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GoofyStinkin' CrocsStinkin' HeadsStinkin' MammalsWedel LabScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

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Credit Where It's DueDissectionStinkin' CrocsStinkin' MammalsWedel LabScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

It’s an anniversary of sorts. Not today, nor any particular day this year, but this year, 2011, marks my 15th year doing research. The last time I blogged about this was the 10th anniversary, back in 2006. Back then I was in my fifth year as a PhD student in Kevin Padian’s lab at Berkeley. I knew I’d have to finish and get a job, but I had no idea how either of those things was going to happen.

ApatosaurusCollectionsDiplodocidsFilthy LucreIliumScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Autore Matt Wedel

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NomenclatureRantsShiny Digital FutureStinkin' PlantsScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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This just in, forwarded to the ICZN mailing list by Donat Agosti: In short, this means that if you work on plants, you will be able, starting in January, to name new species in electronic-only publications such as PLoS ONE and Palaeontologia Electronica — publications that are becoming increasingly important due to their openness and easy accessibility. This is great news for botanists.

DIYHow The Sausage Is MadePapers By SV-POW!sketeersTutorialScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Matt recently told us how to get ideas for papers, but if you’ve not previously published, you may be wondering how you get from idea to actual manuscript.  I’ve written about twenty palaeontology papers now, not counting trivial ones like encyclopaedia entries and corrections (plus a few in computer science).

BrachiosauridsGiraffatitanGoofyStinkin' HeadsScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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Every now and then, you come across a sauropod skull so beautiful, it’s almost enough to distract you from the vertebrae that it was attached to.  One such is the Giraffatitan brancai skull HMN T1, which you’ve seen here before if you’ve been around for a while.

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In a new comment on an oldish post, Peter Adlam asked: I answered this in a followup comment, but because the answer involved a few nice images, I thought it ought to be promoted into a post of its own.  So here it is, in expanded form.

CamarasaursDiplodocusGiraffatitanMamenchisaurNecksScienze della Terra e dell'AmbienteInglese
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In our recent paper on how the long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily due to sexual selection (Taylor et al. 2011), one of the ideas we discussed is that sexual dimorphism between the necks of male and female sauropods would be an indicator of sexual selection.  And, rather despairingly, we wrote (page 4): But I wonder if we realise just how true this is, and how blind we are flying?