Nature paper! I AM NOW A BIG DEAL. - by Vivian
demagogue on 24/4/2013 at 17:24
Congratulations man. :D
I was meaning to ask you a ridiculous question.
Can you tell if they stole the dragon skeleton in Skyrim from an actual dinosaur?
... Probably sans some of the spikes.
I found one lying in this cabbage patch. (Clickable for full-size.)
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Al_B on 24/4/2013 at 17:37
That's excellent! :D
I'm not sure I'm really the best person to understand how Earth-shattering the conclusions that T-Rex actually flew are (or whatever the paper is about) but it certainly looks impressive.
Vivian on 24/4/2013 at 17:39
@dema
I remember thinking they had a pelvis kind of like (
http://www.savalli.us/LSC294/Labs/11.Theropods.html) Herrerasaurus, which is a really early theropod. Other than that they seem to be a hodge-podge of dinosaurs and other archosaurs. The scapular is deffo a bit small for a flying animal, and they don't have much of a sternum either, so I'm guessing they're a mosaic of various terrestrial archosaurs. Definitely archosaurs though.
jay pettitt on 24/4/2013 at 17:40
Rexy had to close his eyes tight, grit his teeth and flap those little arms really hard and then.... woosh!
He could hover too.
DDL on 24/4/2013 at 17:41
Quote:
or whatever the paper is about
Doesn't matter: nature paper.
Could be about meta-graphology of crudely drawn cocks, but if it's in nature: BAM nature paper. Your CV is now set for life.
I am
insanely jealous, obviously, but still: fucktons of gratz, Viv!
demagogue on 24/4/2013 at 17:46
@Viv. Haha, I like how easily you roll with the fact that, despite being a mythical massive flying reptile, you can still talk about what's plausible and not because you fucking wrote the paper on it. :D
faetal on 24/4/2013 at 17:46
Not to mention that a flying animal of reptilian origin would need some serious hox gene action before it ended up with 4 legs and wings.
CONGRATS DUDE!
I'm in the process of putting together data for a paper which will (hopefully) be submitted to Nature Medicine and (hopefully maybe) be accepted without major revisions, but you've ACTUALLY been published in Nature.
Queue on 24/4/2013 at 18:04
Congratulations! That's awesome news, and an interesting read.
Muzman on 24/4/2013 at 18:49
Quote Posted by Vivian
What's got two thumbs, a temporarily overinflated ego, ...
Ooh ooh! An Iguanadon!
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...and a lead-author publication in the most prestigious journal in their field?
oh, guess not.
Still: HOLY SHIT!
