I visited the British Museum a while ago with my daughter and was struck by some of the animal imagery in the loot on display– particularly, as an archosaurophile, the crocodiles (Crocodylia, crocodylians, etc.; no alligatoroids to show in this post). So I decided to go back and photograph some of them for a blog post […]
Search Results for 'crocodile'
Crocodiles in Human Culture: British Museum Part 1
Posted in Croc-cicles, tagged art, crocodile, museum on June 7, 2014| 9 Comments »
Guest Post: Crocodiles From The Freezers, Stiff Spines and Strong Levers
Posted in Exalting Archosauria, Guestsicle, tagged biomechanics, crocodile, dem bones, dissection, publication, vertebrae on February 27, 2014| 8 Comments »
(John: here’s a guest post from my former PhD student, soon to be 100% legit PhD, Dr., and all that jazz, Julia Molnar!) This is my first guest post, but I have been avidly following what’s in John’s freezer (and the blog too) for quite a while. I joined the lab in 2009 and left […]
Crimbo Comes Early– Crocodiles!
Posted in Croc-cicles, tagged anatomy, crocodile, freezer love, new specimens! on November 4, 2012| 1 Comment »
A quick report on an exciting event for my team, from this week: We got a box! A big one! With 10 frozen crocodiles. Stomach-Churning Rating: 5 out of 10. Just 1 picture with some blood. These come from a breeding centre in southern France, and died of natural causes. Here is a little, […]
Studying “WCROC,” a 278 kilogram, 3.7 meter long Nile crocodile!
Posted in Croc-cicles, tagged anatomy, crocodile, CT, dissection, RVC on October 15, 2012| 5 Comments »
I stumbled across some old pics, which I thought I’d lost, from the filming/preparations of 4 episodes of Inside Nature’s Giants (Jan-Feb 2009) at the RVC. They form a nice accompaniment to my previous post reflecting on my experience with the show, and the timing is great because I’m about to head to Raleigh, NC […]
Evolutionary Biomechanics of Dinosaur Legs
Posted in Better Know A Muscle, Biomechanics, Exalting Archosauria, Freezermas, tagged DAWNDINOS, dinosaur, fossilicious, modelling, muscle, publication on March 19, 2021| 6 Comments »
The blog is back! Briefly. With dinosaurs. Back in 2005, I published a paper in which I used a “SIMM” 3D musculoskeletal biomechanical model of Tyrannosaurus rex to analyse its muscle actions and infer a relatively upright hindlimb pose. This was an outcome from my NSF-funded postdoctoral research at Stanford University, in which engineers kindly […]
Years Seven Through Eight of John’s Freezer
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2020| 3 Comments »
We live in a weird future. In the Coronavirus pandemic anything seems possible; entropy has been set loose from its cage. Within this higgledy-piggledy universe, I realize that I have forgotten to write annual summaries for this blog for the past 2 years (2018-present). Physical distancing means that I can now make amends — will […]
Crimbo Crocodylian Capers
Posted in Croc-cicles, Exalting Archosauria, tagged anatomy, biomechanics, CT, fossilicious, pathology, publication, vertebrae on December 17, 2019| 3 Comments »
Ho ho ho! The vagaries of the scientific publication system today brings forth TWO open access papers on crocodylian functional anatomy, evolution and biomechanics, from my team with others’; including our DAWNDINOS project in part. Get ready to bite down on the science! I’ve loved crocodylians throughout my life– “dacadile” was among my first words, […]
These Are A Few of Mon Préféré Things
Posted in Museums are Cool, Voyages, tagged anatomy, crocodile, dem bones, elephants, evolution, fossilicious, museum, pathology, Rhinos Matter, tetrapod on March 3, 2019| 7 Comments »
To me, there is no question that the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée of Paris’s Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN) is the mecca of organismal anatomy, as their homepage describes. Georges Cuvier got the morphological ball rolling there and numerous luminaries were in various ways associated with it too; Buffon and Lamarck and St […]
Darwin Day 2019: Some Papers In Evolutionary Biomechanics
Posted in Biomechanics, Exalting Archosauria, Freezermas, Frozen Mammals, Two-Dog-Night Tetrapods, tagged anatomy, biomechanics, boids, buddies, dem bones, dinosaur, evolution, giraffe, publication, simulation on February 12, 2019| 1 Comment »
Today is the 210th anniversary of Charles R. Darwin’s birthday so I put together a quick post. I’d been meaning to blog about some of our latest scientific papers, so I chose those that had an explicit evolutionary theme, which I hope Chuck would like. Here they are, each with a purty picture and a […]
“Everything” You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know About Mammalian Kneecaps
Posted in Frozen Mammals, Shiverin' Sesamoids!, tagged anatomy, dem bones, evolution, fossilicious, patella, publication on March 21, 2017| 5 Comments »
I’m not shy about my fondness for the patella (kneecap) of tetrapod vertebrates, and neither are the other members of RVC’s “Team Patella”. We’ve had a fun 3+ years studying these neglected bones, and today we’ve published a new study of them. Our attention has turned from our prior studies of bird and lepidosaur kneecaps […]
-
Join 17,150 other subscribers
Rummage Through the Blog Freezer
Census of the Freezer-Curious
- 614,778 frozen to date
@JohnRHutchinson
- "hindlimb model - for rotoscopingv2 - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE THIS ONE" - great #DAWNDINOS file name, @AndrewRCuff 😃 7 hours ago
- Palaeogene birds are pretty cool. Here's a nice fossil of front parts of Palaeortyx "hoffmani" (major?); some sort… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- National Medal of Arts for Julia Louis-Dreyfus. What a photo! from AFP/Getty Images https://t.co/TMmhN8WE0o 9 hours ago
- RT @VestiVisiLab: The unforeseen complications of doing #mocap at Hogwarts https://t.co/CxfbRKQNme 9 hours ago
- RT @3rdreviewer: Mind blown 🤯: It turns out that somatic cells turn *on* a regulator that increases mutation. This complex is turned off in… 9 hours ago
-
Recent Posts
Buried in the Freezer (archive)
What's In John's Freezer? 