A few weeks ago, we were considering the bizarre Umbaran Starfighter from The Clone Wars , and its extraordinary similarity to an Apatosaurus cervical: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7368 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7368” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/01/04/umbaran-starfighter-update/1322344262m_splash/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/1322344262m_splash.jpeg” orig-size=“500,355”

Just sayin’: vs. (From here.) Update The rest of the Umbaran Starfighter Saga: Was the Umbaran Starfighter from Clone Wars inspired by an Apatosaurus vertebra? (Dec. 13, 2012) Heck, yes, the Umbaran Starfighter from Clone Wars was inspired by an Apatosaurus vertebra (Dec. 15, 2012) Umbaran Starfighter update (Jan.

Yesterday, Matt showed you this starship from the Star Wars universe: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7306 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7306” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/12/13/was-the-umbaran-starfighter-from-clone-wars-inspired-by-an-apatosaurus-vertebra/umbaranstarfighter-swe/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/umbaranstarfighter-swe.png” orig-size=“462,482” comments-opened=“1”

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A few months ago, Matt and Darren saw a picture someone had done of an Apatosaurus with huge neck-flaps. Since they, they’ve tried to find it again but without success.

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”

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In a comment on the previous post, Steve P. asked whether “ Apatosaurus ” minimus might not be a Apatosaurus specimen after all — particularly, an Apatosaurus ajax individual resembling NSMT-PV 20375, the one in the National Science Museum, Tokyo, that Upchurch et al. (2005) so lavishly monographed.

This is the Brontosaurus that I grew up with: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-6588 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“6588” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2012/07/16/how-fat-was-brontosaurus-well-not-this-fat-anyway/shannon1960-how-and-why-wonder-brontosaurus/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/shannon1960-how-and-why-wonder-brontosaurus.jpeg” orig-size=“2152,3001” comments-opened=“1”

I don’t have time to write about this properly, but a few people have asked me about the new Sellers et al. (2012) paper on measuring the masses of extinct animals — in particular, the Berlin Giraffatitan — by having a CAD program generate minimal complex hulls around various body regions.