In a word, amazingly. After 6 days (counting public galleries last Sunday), 4300 photos, 55 videos, dozens of pages of notes, and hundreds of measurements, we’re tired, happy, and buzzing with new observations and ideas.
I wasted some time today making memes. I blame the Paleontology Coproliteposting group on Facebook.
Thanks to everyone who’s engaged with yesterday’s apparently trivial question: what does it mean for a vertebra to be “horizontal”? I know Matt has plenty of thoughts to share on this, but before he does I want to clear up a couple of things. This is not about life posture First, and I really should have led with this: the present question has nothing to do with life posture.
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We all know that apatosaurines have big honkin’ cervical ribs (well, most of us know that). But did they also have unusually large neural spines? The question occurred to me the other day when I was driving home from work.
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Here’s a bunch of cool stuff that is either available now or happening soon: {.size-large .wp-image-14542 .aligncenter loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“14542” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2017/11/28/promo-pandemonium-prehistoric-times-mark-hallett-calendar-public-talks-and-norwescon-41/pt-cover-issue-123-fall-2017/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/pt-cover-issue-123-fall-2017.jpg” orig-size=“1200,1556” comments-opened=“1”
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