So to change things up a little, I decided to write a brief article on the Blue lava of Java Island. It is such an interesting phenomena that I had to write a few lines about it. The land of really good coffee also has an interesting volcano behind it and it is well worth the read.
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So I was getting ready to put together the article on the petrified forest and came across a glitch in the timelines. While I am not an expert, I do try to get things as accurately as possible and one of my sources of information verified the timeline was wrong. The article in question on Petrified Redwoods is on hold until I get the story corrected. In the mean time, we will be exploring articles on ancient sounds, blue lava, and telescopes online.
The next article we will feature is on re-creating the sounds and maybe even the smells of the dinosaur period. By going back and understanding the flora and fauna, we can get an idea of what it smelled like. Through recreating casts of throat and ears of the dinosaurs, we can get an idea of what they sounded like. I hope that it will make up for the skipped article on petrified redwoods. We will get to that article at a later time. This is going to be an exciting week. We are starting off with a look into the 1870s Bone Wars where a new interest in Paleontology brought about new discoveries in the world of Dinosaurs. With those discoveries came debates as to what they really found and a there was very little detail into the classification system at that time. It took several years, going over several sites, and several specimens to come up with a comprehensive classification system.
At last, after years of speculation, debate, and arguing over data a computer analysis of several specimens revealed that not only are Brontosaurus a separate species…they are a separate Genus from the Apatosaurus! An excellent article, A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) by Emanuel Tschopp, Octávio Mateus, and Roger B.J. Benson proves beyond a doubt that the separation between Brontosaurus excelsis and Apatosaurus Ajax are so dissimilar that they are a separate Genus. This week, we are writing an article about how the Brontosaurus was almost lost because the original finding of Brontosaurus was actually a mixture of two different dinosaur species. It was hard to find an actual head of a Brontosaurus as opposed to the Apatosaurus. So it was concluded that they were similar enough to be the same. Further inspection revealed that there was such a difference in the hip bones as well as other areas to make them separate. Join us as we go back through the dates of the original findings, what happened to the mishmash of bones, and the debates over the years that kept Brontosaurus from emerging victorious. As Dr Tschopp said himself, putting the Thunder back into the dinosaur. Pulling from the original paper on the new discovery, I am going to attempt to bring together the history and the science into one article on how the Brontosaurus was discovered and re-discovered. It will lead us into a month-long Bone Wars struggle as we see two other species that were classified as the same. It also opens up the discussion of Dinosaur classification. We all know about the Kingdom/Phylum/Order from grammar school for modern day animal classification. Now with several specimens to go over, we are discovering that the prehistoric world had their own classification. If you would like to know where to find more about their locations, check out our article on Path of the Dinosaurs. It covers some of the dinosaur sites throughout the Midwest and where you can get information. Also watch for our new book being released in September on the Dinosaur sites that has more sites to discover and goes into detail on the dinosaur species that are found there. We will be embarking on a new series. It is going to take our expedition theme and follow the path of the dinosaurs. I will be starting in my home state and traversing the edges of the Great Western Waterway ending in Dickerson, North Dakota. Keep in mind that this will be covering more then the history of the Dinosaurs. It will be a crossover from our expedition article and cover the journey to the site. Because it will be expedition themed, we will be covering camp sites and campstove cooking as well. Stay tuned and join us as we travel the path of the Dinosaurs...
Several things have come across my desk this week, but a couple of them need a closer look. Look for an article on Expeditions this next week. It will be an in depth look at some of the expeditions in the past that helped prove historical places did exist and helped bring history to life. It will be a look modern day expeditions, putting together an expedition, and why. So many people don't seem to have the desire to seek out the unknown...but trust me its worth it! Treasure is in the history! Learning new things, proving, and disproving...these are the real treasures! So we are going to devote an article on a modern day expedition!
Also, we ran into a number of things coming out about recent dinosaur finds that may require a road trip! So we maybe doing a first hand expedition and check these places out. Look for updates on where and when and what we will be doing! |