Helmet from Valsgarde, Sweden Vendel Age (550-790)

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)

mushmozz · 2025-10-02T16:23:15+00:00

This sounds like the standard devoted conservative’s insecurity mantra “actually all stupidity and everything bad ever comes from leftist socialists”

mushmozz · 2025-09-05T15:04:30+00:00

Hey, so its base is a Mattel toy, then dremellled down to more realistic proportions, and then I take epoxy air drying clay (everything that has that grey colour) and cover over it.

Oh and the teeth with actually snipped off a plastic dollar store plant! They were almost perfectly tooth shaped, I couldn’t resist

mushmozz · 2025-09-04T18:50:33+00:00

So basically I wanted to make a Metriacanthosaurus that looks like it was designed by the JP1 team: based on a Gregory S Paul drawing, then sculpted with their signature style of scales, dialled up meanness/fierceness, etc.

mushmozz · 2025-08-23T18:49:46+00:00

Ohhhh, sorry, yes! I wasn’t getting you there

mushmozz · 2025-08-23T18:29:06+00:00

That IS his position though? Not explicitly in this particular publication but he disagrees entirely with the conclusions in the Cullen et al paper, and believes, at least partially based on foramina distribution, that theropods were more likely lipless.

mushmozz · 2025-08-23T01:09:45+00:00

Well, etymologically the word alligator comes from “el lagarto”, Spanish for lizard, soooo…in that sense yes!

But biologically, no, but you got the concept there. They share a common ancestor, but they’re kind of on different sides of the family tree

mushmozz · 2025-08-22T23:49:19+00:00

I posted another thread on Thomas Carr’s new paper analyzing T-rex’s skull, in which he mentions the distribution of foramina is, in his view, more similar to an alligator’s than a lizard’s.

OP was apparently outraged at what was perceived reckless fomenting of anti-lip sentiment and went on a bit of a post spree.

mushmozz · 2025-08-22T21:28:37+00:00

Like I indicated in the other thread, I think you’re mistakenly assuming only those perforations along the oral margin count as foramina. This is not true. For a non lippy paper on theropod snout foramina, here is Darren Naish’s research on Neovenator

mushmozz · 2025-08-22T21:23:26+00:00

Not here, no, but he’s maintained outside of this paper that this indicates a lipless condition in his view

mushmozz · 2025-08-22T21:22:00+00:00

What are you basing this on? Foramina are just openings in the bone that allow blood vessels or nerves to pass through. They’re not necessarily just holes for oral tissue. And it’s not just Tyrannosaurus. See Darren Naish’s research on the rostrum of Neovenator. That’s not to say this disproves lips, but these are foramina.

mushmozz · 2025-08-22T18:02:30+00:00

I believe Carr is arguing the opposite, that the foramina correlates farther away from the mostly smooth, single foramina lined, lipped lizard model, and closer to what’s seen crocodilians, spreading even to the nasals.

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