All three tetrapods shown here all work on tetrapods. But what the hell Dave Martill was doing I can't recall. Eric Buffetaut appears over my shoulder. I look bemused.
Mo Hussan - of The Disillusioned Taxonomist - took this photo on the Isle of Wight. Thanks Mo, I think. Something about Tet Zoo has been different over the past couple of weeks - have you noticed what it is?
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I know! I know! but i was sworn to secrecy by your co-conspiritor. lhehe
I dont know what to say about the photo - is it his sauropod impression?
It looks like he's just tried to bowl an orthodox slow left arm leg break, but he's about to be no-balled for chucking. He shouldn't do that, I agree. Also, a shingle beach gives you inflated ideas about your ability to turn the ball.
What Dave was doing: It looks like the typical "holding the Eiffel Tower by the fingers" photo, re-engineered with a brainiac in the place of a giant steel radio tower/eyesore. He's thumping you on the head!
He is explaining how mobility of arms of deinonychosaurids shows that they played volleyball. :]
He's showing you how he sunk the trey at the buzzer to win the game. You look like you've heard the story a million times already. It looks like you updated your bio on the sidebar.
Dave's demonstrating how the trio of a sauropod's throat tentacles (normally used to drag bundles of greenery down their absurd throats) would look hanging out of its mouth: "Cthulhuposeidon eldritchii goes like this".
He's throwing a sign, fool.
We're getting recycled posts while you work on something interesting, Gypsy Rose Naish.
You're all wrong. He is trying to break the world endurance record by dancing "The Funky Gibbon" for 48 hours non stop....
I've turned this photo into a caption competition, so get over to my blog for your entry! Also, the real answer for what was going on in the photo is revealed.
Im not sure and I know Im not allowed to say if I was.
Hes saying "This much beach has eroded in the past year"
It is the IOW, after all.
Dave is as Dave does.
Ahh - memories. I haven't seen that site since I visited it on a field trip with Steve Hutt and Phil in 1989. Well Phil anyhow. Steve got some of the way there, then sat down to read a Thomas Hardy novel, which seemed to be a perfectly agreeable way to pass the time, perhaps more so than clambering over eroding cliffs to try to find bones.
I live on Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, a place which shares much with the Isle of Wight. We have Cowes, and Ventnor, and last week I had a counter meal in the Isle of Wight Hotel over here.
We also have lower Cretaceous fauna, at nearby Inverloch, where ornithopods bearing similarities to Hipsilophodon are well represented.
Merry Christmas all
I think all browsers have auto-fill-in these days, even though the switch is sometimes a bit hidden. I'm just saying.
David: My browser auto-fills my name on every other blog comment box, but not on TetZoo, dunno why. I have to type it in every damn time. Maybe it's the same for Dvae.
Nope, no auto-fill. And anyone who has had an e-mail from me will note that about half the time I do that. There are plenty of blog comments and posts out on the web by Dvae Hone.
It has to be somewhere. What browser do you use?