Popular Articles for the Journally Challenged

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

  Just a few recent articles (again, I wouldn't call
them papers):

  In Natural History, a reader wrote concerning the
12/99-1/00 cover in the 2-3/00 issue:

  Lang, G.H. 2000. Dinosaur stress. Natural History
109 (2): 8.

  [remarks on the prescence of a fatigue fracture in
the third mt of the *Deinonychus foot* on the cover,
suggesting very active use of the foot as a running
mechanism (the mt-III is the pedal axial digit, and
would be the primary motivator in walking, running,
etc.)]

  Zimmer, C. 2000. Calling a bluff. Natural History
109 (8): 20-22.

  [avians have some interesting physiologies, but none
so unique, perhaps, as in the evolution in some birds
on supra-elongated trachea, herein demonstrated as
sonic resonaters for adding timbre to voice, making
the birds seem bigger than they really are. This
recalls an abstract in the 1999 _JVP_ set (19 (suppl.
to 3): 45A). wherein Henry Gale has performed some
allometric volume studies on dinosaurian breathing
(through oral and nasal media) relative to monitor
lizards.]

  Svitil, K.A. 2000. Dinosaur on the grow. Discover
April, 2000: 22.

  [remarks on the Horner et al., 1999, paper in
_Paleobiology_ (not naming it, but I've read it) and
refering to the series of abstracts in the same _JVP_
as above by Horner, de Riqles, and Padian et al,s.
{Horner, Padian, and de Riqles (53A); Padian, Horner,
and de Riqles (67A); and de Riqles, Padian, and Horner
(70A-71A)} concerning the rapid growth of juvenile and
baby dinosaurs, using some ornithischians
(*Hypacrosaurus* in the _Paleobiology_ paper) and
theropods as test cases. Makes for some good, but slow
reading -- I am not a metabolic biologist]


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Jaime "James" A. Headden

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