You missed a great pun title: "Gull-den Eye"

*THIS* is a dog at peace 😊

And the paper:
André O Fonseca, Fabiula P de Bem, Vitória Z Dalle-Laste, Maurício S Garcia & Rodrigo T Müller (2026)
Osteology of the axial skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) and its implications for early sauropodomorph cervicalization
doi: doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Giraffe-like regional cervical elongation AND *multiple sets of gastral baskets* - from an early sauropodomorph?!?! (plus tons of other cool stuff) The axial osteology of Macrocollum by Fonseca et al. is a great read, and an awesome study!

You're in for an olfactory assault then....😅

A day with Camarasaurus is always time well spent

Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (Casuarius) - Scientific Reports Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signaling. Despite possessing vividly colored head and neck skin, c...

It took almost a month for Scientific Reports to upload the final version, but here it is!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I JUST GOT AN ORIGINAL COPY OF J.B. HATCHER'S 1901 MONOGRAPH ON DIPLODOCUS CARNEGII!!!!! *AND* IT WAS SIGNED BY HATCHER!!!!!!!!!

It's about the mass arrest of the Knights Templar?

Wow. First you abandon crocs, then dinos and taphonomy....

AND *if* Drinker is really a pachycephalosaur, and Yinlong was bouncing around in coeval China, why not a little Morrison ceratopsian?
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Since troodontids were around, phylogenetically maybe dromaeosaurids too. And with Paraves, how farfetched is it to think oviraptorosaurs were around? (yes, IYKYK) And *IF* an alvarezsauroid + definitive Paraves, then a Morrison therizinosaur isn't impossible.

We have at least 1 (maybe 2) Morrison troodontids, and yes - *potentially* - a Morrison alvarezsauroid and pachycephalosaur (& each paper says that much more work is needed), but look at those respective lineages and think what else could have been, and IMO, was likely there.

IMO, one of the really cool things about the new Alnashetri paper is that it (potentially) further pushes back lineages, AND it emphasizes that formations - particularly the Morrison - likely harbored a bonanza of diverse smaller-bodied dino clades.
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(& I'm hoping @thecassowarykid.bsky.social does a series once the paper is officially out)
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And given all of @thecassowarykid.bsky.social's great papers on the visual display role of casques in cassowaries already, this at least teases the possibility (to me) that our 2021 paper might have been on to something....

that paper:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Cary...

I might be biased, but I think this is SUPER cool, because @tetzoo.bsky.social, @j-dunning.net, & I wrote a paper in 2021 that suggested that keratin-covered visual displays in extinct archosaurs might have also been 'extra visually enhanced' due to UV coloration/patterning.

Now, this could be caused by loads of different things. And just 'cause it glows & just 'cause birds can see UV, doesn't mean it's detectable by cassowaries under normal lighting conditions, or even detectable by them at all.

But....

This study found that between the known species of cassowaries, biofluorescent patterns differed significantly between species.

Now before we get too excited, this detailed study takes great care to make sure that potential caveats and other interpretations are clearly defined and repeated many times.

But...

irst, the In Press paper:

Green, T.L., Watanabe, A., Berman, J.M. et al. Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (Casuarius). Sci Rep (2026).

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's In Press, but there's a great paper from @thecassowarykid.bsky.social et al soon to officially come out, and I'll let the title do the talking: Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries.
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I don't know the whole history, but Matt Smith has the casting rights for UALVP2. RCI would have gotten the casts from Matt, but my impression was that RCI was the one to actually do this full mount.

I'll also add this Stegoceras by RCI. Yes, not a typical pachycephalosaur pose, but this is the only pachycephalosaur mount I know of in the world that has the ossified myosepta included. Such a small detail, but one that makes this mount an absolute jewel.

I did a paper involving African Ankole-Watusi cattle, and I was only able to get a hold of 3 individuals. Even though we stressed the low n & that was all we could get, one reviewer pitched a fit. I responded by saying that I would examine as many more as they could get donated for us. 😂

Now *THAT'S* something to brag about!

And shown with skin across the top of the bifid spines! 😍😍😍😍

Had a great trip up to the @AMNH! Never enough time here, but loads of great research projects kick started!
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