Paleoerrata = House of Bones + Flying Blind

As mentioned elsewhere my good friend and colleague (in Chinle stratigraphy and all things aetosaur) and paleoartist Dr. Jeffrey Martz has retired his blog Paleoerrata. However, in a sense this is not really a retirement as much as an evolution because his is now posting on two other blogs, House of Bones, which will deal with the science information themed posts and Flying Blind, which will deal with his interest in the evolution vs. creationism debate.  I urge everyone to update their blogrolls and check these two sites out.

Regarding his Triassic artwork, Jeff has always graciously let me post his new works here and has even chewed me out when they do not appear in  a timely manner. I will have a post up on his newest piece in a bit. In the meantime check out his two new sites.

Recent Triassic-themed Blog Posts

Many of you may have already seen these, while others may have missed out.  These are all definitely worth a read.


Phytodinosauria returns!
http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2010/08/coming-soon-triassic-phythodinosaurs-or.html

South American Basal Saurichians
http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2010/08/brief-thoughts-on-chromogisaurus-and.html

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2010/08/chromogisaurus-novasi-ezcurra-2010-ed.html

http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2010/08/cheerio-chromogisaurus.html

Dicynodonts
http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2010/08/dicynodonts-other-white-meat.html

[Sorry for any other recent Triassic posts I have missed]

Recent Triassic Posts at Other Blogs

First, Dr. Hans Sues covers the conclusions of two recent papers on the rise of the dinosaurs in the Triassic:

http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/06/rise-of-dinosaurs.html

Next up, Mickey Mortimer suggests that the indeterminate archosauriform Arctosaurus, known from a single incomplete vertebra from the Late Triassic of Nunavut, Canada may actually be a poposaurid:

http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2010/06/arctosaurus-poposaurid.html

More Triassic Thoughts -- Typothorax and Coelophysis

There are quite a few Triassic themed posts out there right now, most of them dealing with recent publications by staff from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and Appalachian State University.

Dinosaur Tracking - Articulated skeletons give a new look at "armodillodiles".

Brian Switek provides a brief overview of the new Typothorax paper from the most recent Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/05/27/articulated-skeletons-give-a-new-look-at-armadillodiles/

The Hairy Museum of Natural History - A new look for Typothorax

Matt Celeskey's post provided the original announcement and a really cool reconstruction.

http://www.hmnh.org/archives/2010/05/20/a-new-look-for-typothorax/

Paleo Errata - The JVP Typothorax paper - Jeff is still best

Jeff Martz provides a more detailed analysis as only he can.

http://paleoerrata.blogspot.com/2010/05/jvp-typothorax-paper-jeff-is-still-best.html


The Theropod Database - Rinehart et al's (2009) Coelophysis monograph - a review

Finally, Mickey Mortimer provides a review of the recent Coelophysis monograph by the same workers, which sounds eerily similar to something else I've read recently.

http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.com/2010/05/rinehart-et-al-2009s-coelophysis.html

The Return of 'Ask A Biologist'

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Blogroll Updates

I am well aware that many of the hits I get to this site are to access my blogroll, so I try to update it somewhat regularly to add sites that my readers (or myself) seem to be interested in. Just today I've added two more that I think may be of interest to at least some of you.

Crurotarsi: the Forgotten Archosaurs
http://forgottenarchosaurs.blogspot.com/

Tom Holtz first mentioned and gave us the following update on this site on his Facebook page, that this new blog (2 posts old at this writing) is by "a former undergrad of mine, Susan Drymala, who hopes to eventually go on to grad school working on crurotarsans/pseudosuchians. She figured starting a blog about them would be a good way to learn."

I'm personally grateful to Tom for slipping the term Pseudosuchia in there.

Another new blogroll item is what I think is the funniest blog I've ever read:

Hyperbole and a Half 
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

This site pretty much contains the hilarious random musings and artwork of Allie Brosh who started up this blog last summer because "I was procrastinating on studying for a physics final and I was like "I know what would be a good idea! I'm going to start a blog!" So I started a blog."  She already has over 2000 followers and two million hits!  I'll warn you, her site is very funny and very addictive. She does occasionally cover dinosaurs....

Finally, as some may be aware I have my own Civil War History blog on the History of the 1st Connecticut Voluteer Regiment, a unit that is poorly documented and that I have been accumulating information on for more than two decades.
 
Three Month Men
http://threemonthmen.blogspot.com/

I try to post something new every two weeks and you could just click on it to get my hits up, but I hope anyone who is a U.S. History buff may find it of interest. I don't cover dinosaurs there...

Go ahead and check these all out.

Paw-talk

This is an interesting site, includes a blog and also various forums ranging from everything such as wildlife conservation to pet care and grooming. Recently I was asked some questions regarding my work and blog for a blog post on this site. You can read my cheesy answers here. I also see that Matt Wedel (Ask Dr. Vector and SVPOW) also has an interview here. Brian Switek (Laelaps) also appears to be a regular contributor. Check it out.

Thanks to Ava for the invite.

Blogroll Updates and Thanks

Several regular readers have confessed to me that they often access my blog to check out my blogroll, which makes it easy to scroll down and view the topics of recent posts from a variety of blogs. I try to add new links regularly, especially to pages that I find myself travelling to often although I sometimes do not post on these additions. Anyhow, I have recently added a few new blog links as well as links to other pages of interest including Triassic researcher pages (Randy, please let me know when you move your CV page to your new institution) and National Park related sites (hey...I work in a national park). Anyhow, my readership has increased quite a bit since last August when I started the site and I'd like to thank everyone who drops by, especially my regulars. Please feel free to drop me a line or comment if there are other aspects of Triassic paleo and geology you would like to see covered in the future or if there are any links that I should add. Thanks again.

100 Best Blogs for Earth Science Scholars

Well, Chinleana made a list of 100 best blogs for Earth Science Scholars, as did many of my colleagues on my blogroll. I'm honored to be included in this company and glad that people are enjoying my ramblings.

Anyhow, check it out as there is a great list of informative earth science blogs listed here [dead link 3/25/2013].