Allow me to vent my spleen a little. Although I revel in biodiversity and am fascinated by so many orgnaisms there are some I just plain hate. This is one of them. Khaki bush/mexican marigold (Tagetes minuta)- an unpleasant stinking weed that grows profusely where-ever I need to do field work in South Africa. These tenaciously sticky seeds come off from the seed heads at the slightest touch and embed themselves in any form of clothing. After walking through a field of these you can end up looking like you are covered in black spiky fur.
This was what I bought me out into the field over the weekend - a partial dinosaur skeleton from an odd mudstone lens way up in the Clarens Formation, where dinosaurs are rare. Somewhat disappointingly it turned out to be just another basal sauropodomorph. Oh well.
New paper: pneumatic dorsal ribs in Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus
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New paper out today with Logan King, Julia McHugh, and Brian Curtice, on
pneumatic ribs in Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus (King et al. 2024). This one
had an...
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Somewhat disappointingly it turned out to be just another basal sauropodomorph. Oh well.You take that back right now!
This is why you lost all your readers. ;-)
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