Updates

May 26, 2006: I thought I hadn't touched this site in over a year, but it looks like I was wrong. Anyway, if you haven't figured it out, palaeontological literature is hugely more accessible online now than it was in 2003/2004 (long live Dinoforum!), and my little index will not be maintained. It's still here for those who want it, though. I've been using my DeviantArt account a bit more lately, so head over there if you want to see some drawings.

July 9, 2005: New article on dromaeosaur restoration, again. Argues somewhat against the old essay, mostly because I was bored.

June 22, 2005: New index with updated title image, more text. Additions of essays, etc. plausible in the near future. And check out the current issue of PT for my drawing of Tsintaosaurus.

April 10, 2005: Fruitafossor link added, in the mammal section.

March 4, 2005: It's been increasingly common lately for new free .pdf papers to be announced on popular palaeontology forums and mailing lists, so I've been cutting back on adding them to this site. If new .pdf gets a public announcement elsewhere, I may index it, but likely won't update this page to indicate that I did anything. (By the way, there's a bunch of new stuff on the papers page.)

November 18, 2004: Couple of drawings added to the comics page.

October 21, 2004: Two new papers on Russian hadrosaurs: Godefroit, P., Y.L. Bolotsky & V. Alifanov, 2003. A remarkable hollow-crested hadrosaur from Russia: an Asian origin for lambeosaurines. C. R. Palevol 2: 143-151.

Godefroit, P., Y.L. Bolotsky & J. van Itterbeeck, 2004. The lambeosaurine dinosaur Amurosaurus riabinini, from the Maastrichtian of Far Eastern Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (4): 585-618.

September 1, 2004: No real updates, but I thought I'd just let readers know I haven't abandoned the site! There have been many new dinosaur papers in the past month, but I haven't found free links to them online yet. In other news, the current issue of Prehistoric Times features one of my comics. :)

July 29, 2004: Added a new phylogeny paper, thanks to Mickey Mortimer's enlightening review on the Dinosaur Mailing List of Ronald Jenner's discussions of cladistics. As far as I know, this is the only one available for free online:
Jenner, R.A. & F.R. Schram, 1999. The grand game of metazoan phylogeny: rules and strategies. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 74: 121-142.

July 12, 2004: Recently added dinosaur papers:
Gauthier, J. & K. de Queiroz, 2001. Feathered dinosaurs, flying dinosaurs, crown dinosaurs, and the name "Aves." Pp. 7-41 in J. Gauthier & L. F. Gall (eds.), New Perspectives on the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds. Proceedings of the International Symposium in Honor of John H. Ostrom, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Makes some suggestions for theropod taxonomy.

Miller, D., J. Summers & S. Silber, 2004. Environmental vs. genetic sex determination: a possible factor in dinosaur extinction? Fertility & Sterility 81 (4): 954-964. Attracted considerable media attention earlier this year, for the suggestion that dinosaurs died out because too many of them were male.

Robertson, D.S., M.C. McKenna, O.B. Toon, S. Hope & J.A. Lillegraven, 2004. Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic. Geological Society of America Bulletin 116 (5/6): 760-768. Another major extinction paper this year, leading to popular news reports that "most dinosaurs were incinerated in a matter of hours."

Schweitzer, M.H., F.D. Jackson, L.M. Chiappe, J.G. Schmitt, J.O. Calvo & D.E. Rubilar, 2002. Late Cretaceous avian eggs with embryos from Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1): 191-195. Possibly enantiornithean eggs.

July 8, 2004: This page, which has been requested, is new. Article on why dromaeosaurs should be restored with feathers is new. Kerberosaurus and Aberratiodontus restorations were recently submitted to my gallery, and should be on display soon.

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