Palaeontologist: Dinosaur Footprints – Biomechanics – Simulation
Being a computery type of palaeontologist, a lot of what I do requires pretty specialist software, and ideally pretty beefy hardware. Being from Yorkshire, I begrudge paying the exceedingly large amounts of money that a lot of the professional software packages demand. But there are better reasons for my thriftiness – using freely available software... Continue Reading →
This is kind of a duplicate of the previous post, but as the blog's still early, I'm taking the opportunity to explore post options! The Hippo paper is now assigned volume and page numbers and officially can be found here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018214002193 Unofficially, it can also be found here, and here. I promise this blog eventually... Continue Reading →
Fossil Swimming Hippo TracksThis paper isn't quite out yet, but it's showing in google scholar, so I guess it's worth putting up on my [non-promoted] blog. Matthew Bennett, at the University of Bournemouth led on this one, in which we describe possible hippo swim tracks from the Koobi Fora footprint site in Kenya (site of ancient... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jWNb8QxPb4 This is probably my favorite video made by the press, describing the research my colleagues and I recently published in PLOS ONE. In 1941, Roland T. Bird excavated a large section of trackway, in which a large theropod and sauropod appeared to be moving in the same direction at about the same time. When... Continue Reading →
Prof. Peter L. Falkingham 