Tag: deinonychus
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Deinonychus Changed Our Understanding of Dinosaurs
SciTechDaily has an interesting story about how the discovery of Deinonychus changed our view of dinosaurs. John Ostrom found the first Deinonychus back in 1960’s. In 1969, he published a paper describing Deinonychus, which means “terrible claw”. That paper raised many questions about current assumptions about dinosaurs and refueled the debate on which animals birds…
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PBS Eons: The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
PBS Eons has a new video. This one is about Deinonychus, whose name means horrible hand. From end to end, its forelimbs alone measured an incredible 2.4 meters long and were tipped with big, comma-shaped claws. But other than its bizarre arms, very little material from this dinosaur had been found: no skull, no…
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PBS Eons: The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
PBS Eons has a new episode about Deinonychus and that endless question… Were dinosaurs warm or cold blooded? In 1964, a paleontologist named John Ostrom unearthed some fascinating fossils from the mudstone of Montana. Its discovery set the stage for what’s known today as the Dinosaur Renaissance, a total re-thinking of what we thought…
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Happy Birthday, John Ostrom – The man who saved the dinosaurs!
For 30 years, Ostrom steadily and meticulously refuted critics of his theories. He is shown here in the Yale Peabody Museum, near a Deinonychus in mid-leap. Deinonychus in full sprint, as drawn by Robert Bakker ’67—a student of Ostrom’s and a crusader for the view that dinosaurs were active, dynamic animals. The drawing appeared in Ostrom’s 1969 paper…
