This week I'm asking that we take a look around to see who else is blogging about dinosaurs! I have seen dozens (hundreds!) of wonderful blogs about dinosaurs, some being more technical and others being more whimsical. Still other blogs can be very technical or very personal or just plain funny or somewhat outlandish! I know of many cool blogs that are associated with college paleontology departments, with museums and with individual scientists who have lots of interesting ideas and information to share. I also know of blogs that focus just on dinosaur toys or movies or games. They all usually have something new to share.
The assignment this week is to find a blog about dinosaurs that you find interesting, amusing and/or surprising (but not wildly inappropriate for our PG-rated class!). Provide a link to it and explain why you think it is worth sharing with the rest of us. You need to tell us something about the owner of the blog. It should have a relatively recent posting (in the last year or so for sure). And let us know something you learned from the blog that relates to what we are reading about in class. However, it doesn't have to be too serious or highly educational!
To earn all the points, your blog discovery should be one that no one else has yet posted about. There are many dinosaur-related blogs out there. A a simple search on "dinosaur blog" will yield many possibilities! I'm looking forward to finding out who else is blogging and maybe which new blogs to start following. Thanks. Dr. B.
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I found http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/ to be very interesting and full of information. One of the quality's I really like about this blog is that is always being updated with information.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2015/which-came-first-dinosaur-or-bird
I really enjoyed this blog, his idea of what came first, the dinosaur or the bird?? We have been learning a lot about birds and the relationship to dinosaurs. What do you think?
http://www.uniquedinosaurs.com/i-Blog-576864/Why-call-them-Dinosaur-603394.html
I found this blog which I liked because there are several different pages you can read on and they are all about dinosaurs.
This is a quote I took for the page "However, a majority of modern paleontologists reject the traditional style of classification in favor of phylogenetic nomenclature, which requires that all descendants of a single common ancestor must be included in a group for that group to be natural. Birds are thus considered by most modern scientists to be dinosaurs and dinosaurs are, therefore, not extinct."
This is a pretty neat blog about reviewing toy dinosaur figurines. The actual owner of the site is Adam Smith. He is one of the 13 authors of the site by the handle Plesiosauria. He has by far the most posts and reviews. He is also…a curator and palaeontologist at the Nottingham Natural History Museum!!! Yep, that’s right. Pretty cool huh? His twitter is packed with great information in regards to plesiosaurs, he is obviously a big fan of them.
Blog: http://dinotoyblog.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamstuartsmith
Also, as a bonus, here is one of the most hilarious blogs with the subject of a dinosaur that I have ever read. It also drives home why many different type of early-education institutions have a zero costume policy.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
New views on old bones is a blog created by a REAL vertebrate paleontologist, Paul Barret, who works at the Natural History Museum in London studying dinosaur fossils and other extinct reptiles. This blog has some recent posts on a stegasaurus skeleton that was recently acquired by the museum,the discovery of a new ornithiscian by him and a colleague (very good read on a subject we've just covered), and other great posts giving readers the inside scoop on how publishing works and how paleontologists live. It's very informative while not being musty or boring. http://newviewsonoldbones.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/education-posts/students-use-3d-printing-to-reconstruct-dinosaurs
I thought this bog was really cool because it is current and incorporates new age technology into the topic of dinosaurs. This Blog comes from the American Museum of Natural History. I can’t find a specific author as it refers to the author as AMNH (the museum). I just thought it was cool because they are giving students the opportunity to use 3-D modeling software and new 3-D printing technology to produce actual models of dinosaurs directly from fossils. The students are also using the museum as a reference guide while working on these projects, which is quite a luxury! There is a really cool video showing this. There are many other posting topics as well such as research, field posts, and there are podcasts too. It is awesome that students are being able to “think like paleontologists” as they put it.
https://dinosaurpalaeo.wordpress.com/
This blog rants and raves on many things dino. I was surprised and happy to find that the first posts mentioned something about Therapod Thursdays and I love alliterations. They featured snapshots of our friends the avian dinosaurs. The next post after a bit more scrolling revealed a really interesting process and photo accompaniment of measuring dinosaurs. They looked like they were prepping for a museum or something but it reminded me of our assignment comparing and converting size of our femur to that of an Allosaurus. This blog has neat photos, descriptions, and even what appears to be a peak into the process of 3-D modeling. Hope you find this blog as interesting as I did!
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2015/02/10/brian-j-ford-aquatic-dinosaurs/
This blog addressed Brian J. Ford's, British author and independent research biologist, claims that all dinosaurs had to be aquatic. The article recaps what we've learned in our class about the evidence for how the dinosaurs lived. I like this article because it reminds us there are still differing views and the author presented his case well by addressing each argument with evidence of what has been currently found. The author of the blog is Darren Naish, a British vertebrae paleontologist and science writer.
-Kathryn O'Connor
http://dinosaursabbatical.blogspot.com/
This blog somewhat reminds me of the textbook. It reads nicely enough to give us enough detail to see the pattern of the subject, without throwing us too much at once. For example, his most recent post (last month) goes into some great explanations about prehistoric DNA (aDNA) and a comparison of the Jurassic Park movie coming out vs. the reality of the situation. I also find his writing style is great! Easy and fun to read.
The author himself is named Dr. Phil Manning. He plays an active role in scientific outreach, and was appointed as the Science and Technology Research Council to help promote sciences to as wide audiences as possible.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aeoEZZvtXg4/VG-wvIIhAvI/AAAAAAAABHk/iHQ-5RwjkhA/s1600/IMG_20141024_133623_304.jpg
This is a link to an image taken (found on his blog) of a sedimentary rock bearing fossils (Nov. 21, 2014)!
I didn't know people still even blogged anymore...
Having said that here's T-Rex Trying. A collection of drawings depicting T-Rex in difficult situations requiring the use of much larger arms than the one he possesses. T-Rex Trying is drawn by a couple in Los Angeles and was created after a few jokes that they had collaborated on. After a rise in popularity with the Tumblr community, the couple went on to create a book filled with their sketches and even a calendar. I think it's pretty clever and have been checking in with it every now and then. I'm actually surprised to see that their most recent sketch is that of T-Rex visiting Pike Place Market. Check it out!
This is an interesting blog run by Heinrich Mallison, who is a paleontologist, professor and researcher working on learning more about how large sauropod dinosaurs moved about.
A lot of his blog posts are very informative, and talk a lot about some of the research he does and his process. One of is more recent posts is about measuring a Giraffatitan (ex Brachiosaurus) and how crazy just measuring something massive like that is. He had to use a cherry picker to measure parts of it!
Not the most creative blog name or fancy layout, but lots of good info.
https://dinosaurpalaeo.wordpress.com/
through my findings the best I found was:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/2014/09/01/changing-life-appearance-of-dinosaurs/
This blog is great and has pictures with each post as well, scientific american is a well known magazine. In this blog there are also a ton of comments with useful information and also links to other information and books.
An honorable mention though not very scientific:
http://ieffinglovedinosaurs.tumblr.com/
http://isnotadinosaur.tumblr.com/
https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/
I really liked this blog due to its rather understandable nature! lots of images have been included to help the reader follow along with the text! the author has a doctorate and seems to be very active in the science community.
http://allaboutdinosaurs.blogspot.com/
Kagain is the host of this blog. She began blogging in 2009. She is a actually now a teenager who wants to be a marine biologist when she grows up. She likes being outdoors and going to sea world and discovery cove are her favorite places to go. I looked through several blogs but this was one that I liked most just because of the pics and the fact that the author is a young person who seems to have admirable goals and interests in life. Enjoy!
Time to mix it up a bit! This is a really fascinating blog about the art associated with dinosaurs, and the projected and hypothesized images these fossils could have looked like. I really like the Hadrosaur. This guy genuinely loves dinosaurs, and has a lot of great perspectives on what they would have looked like. I really enjoyed myself with this one--hope you will too!
http://dino-art.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.plos.org/paleo/
This link leads us to an interesting blog created by Doctor Andrew A. Farke, a paleontologist. Dr. Farke’s research interests primarily focus on the evolution and functional morphology of the ceratopsians, or horned dinosaurs.With this blog, we can learn more about the phylogeny of horned dinosaurs
http://www.dinosaurswtf.com
This blog has lots of images and fun facts about dinosaurs, the blogger has a sense of humor and it is fun to watch the blog. it wasn't updated frequently, but you still can find lots of information by reading the past posts. I would recommend everyone to read it.
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/10-funny-philosoraptor-memes
this isn't really a dinosaur blog but this post made me laugh, and I really like velociraptors as well as philosophizing. So enjoy some philosoraptor memes!!
I chose to go a more amusing way with this post!
http://saddinosaurfacts.tumblr.com/
I actually recommend going and reading a few, although only semi true facts, they will make you giggle AT LEAST.
I chose to go a more amusing way with this post!
http://saddinosaurfacts.tumblr.com/
I actually recommend going and reading a few, although only semi true facts, they will make you giggle AT LEAST.
This blog is interesting to read; the author is Ali Nabavizadeh who is a student at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on the evolution of jaw mechanisms in ornithischian dinosaurs. One of the things that I found interesting on his blog is the post about Jurassic World; I like how he identifies what is wrong (unscientific) about the movie, but is still supports it. I believe dinosaur movies such as: Jurassic Park and Land Before Time, are good at publicity and do a good job of getting people interested in learning about dinosaurs.
http://ornithischianrevolution.blogspot.com/
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