Yesterday is a vicious blur of words. I did another 1,113 words on "The Maltese Unicorn." I'd hoped I'd be finished by Friday. I'm going to Boston on Sunday (the long-delayed birthday dinner), and I very much wanted to put this puppy to bed beforehand. I fear, however, I won't be finishing until maybe Tuesday. I've already spent twelve days on this ( Read more... )

Sunny today, and the wind is gone. I have the window open, but there's a chill in the air, and tomorrow we're supposed to see rain mixed with snow and a low tomorrow night of 22F. Currently, it's 59F, but the rain's not far away. I need green. I need warmth ( Read more... )

The last few days have been...well...crap. Almost complete and utter.

Today Spooky dragged me out of the house for a fairly wonderful day Outside (which I will describe, with photos, tomorrow). At the end of it all was a package from David Kirkpatrick (corucia), and in that package was a copy of William Stout's new book, Dinosaur Discoveries (2009, Flesk ( Read more... )

Here 2010 is hardly two-months old, and already a number of new dinosaur taxa have been described. The most exciting among these may be a new tyrannosarid, Bistahieversor sealeyi, from the Late Cretaceous of New Mexico, and a new brachiosaurid, Abydosaurus mcintoshi, from relatively older Late Cretaceous beds in Utah. Bistahieversor, known from ( Read more... )

I've been trying to find more images online of the new sauropod dinosaur from Spain, Turiasaurus riodevensis. I came up with three. The first two aren't so hot, quality-wise, but do give a sense of scale. The third, from CBS, is of the forelimb that was found articulated, and it's quite nice. They're all behind the cut:

( Turiasaurus riodevensis )