Evidence for Avian Intrathoracic Air Sacs in a New Predatory Dinosaur from Argentina

The Online Laboratory of Kevin Zelnio referenced this article in "What Ever Happened to PLoS Systematics?" on 02 Nov 2009 at 06:28 GMT

"Taxonomists move 2.718 times faster than ICZN, neither move fast enough. In May of 2008 I enthusiastically lauded PLoS ONE for publishing their first open access paper that described some new species of ants. It has been a year and half since then, hav..."

Paul Sereno referenced this article in "Wedel’s misleading, ad hominem critique" on 18 Nov 2008 at 15:56 GMT

"Matt Wedel offers a misleading, longwinded, ad hominen critique of a paper I wrote with colleagues on the new theropod dinosaur, Aerosteon riocoloradensis, and the significance of its pneumatic features. Some personalized aspects of the commentary and erroneous claims push the limits of the “good practice” guidelines posted for commentary in this journal."

Tetrapod Zoology referenced this article in "Unhappy with Aerosteon" on 10 Oct 2008 at 09:10 GMT

" If you've been keeping an eye on the newswires you'll have seen that a very exciting new theropod dinosaur was described about a week ago now: Aerosteon riocoloradensis Sereno et al., 2008, an allosaurid allosauroid from the Santonian Anacleto..."

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week referenced this article in "The Aerosteon saga, Part 2: Overinflation and undercitation" on 06 Oct 2008 at 06:03 GMT

"In the last post I introduced Aerosteon, which has been touted as providing the first solid evidence for bird-like air sacs in non-avian dinosaurs, and I explained a little about how we know what we think we know about dinosaur air sacs. Aerosteon is l..."

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week referenced this article in "The Aerosteon saga, Part 1: Introduction and background" on 06 Oct 2008 at 06:02 GMT

" Pneumatic dorsal vertebrae of Aerosteon (Sereno et al. 2008:fig 7) Big news this week: Sereno et al. (2008) described a new theropod, aptly named Aerosteon (literally, “air bone”), with pneumaticity out the wazoo: all through the vertebral..."

Greg Laden's Blog referenced this article in "Aerosteon riocoloradensis: A Very Cool Dinosaur from Argentina" on 29 Sep 2008 at 21:45 GMT

"Fossils of a newly discovered species of dinosaur -- a 10-meter-long, elephant-weight predator -- were discovered in 1996 along the banks of Argentina's Rio Colorado, and are now being reported after a long period of careful study. This dinosaur dates to about 85 million years..."

A Blog Around The Clock referenced this article in "Aerosteon riocoloradensis - the new dinosaur with hollow bones" on 29 Sep 2008 at 21:14 GMT

"I always get excited when Paul Sereno publishes a paper in PLoS ONE and today is one such day - his third paper in this journal within a span of less than a year (the first was the paper with..."