Get your red/cyan anaglyph glasses on, and feast your eyes: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10537 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10537” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/06/27/xenoposeidon-in-glorious-3d/xenoposeidon-nhm-r2095-left-lateral-anaglyph/” orig-file=“https://svpow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/xenoposeidon-nhm-r2095-left-lateral-anaglyph.jpeg” orig-size=“2436,2759” comments-opened=“1”

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Check out this beautiful Lego Diplodocus : {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-10521 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“10521” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/06/18/a-beautiful-lego-diplodocus-skeleton/10954093715_c4c7fe19ec_k-crop/” orig-file=“https://svpow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10954093715_c4c7fe19ec_k-crop.jpg” orig-size=“480,319” comments-opened=“1”

We feature a lot of Brian Engh’s stuff here–enough that he has his own category. But lately he has really been outdoing himself. The wave of awesome started last year, when Brian started posting videos showing builds and suit tests for monsters–monster suits, monster puppets, monster you-name-its.

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In a couple of weeks (in the early afternoon of 25 June), I’ll be speaking at ESOF 2014 (the EuroScience Open Forum) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The session I’m part of is entitled “Should science always be open?”, and the irony is not lost on me that, as that page says, “You must be registered and signed in to download session materials.” So here is the abstract for my talk — one of four in the session, to be followed by an open discussion.

We’ve touched on this several times in various posts and comment threads, but it’s worth taking a moment to think in detail about the various published mass estimates for the single specimen MB.R.2181 (formerly known as HMN SII), the paralectotype of Giraffatitan brancai , which is the basis of the awesome mounted skeleton in Berlin.

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As promised, some thoughts on the various new brachiosaur mass estimates in recent papers and blog-posts. Back in 2008, when I did the GDI of Giraffatitan and Brachiosaurus for my 2009 paper on those genera, I came out with estimates of 28688 and 23337 kg respectively. At the time I said to Matt that I was suspicious of those numbers because they seemed too low.