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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Ryosuke and Lars on Capital Public Radio
CapRadio’s ‘Insight’ and host Jeffrey Callison wanted to find out more about nocturnal dinosaurs and invited us for their show. Listen to what we had to say (we are on starting about 39mins in). ‘Insight’ is a daily in-depth interview … Continue reading
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The Press Club
Here is a short, incomplete round-up of the press coverage that our papers in Science and Evolution received. Nature (subscription required), “Dinosaur predators hunted in the dark” The New York Times, “Some Dinosaurs Liked the Night Life, Eye Bones Show” … Continue reading
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Listen to Quirks & Quarks
As Larry Witmer pointed out yesterday, this was a fantastic week for dinosaur paleobiology. Two papers on dinosaur sensory systems were published. One by Ryosuke and me, focusing on eyes, the other by Darla Zelenitsky and colleagues, sniffing out olfaction. … Continue reading
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Nocturnal dinosaurs
Nocturnal dinosaurs. Wait a second! Is that right? Nocturnal (= night-active) dinosaurs? Yes, indeed. Contrary to what was commonly believed, many dinosaurs were nocturnal. We have to change our perception of the dinosaur era. All details about methods, results, and … Continue reading
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Tagged dinosaurs, diurnal, eye shape, nocturnal, scleral rings, sensitivity, vision
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Eye shape revisited
In the anticipation of the publication of our dinosaur paper I thought it may be timely to highlight one of my latest papers: Schmitz, L. & R. Motani (2010). Morphological differences between the eyeballs of nocturnal and diurnal amniotes revisited … Continue reading
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Tagged diurnal, eye shape, nocturnal, scleral rings, sensitivity
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