Dr Dave Hone

I think "idiosyncratic" is a bit generous.

Has your height changed at all between papers? Could be a really fun one pager in the variation of Farke silhouettes.

Oh yes, they'd be fun to have back the next time we get some good flooding.

I have seen this and it is truly, monumentally, entertainingly, awful.

And tigers. :)

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"Fruit synchronicity" would have been an interesting Police album.

A perfectly reasonable response.

Yeah, he wrote to my university and told them they should withdraw my PhD. My crime was suggesting that rather than argue with me in the comments on my blog, he should submit his ideas in a paper for peer review.

It's always been my biggest weakness. I do know a bit about Schroedinger's cat, but never got around to his Carnotaurus.

He seems to have blocked me as I now can't see any of the preceding conversation. Obviously a class thing to slide into a conversation, suggest people are terrible at their work, and then preemptively block them.

I mean, it's close enough in context given the absolute shoeing Wales have had in the last 2 weeks.

This seems unfair, the others all go downhill.

Called it.

Well England, for the second week running that was absolutely shocking.

But are there long-horned and short-horned hornless horned dinosaurs? :D

I mean, it's literally the name we gave to another spinosaur species and based on the 'heron' model that Tom Holtz and I proposed, so pretty hard to claim it's an original quip.

Does that mean we can have short-tailed tailed tailless bats and long-tailed tailed tailless bats?

Buried at the bottom, well below some chancer named Witton.

I've seen it pop up quite prominently on Reddit on threads about the new paper. So there are other people raising it.

New fossils may settle debate over mysterious sail-backed spinosaurs Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons

I get a quote here on the new Spinosaurus paper in @newscientist.com www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Nah, we knew it was coming (and it gets a brief mention based on the SVP abstract since that was public knowledge). And IMO the only think really new here is the crest. After that there's a lot on signaling, wading and general stuff on their evolution, all things that are well established.

Why read one short paper on Spinosaurus when you can read an entire book?

A "hell heron" eh? Wonder where they got that name from?

Invade Greenland?

In the UK at least, my set of four kids books on dinosaurs (of which I am very proud, I genuinely think these are excellent) is currently half price on Amazon!

I do love Amargasaurus and that's a lovely rendition!

I'm sure with enough time and money this is probably actually achievable (at least something genetically nearly identical could be made) but these timelines are obviously insane given the extraordinary number of major hurdles that need to be overcome.

It's in there. People have done late career shifts and worked independently - it is possible.

"And there'll be one in ten years."

Does he want to bet on it? I'll even give him odds.

Provided of course it's not the bait-and-switch of 'we modified 5 genes and we call it a dire wolf and what is taxonomy anyway, so here's your resurrected species'.