I also read more of the December issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology — "Comparison and biomechanical interpretations of the vertebrae and osteoderms of Cacops aspidephorus and Dissorophus multicinctus (Temnospondyli; Dissorophoridae)," and "A possible new ctenosauriscid archosaur from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania.".    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Did During My Plague Vacation ( by Me)] Reference

Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Continue reading "Chicken, archosaur...same difference" on Pharyngula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Pterosaurs are in fact a sister group of crocodilians and dinosaurs (including birds) in the archosaur clade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinopterus, the New Flying Reptile » E-Mail] Reference

Among the remnants are rare fragments of land life that survived the same period, including part of a conifer plant and the tooth of an archosaur reptile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fossil hunters uncover complete 252m year-old underwater world] Reference

In the June issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, which I'm only just now getting around to, I read the type description of the new species of "rauisuchid" archosaur Postosuchus alisonae from the Triassic of North Carolina.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Least I'm Not At Dragon*Con (Part One)] Reference

I may have to send this news article to school with her: investigators have found that a mutation in chickens causes them to develop teeth—and the teeth resemble those of the common ancestor of alligators and chickens, an archosaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The coin depicted the start of the continental drift of Gondwana and also portrays euphrkeri, an archosaur (a reptile of a large group including the crocodilians, together with the extinct dinosaurs and pterosaurs), belonging to the ancestral group of animals from which dinosaurs and bears evolved.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And there's been more from the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, papers on the "rauisuchian" archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis; the ontogeny of Stegosaurus; ontogenetic and taxonomic implications of pattern and transition of surficial bone texture of the centrosaurine frill; and Adeopapposaurus, a new prosauropod dinosaur from Argentina.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Fill the night with stories. The legend grows."] Reference

This is not even a dinosaur, it's an archosaur called Postosuchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Texas Oasis] Reference

Additional statistical tests showed that both the "early-archosaur" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

The evolution of the archosaur pelvis and hind-limb: an explanation in functional terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

These alternatives are the early-archosaur hypothesis, positing a sister-group relationship between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

No one knows much about the archosaur that was the common ancestor of crocodilians and of pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds, Farmer says.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Altogether, three hypotheses for the origin of birds -- the BMT, early-archosaur, and crocodylomorph hypotheses -- are most compatible with currently available evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

Science - means that such a breathing pattern likely evolved before 246 million years ago, when crocodilians split from the branch of the archosaur family tree that led to pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Some researchers have argued that unidirectional airflow evolved after crocodilians split from the archosaur family tree, arising among pterosaurs and theropod dinosaurs, the primarily meat-eating group that included.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Some researchers have argued that unidirectional airflow evolved after crocodilians split from the archosaur family tree, arising among pterosaurs and theropod dinosaurs, the primarily meat-eating group that included Tyrannosaurus rex.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

By demonstrating one-way or "unidirectional" airflow within the lungs of alligators, results of the new study suggest that such a breathing pattern likely evolved before 246 million years ago, when crocodilians split from the branch of the archosaur family tree that led to pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

By demonstrating one-way or "unidirectional" airflow within the lungs of alligators, the new study - published in the journal Science - means that such a breathing pattern likely evolved before 246 million years ago, when crocodilians split from the branch of the archosaur family tree that led to pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Reference

By demonstrating one-way or "unidirectional" airflow within the lungs of alligators, the new study - published in the Friday, Jan. 15 issue of the journal Science - means that such a breathing pattern likely evolved before 246 million years ago, when crocodilians split from the branch of the archosaur family tree that led to pterosaurs, dinosaurs and birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This is really unfortunate as, like so many people involved in the making of the series (I advised on the life appearances of the creatures, and also provided some anatomical and behavioural information), I honestly got the sincere impression from the makers that they were interested in the science, in accuracy, and in an honest portrayal of where we're at with Mesozoic archosaur biology.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Shuvosaurus, a Late Triassic archosaur from the Chinle Group, American Southwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hairy Museum of Natural History] Reference

I don’t see, “Hmmm, tastes like archosaur”, having quite the same cultural ring to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Nesbitt & Norell included Effigia, and theropods and other taxa, in a modified version of Mike Benton’s basal archosaur data set, and Effigia is consistently recovered as a suchian within a rauisuchian clade that also includes Arizonasaurus and the bizarre fin-backed Lotosaurus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Chicken, archosaur…same difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken, archosaur...same difference - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

From then until the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, any land animal longer than about 3 feet was an archosaur, says Farmer, while mammal-like synapsid survivors "were teeny little things hiding in cracks.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

From then until the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, any land animal longer than about three feet was an archosaur, says Farmer, while mammal-like synapsid survivors "were teeny little things hiding in cracks.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference