Plateosaurus is comical
September 5, 2013
Back in 2008, Matt and I were at the Museum Für Naturkunde Berlin. We spent some time down in the collections, where we were particularly pleased to see the much-admir’d C8 of Giraffatitan‘s paralectotype, MB.R.2181 (previously known as HMN SII).
While we were down there, we found a C8 from Plateosaurus, too, so we put that next to the Giraffatitan vertebra and shot them together:
I’m just sayin’, is all.
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Note: after having written this post, I now see that I wrote an essentially identical one, with an essentially identical image, earlier this year. My memory is definitely going. Oh well: since I’ve written this, I may as well post it anyway.
September 5, 2013 at 7:59 am
mwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 5, 2013 at 5:08 pm
This post is just a glitch in the Matrix.
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