Hi folks, It’s been a while since I posted here. I haven’t gone off SV-POW! or anything, just going through one of my periodic doldrums (read: super-busy with Other Stuff). I’m writing now to draw your attention to two books that I’m pretty darned excited about.

Alexandre Fabre recently bought a French-language comic-book, Les Dinosaures by Plumeri and Bloz, and found this in the third volume: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7059 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7059” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/11/12/un-sauropode-aux-jambes-musclees/brontomerus-2/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/brontomerus.jpeg” orig-size=“679,364” comments-opened=“1”

One of our anatomy students this year, Tess MacFife, was inspired by the other Dr. Wedel’s skull lecture and produced this excellent anatomy-inspired jack-o-lantern: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7042 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7042” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/11/01/your-sphenoid-is-disturbingly-bat-like/sphenoid-pumpkin/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/sphenoid-pumpkin.jpg” orig-size=“1744,2324”

Another blast from the past: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-6988 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“6988” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/10/18/2000-ads-flagrantly-plagiarised-brontosaurus/2000ad-prog-10-back-cover-flesh-card-game-brontosaur/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/2000ad-prog-10-back-cover-flesh-card-game-brontosaur.jpeg” orig-size=“522,344” comments-opened=“1”

Here’s a blast from the past: {.size-full .wp-image-6889 .aligncenter loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“6889” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/10/02/2000ads-bizarre-fin-handed-compsognathus/2000ad-prog-8-back-cover-flesh-card-game-compsognathus/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/2000ad-prog-8-back-cover-flesh-card-game-compsognathus.jpeg” orig-size=“521,344” comments-opened=“1”

Friday evening I was in a pub with Mike, Darren, John Conway, and Emma Lawlor. We were killing time waiting for the Pink Giraffe Chinese restaurant down the street to open. I was chatting with John about “All Todays”, his speculative presentation with Cevdet Kosemen (a.k.a. Nemo Ramjet) on how future sentients might reconstruct Holocene animals if they were known only from fossils.

Just over a year ago, I described Niroot Puttapipat’s “ Giraffatitan just being awesome while wave after wave of Incisivosaurus perish in its glorious presence” as the most awesome piece of art EVER. That may have been true at the time.

Here’s where I thought Dave Hone’s Academics on Archosaurs series was going: Be honest: aren’t you just a little disappointed that it’s not? [The actual Tom Holtz article is here.

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