Remember this broken Giraffatitan dorsal vertebra, which Janensch figured in 1950?

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From the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, I give you the sacrum and fused ilia of “ Apatosaurus ” minimus AMNH 675, as correctly identified by Steve P in a comment to the previous post: {.alignnone .size-full .wp-image-6439 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“6439” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/06/27/apatosaurus-minimus-sacrumilia-right-lateral-view/img_0612-apatosaurus-minimus-sacrum-right-lateral/”

A couple of posts back, when Matt was talking about turtle laminae, he included a photo of me in front of the skeleton of the giant turtle Archelon . Also in that photo is the tripod I was using — if you want to call it that — a tripod of altogether startling inadequacy.

Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up. You may recall a story from the Onion Our Dumb Century book, allegedly from 1904, about the skeleton of Satan being discovered in Wyoming.

…with sauropod bones! Lots of basements have them. Some basements have had them for decades, and other basements have been newly constructed to house them. So you can take advantage of that retro chic while taking your basement into the 21st century! What the heck am I talking about?

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