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- Origins of the serpent cult and Bhāguri’s snake installation from the Sāmaveda tradition
- Two simple stotra-s, sectarian competition, and the Varāha episode from the archaic Skandapurāṇa
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- RV 10.78
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Tag Archives: dinosaurs
The shape of dinosaur eggs
Readers of these pages will know that we have a special interest in the geometry of ovals. One of the long-standing problems in this regard is: what is the curve that best describes the shape of a dinosaurian egg? While … Continue reading
Frustrations and ramblings ensuing from Cretaceous amber
Time and again I have been frustrated by the inability of Hindus to make the most of the riches that are available in their own land or right next to them. One such case is that of Cretaceous amber from … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged amber, birds, buddhism, dinosaurs, elektron, fossil, Hindu, kavI, kAvya, poetry
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Chilesaurus
We have learned emphatically in the past 25 years that morphology is not the best guide for phylogeny. Yet we currently have no options when it comes to long dead forms from the Mesozoic. In the least, we can comfort … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific ramblings
Tagged archosaurs, Chilesaurus, dinosauriformes, dinosaurmorpha, dinosaurs, herbivory, tetanuran
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Tyrannosaurs of the south redux: megaraptorans as tyrannosaurs?
Shortly after we had reached the mlechCha-land we read an abstract of a presentation in a meeting on vertebrate paleontology where Argentinian scientists reported the discovery of a large theropod (~6m long) with huge claws. At that point those claws … Continue reading
Dinosaurian endothermy
Modern dinosaurs are endothermic but were the extinct Cenozoic dinosaurs endothermic? If so were the Mesozoic dinosaurs endothermic? Modern mammals are endothermic, were the extinct Cenozoic mammals endothermic? Were the Mesozoic mammals endothermic and what about the Permian stem mammals … Continue reading
On feathers, fleas and big stem birds
Should the Mesozoic dinosaurs have been depicted with feathers or not? This question seems to have been asked by very few people until the last 15 years. Of course we had Robert Bakker and Gregory Paul presciently do this, but … Continue reading
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Tagged beta-keratin, birds, developmental biology, dinosaurs, evo-devo, feathers, fleas, keratin, mecoptera, paleontology, scales, siphonoptera, Yutyrannus
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