AMNH mounted Apatosaurus with Taylor for scale
September 8, 2012
We’re off to Oxford next week for SVPCA, so things may be quiet around here for a few days. Catch you on the flip side.
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring
SV-POW! … All sauropod vertebrae, except when we're talking about Open Access
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Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week by Mike Taylor, Matt Wedel, Darren Naish is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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September 8, 2012 at 1:09 am
damn – i thought that said Apatosaurus for SALE
September 8, 2012 at 9:38 am
Michael, if you really want to buy an Apatosaurus and you have $183,700 to spare, you can buy a museum-quality cast.
September 8, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Interesting link there Mike. Noticed the Jeholosaurus pic on the same site – do you think this is real? (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/images/casts/jeholosaurus_fossil_skeleton.jpg). It just seems to look almost too good.
September 18, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Good? It looks heavily reconstructed.
September 24, 2012 at 9:28 am
I can see its ‘reconstructed’, or perhaps parts of it are – that in itself is not unusual. I’m not referring to the chimeric look of it either. I asked because the thing appears under their section on “authentic fossils” for sale, just below the 1.4 mil dollar Saurolophus.
Obviously while the skull is faked, sections of the tail and legs look real enough, or have been casted from real material (in which case it would then be falsely advertised)