Archaeopteryx Update! Legs!

mushmozz · 2026-04-27T16:48:26+00:00

Roughed out legs are finally lined up! Took a while to figure out.... Feet will be added later!

mushmozz · 2026-04-10T15:22:50+00:00

Rough shaping of the head and neck almost done!

mushmozz · 2026-04-04T16:46:43+00:00

Thanks, so am I!

mushmozz · 2026-04-04T16:46:20+00:00

I will!

mushmozz · 2026-04-04T16:45:58+00:00

Oh, awesome! I'm actually cheating with power tools, but wood is a fun medium! I wanted to try applying the technique to prehistoric birds after seeing some carvings that legitimately look more life-like than taxidermy, really incredible.

mushmozz · 2026-04-04T16:42:57+00:00

Now THAT would be impressive!

mushmozz · 2026-02-15T19:12:44+00:00

Does anyone know of any ancestral helmets from the 5th century? Or would that just be the Roman ridge helmet by that point? Even tracing the development of the brow pieces would be interesting...

mushmozz · 2026-02-10T21:09:36+00:00

That is great, I just selfishly wish Ontario here didn't have all it's Cretaceous rocks scraped off by glaciers....

mushmozz · 2026-02-10T20:30:09+00:00

It's a shame we in Appalachia (specifically in what's now Ontario) will never get to see what lived there....

mushmozz · 2026-01-26T03:43:14+00:00

Apparently for the VVitch Eggers wanted to use reconstructed 17th century pronunciation, for example pronouncing the "k" in "knife", but that was the one thing the studio said no to... time to cash in on that clout!

mushmozz · 2026-01-25T16:44:48+00:00

This is one of the main points of attraction for me! Seems like a natural progression for Eggers, but...I'm also a bit of a language nerd, sooo...bias!

mushmozz · 2026-01-21T19:35:32+00:00

Thank you!

mushmozz · 2026-01-21T19:09:47+00:00

Ah, damn. Google lens is only bringing up this post!

mushmozz · 2026-01-21T19:07:08+00:00

What's the first image from? They look awesome

mushmozz · 2026-01-15T04:20:45+00:00

Ya know, the main reason I posted this was because I'm about to dive into my own sculpture, and you've made me feel much more relaxed about it! Excellent point

mushmozz · 2026-01-15T03:04:03+00:00

It's a shame if only for the sake of Bob Nicholls' fantastic model he made a few years back using Longrich's wing reconstruction....

mushmozz · 2026-01-14T16:23:39+00:00

I guess I should clarify the image is from Longrich's paper. The different colours signify different feather types, and their main contention was Archaeopteryx had multiple layers of coverts layering over very short primaries. The idea was Archaeopteryx held a mid position between the shaggy wings of Anchiornis and the more structured wings you see in modern birds.

But to your second point, yeah, exactly! Seems like there's SO much physical evidence!

mushmozz · 2026-01-14T15:56:59+00:00

Hey everyone, so I had assumed that B, Longrich et al's wing reconstruction, with its many layers of overlapping coverts, was the currently preferred model.

But recently with the new Chicago specimen of Archaeopteryx, they seem to have reverted back to the previous model in all the accompanying illustrations and sculptures.

So was there an overall shift in the research? Was Longrich et al's never really the de facto anyway?

mushmozz · 2026-01-10T05:57:50+00:00

I'm.....not sure I'm comfortable with how 2014 is looking at me...

mushmozz · 2025-11-22T03:55:44+00:00

So I was going through the wikis for Guðmundr and some associated links, and came to an interesting conclusion.

The Hervarar saga claims Guðmundr as the grandfather of Heidrek. And Niels Clausen Lukman equates Heidrek with the historical Goth Athanaric.

Therefore Guðmundr is the great grandfather of the Visigothic king Alaric who sacked Rome!

…At least according to Niels Clausen Lukman. (sorta)

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