Jurassic Limusaurus China Paleontologist. - 4:15 PM, Jun. 24, 2009 |
| A new dinosaur called Limusaurus has been discovered in China, from the Jurassic period.
It has hands that are very similar to the structure of birds' hands.
The similarity is that bird's wings are made of the second and third finger of the hand.
This dinosaur has diminished front claws where the second and third finger are dominant.
Paleontologists are touting this as more definitive proof of the relationship to birds and dinosaurs.
All this is well, great, and it's kind-of beside the point.
Birds were well established by the late Jurassic, with Archaeopteryx.
All this change must have happened in the early Jurassic and even in the Triassic.
What's great about the Triassic is that we have all of the definitive forms of dinosaurs, pterosaurs,
ichthyosaurs, and others, so why not look for birds there as well?
If we only find dinosaurs, then perhaps birds are a Jurassic dawning. That's cool, too... "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Saturday, Venice Eco Fest June 27, 2009 - 12:26 PM, Jun. 23, 2009 |
| In four days, The Venice Eco-Fest is going to have a great time with me.
"Ron Schmidtling plays with Rexy the T-rex and it really goes to town on little kids.
We have a great time, and nobody gets eaten."
I play at 3 pm, in the children's area, which is next to the children's playground at Venice Beach.
It should be easy to find. We'll see. I hope they have parking for me.
It will be a great day all day, since so many eco-friendly projects will be there.
I am happy to support and promote International Humanities Center.
This is going to be fun fun fun.
i will play Canalization for the first time, and also show the 4Rs song.
And please visit the 4Rs booth - kids learn reusing paper with origami.
"Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Dinosounds and Steve Irwin, the Croc Hunter - 2:02 PM, Jun. 19, 2009 |
| There I was, all working on making a new revision for the Dinosounds book, so I
listened to it once again and realized a weird thing.
In "Aborigines in the Pleistocene", and in "Anomalocaris", I rag on Crock Hunter.
I do Steve Irwin impressions, and not that good.
I'm not sure I want to put this out again, now after his death.
It really kind-of makes fun of him.
Not really what I want to be known for, and it was only timely back in the day.
Now what? That's four songs that I can't put in to the new version for little kids.
May as well do an entire new book...
Hey, how about Eco-Saurus? Duh! "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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climate change and the United States Government - 11:25 AM, Jun. 17, 2009 |
| More bizarre is the fact that finally the government is acknowledging Global Climate Change.A new map of Louisiana shows what we can expect as water temperatures rise. "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Antidiluvean era, Christians and the Environment - 1:28 PM, Jun. 13, 2009 |
| A friend of mine from Long Beach, Mississippi, asked me about a term I used in a description of photos from my local field trips. I used the term "Antidiluvean".
It means "before the flood", referring to Noah's flood.
Now, most scholars consider this to be Pleistocene age, or older- Mammoths, mastodons, sabre-tooth cats.
I like the term. It's now used when talking about anceint Mu or Atlantis-
Those bad people that got wiped out by God, because they developed their civilization recklessly.
Anyway, the end of the Pleistocene was horrific, with disastrous floods all over the place, rising sea levels, and entire cities swamped. Why? Because the ice sheets in Canada and elsewhere melted.
That's a fact. And, it's a moral lesson we need to heed.
If the icecaps melt any more, the oceans could rise up to 300 feet.
No more coastal towns. Millions of buildings destroyed. Souls lost to the waves.
All Christians should be rampant environmentalists.
"Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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dinosaur puppets- Mickey Mouse cute or Tommy Chong cute? - 11:52 AM, Jun. 12, 2009 |
| Dinosaurs are really great beings that have power.Dinosaur puppets also have a power. The design is really sensitive when considering the eyes.I have a dinosaur puppet named "rexy". Every cute dinosaur is named "rexy".At least mine is a t-rex. Anyway, its eyes are small black dots, kind-of neutral like the Simpsons' eyes.He can be all kinds of things due to how I make him interact- the neutral eyes allow a wide variety of emotions.There is anoter dinosaur that someone offered to me to use, but the eyes are big and "cute". Like Mickey Mouse.I finally realized what voice he could have- with big cute goofy eyes, he reminds me of Tommy Chong.That's the voice I'll use. "Wow, dude, everything's cool. Chill out!" "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Dinoguy at the Venice Eco-Fest June 27th, 2009! 3pm! - 11:32 AM, Jun. 11, 2009 |
| I really struggled against doing a concert at the Venice Eco-Fest on June 27th, 2009.
There was this wedding for my bass player and fellow scinetist at the Getty Museum.
Emily and I are playing classical music for the wedding. It's the same day.
Now, I practice guitar almost every day, generally folk stuff or rock stuff.
Classical is a whole nuther creature! It's hard! I really have to practice every day!
The wedding is in the morning. I wrangled with the God of Time, and he said- Go!
So, It's a whirlwind tour. Classical in the morning, a quick toast to the new couple,
Then off to the Venice Eco-Fest to the kids at the playground on the beach.
The organizers have a big stage just for me, with great sound, and I'll be there.
Will you? I hope so!
"Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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dino lab II - on the Science channel? - 1:33 PM, Jun. 9, 2009 |
I love seeing great CG dinosaurs. Nothing makes me happier than CG dinosaurs being wonderful and acting like real animals. Sometimes it's fun also to have dinosaurs and humans interact. It's perfect for the sci-fi channel. However, on the SCIENCE channel? I expect science on the science channel. Dino lab II is what I watched last night. Dino lab II is riddled with hand-waving. Nobody knows how dinosaurs interacted. It's all speculation. I'm as happy as the next guy to come up with wild ideas about how a mommy dino feeds her young. It's great to wonder if two male stegosaurs would attack each other on sight. It's just that I call it "Jurassic Park", and it should air on the "let's play make-believe" channel. On the other hand, congrats to getting a dino show on TV at all. It ain't easy! "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Dinosaurs, diamonds, dudes- dames? - 12:10 PM, Jun. 6, 2009 |
| The real reason a guy does blogs is to score.Why else do it? It's all about rock and roll girls, and girls like dinosaurs...don't they?Have dudes been mistaken? Oh, wow, girls aren't after dinosaurs, they like diamonds!That's a different "D" word. Wait a minute. Where do dinosaurs and diamonds come together? In the ground!
In Arkansas, there is a diamond mine, and north of that is a blastoid locality.That's a pretty cool coincidence. Do girls like blastoids? Kinda'...Well, it's all digging in the ground. Score, right? However, I saw the dudes that dig in those mines. They ain't pretty. It's the guys that cut the stone, and then show it to the girls that score. Whatever-Wrap a blastoid in diamonds- spiffy, sparkly, shiney! http://www.craterofdiamondsstatepark.com/digging-for-diamonds/ "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Utah dinosaur chillin' - dilophosaur resting trace - 1:09 PM, Jun. 5, 2009 |
| When dinosaurs are shown as bird-like, the creators can go too far. I would never make a dinosaur look too much like a peacock. That's pure speculation.Sometimes, we all need to get some perspective in the process.No one can say how a dinosaur re-acted to a situation, so what can we say?There are tracks and traces dinosaurs, so we can observe the record of theiractions in stone and that is the most we can say for real. There are running tracks, walking, and...A recent discovery in southern Utah revealed the resting trace of a theropod-a meat-eating dinosaur. What was cool was we could finally see how the creature held its arms.Mainly paleontologists had thought that a theropod could hold its hands like grasping rotating hands.In the stone preserved was the imprints of a Dilophosaur-type theropod, andit held its front claws perpendicular to the ground, facing inwardlike in clapping position. That's real evidence to show how dinosaurs held their front claws, so now, when artists do their reconstructions, they can take this into account. Artists like me...here's the link:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41389/title/Dinosaur_handprints_reveal_birdlike_arm_anatomy
"Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Thoughts on the new fossil primate - lemur or ape? from Messel, Germany - 12:38 PM, Jun. 2, 2009 |
It is fascinating that so many people are into the new discovery from Messel, Germany. The fingernails are a wonderful distinguishing feature for the creature. I had no idea that lemurs had claws. This is interesting that we have a separation between lemurs and apes in the Eocene. There are actual ape fossils from North America in the Eocene, though they are mainly in the form of isolated teeth. I have never found one, though. They are practically considered micro-fossils.
What I love is that it brings the fossil community into the public eye. Evolution mechanisms are still a mystery, though we are learning more and more each day.
I'm not sure dinosaurs and lemurs lived together in a true sense of the word...
New fossil trips on the horizon are in the works. Stay tuned! "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Dino-shirt girl of Dinosounds and T-rex... - 1:39 AM, May. 10, 2009 |
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Anvil business card. Design by Jimmy Burril and Ronnie Schmidtling - 2:08 PM, May. 4, 2009 |
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Songs from Next Window (aka ANVIL), Long Beach, Mississippi - 5:23 PM, Apr. 28, 2009 |
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"Dino Guy recorded three songs from the Next Window era: No More Than The Rain, The Right Thing To Say, and The French Have A Word For It. It's especially cool to hear the first two because they never got a proper demo treatment, and were only played live a handful of times."
I recorded these songs last year as a tribute to the writer and co-founder (along with Jimmy Burril) of Next Window, Brian Huddell. It's great to work on music by a powerful writer, and I'm glad he liked them enough to post them.
Weirdly enough, we called ourselves "Anvil" until we found the other band had put out an album. "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Next Window- Ron's first band - 2:07 PM, Mar. 10, 2009 |
CLICK ON THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFrwTcCPOSQ
Which one's Dino-guy? "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Dino-guy in the news - 3:00 PM, Nov. 25, 2008 |
The band, "Getty Rocks of Love" played at UCLA for an environmental event.
http://dailybruin.com/news/2008/nov/24/music-and-environment/
The local band The Getty Rocks also performed at the event. Ron Schmidtling, the leader of the band and a UCLA geology alumnus, described the connections between the creative arts and environmental issues as a continuum. “There’s art, there’s science, there’s construction. Nothing is in a compartment – everything flows from one to the next,” he said. Schmidtling’s songs contain lyrics directly about the environment. It’s an approach that he believes can help get the issues into people’s consciousness. “I think it can go one more step if somebody is learning the lyrics to the song and singing along,” he said. "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Blastoids from the Chisum Quarry, Oklahoma - 5:34 PM, Oct. 2, 2008 |
I had a chance to enjoy fossil hunting in the Oklahoma sun in August. What a joy to sweat until you're almost unconscious. Thank goodness the blastoids were plentiful. Pentremites rusticus. My namesake. So happy to finally discover these specimens in the wild, outside of a museum or university lab. I had a chance to drive from Mississippi to Los Angeles, and so I took the chance to drive up the Mississippi River, through Arkansas to the 40 Freeway (Route 66), and on to the blastoid site outside of Gore, Oklahoma. Dennis Swing met me there, and we had a wonderful time searching for blastoids and vertebrates. More to come... "Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Getty Rocks at the Getty Center, Brentwood, CA - 7:15 PM, Aug. 24, 2008 |
"Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Dino-guy concert at Malaga Cove, Palos Verdes, CA - 3:41 PM, Aug. 24, 2008 |
"Dino-guy" Ron Schmidtling |
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Getty Rocks at the Getty Underground - 3:35 PM, Aug. 24, 2008 |
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