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Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Author Matt Wedel

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Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Author Matt Wedel

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Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Last time, I noted that photographs of the exact same object, even under the same lighting conditions, can come out different colours. That is one of the two reasons why I am not persuaded that the very different colours of my photos of the two Supersaurus scapulae is strong evidence that they are from different individuals.

Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

In part 5 of the Supersaurus series, I made the point that my photos of Scap A and Scap B seem to show them as being very different colours, suggesting different preservation. However … The first of these points has just been brought home to me by an unrelated experience. The rendering on an outside wall of our house had come loose, and needed to be removed and replaced.

Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Years ago, the roof of our summer-house suffered some water damage and had to be replaced. So I converted it into a woodshed which I attached to the side of our house. As well the store for our firewood logs, it’s also where I keep many of my decomposing corpses — most of them in boxes and bags, a few of them not.

Published in Syntaxus baccata

I got to make photographs of pre-made specimens with a microscope, and I wanted to show some of them. This is part one of a longer series; there were a lot of specimens. Below are details of the cross section of a basswood stem. Detail Outer layer Center Human artery tissue. Human bone tissue (with some unidentified dark stuff). More next week!

Published in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Author Matt Wedel

This whole section, including the title, is mostly swiped from Mike’s Tutorial 17. Other posts in this series are here. Papers referenced in these slides: Farke, Andrew A., and Sertich, Joseph J.W. 2013. An abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Turonian of Madagascar. PLoS ONE 8(4): e62047. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062047 [PDF] Taylor, Michael P., Mathew J. Wedel and Richard L. Cifelli. 2011.