titanosaur caudals
- Three big dorks
- The promised land
- Brachiosaurus altithorax, last four dorsals
- Skyward!
- Tutorial 2: Basic vertebral anatomy
- Mystery sauropod dorsals of the Wealden, part 1: BMNH R2523
- The wonder that is MIWG.7306
- Tutorial 1: Regions of the vertebral column
- Hello world!