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Karrueche Tran Does Not Want To Give Up The Life She's Had With Chris Brown October 10. 2012 Karrueche Tran and Chris Brown Model and dancer Karrueche Tran is facing a dilemma. She does not want to give up the luxurious lifestyle of the high profile life she shared with woman beating R&B star, Chris Brown, who publicly broke up with her, to appease his other girlfriend, so-called singer Rihanna. Brown wants to be able to have his cake and eat it too, but it is clear he and Tran have feelings for each other. This is ticking off Rihanna. Rihanna Rihanna refers to herself as the love of his life and believes she is the same to him, but in the time he started dating Tran, he developed feelings for her as well. She is nicer and more eager to get along than Rihanna, who is known in the industry for being a violent, rude, egotistical witch. It's something she learned from mentor Madonna in Kabbalah and it has given both of them a bad name. Speaking of that, it's only a matter of time before Brown accidentally calls Rihanna by the wrong name... RELATED ARTICLES Rihanna Making Excuses To Friends For Chris Brown's Cheating Conduct Rihanna's Rip Off Movie Battleship Is Pronounced The Biggest Bomb Of 2012 Rihanna's Rip Off Movie Battleship Bombs Badly As Judiciary Report Boycott Is Successful Rihanna Had Sex With Ashton Kutcher And Was Spotted At His House Late Last Night Rihanna Fans Are Threatening To Kill Chris Brown's Girlfriend Karrueche Tran Rihanna Uses Mean Racial Slur In Reference To Chris Brown's Girlfriend Karrueche Tran (Photo) Rihanna Tweeting Chris Brown Pandering To Her Cheating Woman Beating Abuser Chris Brown Slams Rihanna As A Woman Everyone In The Industry Has Had Sex With Rihanna Cutting Up Cocaine On Her Bodyguard's Head In Public And Lying About It Is Disgraceful Chris Brown Showed Up In My Neighborhood Chris Brown Showed Up In My Neighborhood Again Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna And The Occult - Part 2 |
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Don't let a belt become a tourniquet
Quick. Count how many belts are in your closet.
Ten? Twenty? More?
If you're like us, you have hundreds. Thick, thin, leather, vinyl, plain and even plaid. If you have a macramé version, your age is showing — go directly to Goodwill, do not pass "Go."
The Fashion Police issued citations because our collection includes belts made from comic strips and license plates. We've even spent hours squinting while needle-pointing belts for our husbands. And we don't think we're the only gals who keep every single one of those cheesy cheap belts that come with dresses on cheap and cheesy hangers.
How did we end up getting lost in the Belt Jungle? Because we took a detour at Fashion Island, populated by stylists and skinny skinny models who look great with leather-cinched waistlines.
So buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Join us for QuirkOut moments and things women do to get this trend under their belt.
On "What Not to Wear," Stacy and Clinton teach us that to look good in our clothes, we don't actually have to have a waist (thank goodness, we lost ours at the Olive Garden years ago), we only need to create the "illusion" of a waist.
A belt is the best tool of the trade to transform us from SpongeBob SquarePants into a Barbie doll.
But what looks great in the mirror in the morning starts twisting, turning, falling and making you crazy enough to belt out, "Stop the Insanity." And that's just by the time you arrive at the office.
First it rides up to your belly, cutting off circulation and making you look like a cross between the Michelin man and Pam Anderson with emphysema. Or it slips down to your crotch, making you look like you forgot to leave the seatbelt in the car where it belongs.
The buckle moves to your left side, then you move it to your right, then you turn it all around. It's like doing a leather version of the "Hokey Pokey." But our QuirkOut advice is don't 'shake it all about" or the guy from accounting will think you're ready to go on a date with him after all.
Those of us who battle the bulge know the frustration with buying belts to fit at your waist, only to gain a few pounds and find you actually bought a tourniquet.
Jessica knows this struggle well and has come up with a QuirkOut solution.
She explains, "As my weight fluctuates, I store the belts in Goldilocks fashion. One box says "Belts — too big" and another box says "Belts — too small." The ones that are "just right" get to live in my closet until I break up with my boyfriend and go on a Haagen-Dazs binge. Then the "too bigs" come back to the closet and those in the closet go to "too small."
The only way we can improve Jessica's system is to add a note inside the "too small" box reminding her to lay off the porridge.
Jayelle Hughes, author of "Men Don't Matter" (which is a big hit at the divorce support group), does not like to repeat outfits. Even when it comes to her jeans. As a freelance writer who works from home, jeans are a staple. But even then, she wants to wear a different pair every day.
Her QuirkOut solution is simple. She leaves her belt in the last pair she wore, as a kind of signal flag that screams, "Danger. Do Not Repeat."
What a simple way to keep track. It makes us think that we should somehow label those ex-husbands in the same way. Sorry to hit below the belt, guys.


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The bearded stars of Duck Dynasty are asking for a big pay increase to return to A&E's top-rated series, and the salary standoff is holding up a fourth-season renewal of the show, sources tell THR.
The Robertson family, including brothers Phil and Si and Phil's sons, have seen their outdoorsman empire Duck Commander earn a small fortune thanks in part to notoriety from the hit reality series. Now they have banded together and -- represented by WME -- are angling to renegotiate their existing contracts. Sources close to the negotiation say the family is asking for more than $200,000 an episode from A&E and production company Gurney Productions to return for a fourth season, with additional raises for subsequent seasons.


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The first step in a structural overhaul is to raise the house up above grade. This allows air circulation underneath, which in turn alleviates many moisture-related problems and also makes access to plumbing and other house systems easier. I use three types of jacks: hydraulic bottle jacks, screw jacks, and hypoid gear jacks (see Figure 1).
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text: Anna Greenberg began her dance training at the Pasadena Dance Theater and attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where she was introduced to modern dance. With a BA in Dance, Choreography, and Children's Book Illustration from Hampshire College, she studied and performed with many inspirational and life changing teachers including Summer Lee Rhatigan, Cristian Burns, Cathy Nicoli, and Cynthia Young. She has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, and Rudy Perez. Anna is also performing with Dance Ceres and Venture Dance Project. Anna has been with SDC since 2009 and she's thrilled to continuing learning this beautiful dance form.


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I don't know if I should blame growing older, compounding cynicism, an impending mortgage, or my inflated sense of self worth for my reaction to Google's offer to buy my privacy. I expected I would think, "This is an outrage! Sirs and madams, let this corporate behemoth know we shall not be bought so easily!" instead of "Is that all I'm worth?"
I should disclose that I'm quite cavalier about letting any old Tom, Dick and Harry on the internet have access to my data. I would even go so far as to say that I could not care less about my privacy where data-gathering is concerned. With two exceptions.
First, if data gathered on me is not lumped into a mega 'big data' pile then we have a problem. For example, let's say that I give my address to a Mr Tom Google who notices that I happen to purchase my meats from my favorite butcher on Main Street. Mr Google in turn takes my address, lumps it into a giant excel sheet of addresses he has gathered from other customers who patronize the Main Street butcher and sells this mega list to a competing seller of meats across town on Walnut Street. I have no problem with this. It's removed from me, I'm just an address. While my identity can be reverse engineered with enough trouble, I trust that Tom Google is not going to be selling my information to someone who's going to be a bother.
Speaking of being bothered, if the data that has been collected on me causes a nuisance, my willingness to share takes disappears. Returning to meat selling, let's say that instead of friendly Tom Google we have outside the butcher Dick Facebook. Now Dick isn't a bad guy. He asks for my address, I kindly give it to him. Except now I have to sign up with the Walnut Street meat vendor to receive notifications about his latest sales. And then suddenly that meat vendor is in my face telling me how awesome his rib eye steak is and I'm wanting to take my fist to Dick's throat for getting me into this. While Tom plays it smart by getting my info and staying sly, Dick makes a fuss about it and make me think about how maybe I'm giving him more info than I should.
Now the third exception (I know I said there were two exceptions to not willingly giving up my data, but I've lied to you. The whole reason I wrote this post is because I thought of a third exception: I won't willingly give up my data if I know someone else might pay more for it.
I leave the butcher a third time and again, Tom Google asks me for some delicious data. He wants to know exactly what I bought but this time he's going to give me a $5 gift certificate to Harry Amazon's store across the street. "Wow," I think, "thanks Tom Google!" and happily flounce away.
Let's imagine one final, hypothetical trip to the butcher. This time, however, I notice that Harry Amazon is outside – and he's not offering a measly $5 gift certificate, but $10 and a %25 discount to his store. Tom Google doesn't want to pay any more than that so I give my data to Harry and flounce away even happier than before.
"Man," I think, "that Tom Google is a cheap bastard! Harry Amazon knows how to help a brother out!"
Now every time I go to the butcher I'm looking for a bigger better deal on the way out.
Of course, Google does not have much in the way of competition for buyers looking to gobble up my data. But I do wonder if maybe this is not the first step to a kind of public marketplace where privacy and data can be sold to the highest bidder. Where Tom Google, Dick Facebook, Harry Amazon and Jim Microsoft stand outside every shop in town and cajole every passerby with the best offers for their coveted information. And, so long as I stay relatively anonymous and don't get pestered, I'm willing to sell to the highest bidder.
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I got this book for my Ipod and can't stop listening. Very well written and simplistic explanation of how bird flu works.
One chapter explained the frightening phenomenon, why flu outbreaks start off as mild and become lethal later. I have never heard this before, but it seems that as the virus passes from person to person the virus adapts itself to us so that it can become a more efficient killer.
The first quarter of the book explains the state of American medicine at the turn of the 20th century. Ever wonder why Granny Clampett called herself a doctor? She likely had the typical level of training for the time.
The second quarter introduces the preparations taken before the war to ready for disease out break commonly expected in times of war. Cholera, measles, meningitis. Train cars were converted to Mobile laboratories, medications stockpiled, and over sized hospitals built. All these preps collapsed under the weight of this unexpected old enemy.
For those of the preparation mindset. This is a good read. If you can compare the packing of troops into ramshackle barracks, to todays apartment buildings, and inner cities. If you can compare the speed of transporting two million Doughboys around the globe in 1918 to the number of people who fly, today. Perhaps you can imagine today's medical "system" failing under a catastrophe such as bird flu. Then maybe you can see yourself someday in a situation where you have to survive under 1918 America conditions. This book can help with your plan.
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In 1918, a plague swept across the world virtually without warning, killing healthy young adults as well as vulnerable infants and the elderly. Hospitals and morgues were quickly overwhelmed; in Philadelphia, 4,597 people died in one week alone and bodies piled up on the streets to be carted off to mass graves. But this was not the dreaded Black Death-it was "only influenza." In this sweeping history, Barry (Rising Tide) explores how the deadly confluence of biology (a swiftly mutating flu virus that can pass between animals and humans) and politics (President Wilson's all-out war effort in WWI) created conditions in which the virus thrived, killing more than 50 million worldwide and perhaps as many as 100 million in just a year. Overcrowded military camps and wide-ranging troop deployments allowed the highly contagious flu to spread quickly; transport ships became "floating caskets." Yet the U.S. government refused to shift priorities away from the war and, in effect, ignored the crisis. Shortages of doctors and nurses hurt military and civilian populations alike, and the ineptitude of public health officials exacerbated the death toll. In Philadelphia, the hardest-hit municipality in the U.S., "the entire city government had done nothing" to either contain the disease or assist afflicted families. Instead, official lies and misinformation, Barry argues, created a climate of "fear... [that] threatened to break the society apart." Barry captures the sense of panic and despair that overwhelmed stricken communities and hits hard at those who failed to use their power to protect the public good. He also describes the work of the dedicated researchers who rushed to find the cause of the disease and create vaccines. Flu shots are widely available today because of their heroic efforts, yet we remain vulnerable to a virus that can mutate to a deadly strain without warning. Society's ability to survive another devastating flu pandemic, Barry argues, is as much a political question as a medical one.
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A life of crime always offers a lot more benefits than a life lived in a legal way, but it also has more risks. If you are looking for money and all the perks that come with them, then this is the best place where you can get them, but on the other hand you might not live free for long enough in order to enjoy all the wealth you accumulate in this time.
Nairobi is one of the best places you can go to in order to live, work and enjoy a normal life, but it is also the best place where you be sucked into such a life of crime. Even though it is very appealing and even though you may have a lot of benefits from it, there are a lot of Africa jobs that can offer you ways in order to achieve a lot of success.
The main problem people face when they turn to Africa jobs is that they have to work a lot in order to get to the place where they want to be and in their opinion they might not be paid enough for the effort they put. There are a lot of times when this may be the case, but you have to start at the bottom in order to appreciate life you have at the top.
Because people see this as mistreatment they are led to a life of crime, but even if it pays a lot on a short notice, it will also take its toll and you will be deprived of your freedom or of your life a lot sooner than you think. Stop seeing Nairobi as the best place to become an outlaw and start seeing it as the best launch ramp for your amazing success.
When you want to find the best Africa jobs in a city like Nairobi, one of best sources you can turn to for this is the web, but you have to choose your sources. Stop picking out the ones who will promise your wealth within a few weeks, because there is something dirty about them and look into the ones that you are able to flourish while doing.
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Spider-Man 2: A Conversation with Visual Effects Guru John Dykstra
The production designer, the costume designer and myself worked to make tentacles that could be created in reality, like puppets. Edge FX created how the puppets would work. Of course, [Sony Imageworks] animation director Anthony LaMolinara and the animators worked with us side by side as the puppets were being created - both the physical tentacles and the designs for the CG versions to make sure that we incorporated elements into them that would work for the animation. There was a really tough set of criteria that was placed in front of the animators with respect to creating the personality of these tentacles.
Of course, during the design phase, Alfred Molina, who had to wear these things, also had input. It was quite a collaboration with Sam, of course, as the arbiter of all the things that would be included in these tentacles. They took a long while. In some form or another, they were in development even past the beginning of principal photography.
EW: What were your criteria for when the tentacles would be puppets vs. CG?
JD: There were mechanical tentacles wherever the character had to come into intimate contact with them. If the tentacle had to grab him around the throat, or light his cigar and hold it to his mouth, or take off his sunglasses it was done with a puppet.
The tentacles were, variously, four feet long and 18 feet long, depending on what we needed them to do. We discovered that if we used the full-length tentacle we had to have three pieces. So if we had all four tentacles on the character, it would be him plus 12!
Generally speaking, the puppets were used in the close-ups and in the medium shots where the tentacles didn't have to be any more than three or four feet long. The CGI tentacles took over from that point on, for the most part.
EW: What were the most challenging aspects of doing the hand-offs between the puppets and the CG tentacles?
JD: There were lots of places where there would be a live-action puppet tentacle in the foreground that would go off-screen, and then come back on-screen as a CG tentacle. We had puppets and CGI mixed in the same shot. The trick was making them all look the same. And that was difficult.
Audiences are familiar with things like metal and rust. So making a CG version of something that was real, photographed on camera, and then combining them in the same shot was tricky. All of that CG stuff had to respond to light in the same way that the real objects responded to light.
Also, Doc Ock's tentacles did things that they couldn't do in reality. They had mechanical attributes that we couldn't have had in any real device. So there was a lot of stuff done with the animation that stepped beyond the bounds of the physics of the real world. That's the tough part of doing this stuff.
We had to make sure that the center of mass of the tentacle made sense. There was a huge amount of work that went into creating the characters of these tentacles, to make them be at once mechanical and organic. The tentacles had to look as though Doc Ock was controlling them with his brain. They were supposed to be tied directly to his hypothalamus: to be lower brain functions. The tentacles themselves were supposed to move as if they were extensions of his own physiognomy. Alfred loved working with the puppets. We often did a shot with the puppets and then did one without, in case we had to add the CGI. It was such a joy to be able to make these things do this crazy stuff that they couldn't ever possibly do. That's the best part of making movies!
EW: Were there any aspects of making this movie that took you by surprise?
JD: At the end of the movie, a climatic fight between Spider-Man and Doc Ock takes place on the pier, which for the most part was a miniature. We had miniature water when we photographed the miniature pier, and it was decided that we needed more activity. So we had to do CG water at the last minute. That was something that we had to develop and put into the shot over a very short period of time. Water is difficult because it doesn't scale worth a damn.


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"The idea that merely because you are born into privilege that automatically means you are against the welfare of the ordinary people, that's nonsense," he said.
Ghana had one of the fastest growing economies in the world in 2011. Oil was discovered in 2007 and the country began producing it in December 2010.
Throughout the capital, new condominiums are rising up next to slums and luxury cars creep along narrow alleys lined with open sewers. A mall downtown features a Western-style cinema and is packed on weekends with middle class families. At the same time shantytowns are cropping up, packed with the urban poor.
Polls show that voters are almost evenly split over who can best deliver on the promise of development.
Kojo Mabwa said that he is voting for Akufo-Addo, because he is impressed by his promise of free education. He dismissed critics that say the project is too ambitious. "There is money," he said. "(The ruling party) has done nothing for us. They are misusing our money."
Paa Kwesi, a 30-year-old systems analyst, said he doesn't think Akufo-Addo is making promises he can keep.
"He says he can do free education, but you have to crawl before you can walk. It's not possible," he said.
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If Morgan does not enter the game, it would be a sensible decision for John Beilein and his staff. A looming game this weekend versus Indiana will require as much frontcourt experience as possible for the Wolverines, and if Morgan can rest and recover for the IU contest, it might be better suited for Michigan. Plus, Morgan's absence means additional playing time for Mitch McGary and Jon Horford. In particular, UM has benefitted offensively when McGary is paired with the core lineup of Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr., Nik Stauskas, and Glenn Robinson III; MGoBlog.com crunched the possession statistics, and a lineup with McGary scores
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Robert Hale of Vineyard Haven recently received a Bachelor of Arts from Emory College of Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. Robert, son of Philip and Deborah Hale, was also named to the Dean's List for the spring 2008 semester.
Tonya Leonard of Vineyard Haven recently graduated summa cum laude at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Tonya received a Bachelor of Science in education studies.
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Jackson Run Bike to kindergarten.
Jackson Goldstone going to kindergarten. Huge drops and tricks
(Jul 5, 2010 at 10:25)
he is going to SHRED when hes older, not to mention he'll be able to footplant ANYTHING he wants to
(Jul 5, 2010 at 10:26)
this little shredder deserves VOD soooo bad, he shows so many people up and hes only going to get better, if this video doesnt make Video Of the Day i think i might have to shoot myself!
(Jul 6, 2010 at 21:33)
Even though he has clearly mastered this technique of push bike... Get him a real bike!!! Hes going to be killin' it one day.
(Jul 7, 2010 at 5:20)
He rips now. But if he doesn't get some pedals soon, he's gonna have a mangina in a few years.
(Jul 7, 2010 at 17:49)
somebody get this kid a crankset and he will be the next (whats the kids name who was 11 and could do a 360 whip or double whip or something like that?)
(Jul 8, 2010 at 12:19)
i think hes actually improved from before, he used to just look like everyother kid that someone video taped but now he has legit skills
(Jul 14, 2010 at 20:08)
pinkbike should make this VOD! i saw this and couldn't help but smile! cant wait to see what this kid can do in 5 years!
(Jul 17, 2010 at 11:57)
this kid is legit! all these tricks, at this age, on a push bike, with a pack on!
(Jul 19, 2010 at 15:56)
omg he is going to grow up to be one lil ripper. sick video man, you made me want one of those push bikes and im 14.....
(Jul 20, 2010 at 0:41)
Does this kid live in squamish? all the trails and the school are here
(Jul 20, 2010 at 1:11)
Thats sad, thats so sad ... this kid does No Footers better than me ... WAY better
we probably just seen the begining of an future rampage winner guys!!!
i DuN fink he Iz relly dahh gudd cuzz iff yeww luk he dusunt efen hav pedalks so how can he bee guud?!?!!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:34)
i dun finkk yurr relly dahh gudd att speeeling sheet...
so either learn to spell or stfu...
I do not think he really harbors that much natural talent, if you evaluate his performance, you will come to the conclusion that he does not even possess pedals, so in actual, how can he be that good?
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:41)
ahh, thank you for gracing us with some intelligence
The question you have to ask yourself is, could you do that at the age he is? Anyhow,we shall see how he progresses in the years to come, and then be-able to evaluate his true skill.
The question you have to ask yourself is, could you do that at the age he is? Anyhow,we shall see how he progresses in the years to come, and then be-able to evaluate his true skill.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:42)
Yeah he is actually really good, especially with those 360's, im just very bored here as its raining and i cant do anything productive.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:45)
he has little foot pegs, i think its great to see a kid of that age with the much riding cofidence, of he uses fis feet to push up on some jumps but come on the kid looks like 6 years old.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:47)
i think it's just where the swingarm pivot is, not actual pegs
but yes, great confidence for 6
but yes, great confidence for 6
(Jul 20, 2010 at 9:11)
yeah your right, there isnt actual pegs
(Jul 20, 2010 at 10:52)
wow this kid is way over obsessing about the weight on his bike; he has even taking the peddles and cranks off!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 11:30)
As good as he is now it's time to grow up and use pedals so he can become a man !
yeah he's good for his age but really he didnt use the bike to do any tricks or landings it was all his feet doin the work
(Jul 20, 2010 at 13:01)
I LOVE IT this is hilarious!!! wish i was that good when i was his age, watch out world, this dudes gonna own the bike scene whe he's all grown up lol
(Jul 20, 2010 at 13:11)
It was good but when he gets on a real bike he wont be able to do shit compared to what he done their, because he was using his legs to jump instead of actually using the bike to jump.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 13:16)
he will have a much better head start compared to every other kid, plus he was standin on the sides of the frame doin no-footers and stuff so he will have some tricks straight up
(Jul 20, 2010 at 14:51)
haha that 3tap on the speedbump was badass! and are you sure that water is safe? it looks kinda...dirty
(Jul 20, 2010 at 20:47)
why does everyone think he is so good, run bikes r only to get balance but whats so great about a kid who can do 360s if he hops on the ground can do no footers but dosn't have to find the pedals, but i have to say it is pretty cool that he is into biking so young and is passionate about biking and can ride around bowls but get him some pedals and he is gonna be badass comp for the upcoming pro's
(Jul 20, 2010 at 20:53)
im sorry^^ i dont want to discourage him because he is awsome im just saying he needs pedals
(Jul 21, 2010 at 5:55)
I agree with you on that shadowcranks, but i was just thinking that he doesnt have pedals so when he gets a real bike it will feel so much different for him and he wont be used to doing all the stuff he is doing now without the pedals cause it will be somuch easier using your feet to do everything.
And i dont know how you worked that one out jamesbigjumps.
(Jul 21, 2010 at 8:35)
surely if hes five he should be riding a proper bike by now, its sick that he can do all of this stuff but unless hes very small for his age, he should really be at the size to ride a normal kids bike.
He's a fucking tard. It takes no skill or ability to do this, all he is doing is squashing his tiny balls on a seat, he has no pedals therefore this is just glorofied walking, get him to a fucking doctors, i think hes a downie
(Jul 21, 2010 at 15:29)
the kid can ride with pedals...I met him at a BMX race and he rode his push bike around but when his race came around he hoped on his bmx bike and got second
(Aug 4, 2010 at 8:35)
He's either going to need pedals/cranks or a THOMPSON seat post really soon!!
(Aug 4, 2010 at 10:22)
If his parents can't afford a real bike or something, I will buy him one, he is just forming bad habits by still using the pushbike...
no he wont be a ripper because he dosent have pedals and hes five i think almost all of us could ride a real bike by then therefor he is just going to learn bad habit so he is just walking with something between his legs
(Aug 9, 2010 at 9:46)
what a little pinner, i dont care what that dick joeljsh just said, i dont think you were that good on your normal bike at 5, your probably not even that good now, so who cares if he doesnt have pedals, someone that good could easily learn
actually i am better than him now and it is pretty easy to walk with something inbetween your legs im not sure if you have tried on of those but i have and i can flat 540 tailwhip so... i dont see the point of walking with something between my legs...
(Aug 9, 2010 at 17:57)
"i dont see the point of walking with something between my legs" ...XD
Sucks for you then! The rest of us men do see the point of walking with something between our legs
Sucks for you then! The rest of us men do see the point of walking with something between our legs
(Jan 5, 2011 at 12:31)
I love how users of pinkbike encourage people to kill themselves just because a video should get VOD
(Oct 10, 2011 at 19:23)
nice but... BUY HIM A REAL BIKE GOD DAMN IT! cuz... YES HE CAN RIDE A REAL BIKE sorry it makes me mad
(Oct 10, 2011 at 19:29)
www.pinkbike.com/photo/7216490 and just like that, hes better than you
(Oct 11, 2011 at 19:11)
well thats a good news but whats the point of "and just like that, hes better than you"?
(Jun 20, 2012 at 19:14)
dude this kid is amazing! you guys should give him a bike with pedals and he will be better than a majority of riders 1-30 in age
(Jul 5, 2010 at 10:25)
Wouldn't some of those drops just murder his balls? Like I understand he's five but still...
(Jul 15, 2010 at 19:59)
No you see he drank that lake water because it has healing powers and therefore heals his balls ! Why else would a parent let his kid drink dirty lake water?
(Jul 17, 2010 at 8:50)
ya.. haha this was sick he isnt really scared of anything....ya but ya you day he will see a hair and will get scared and go for a ride and REALYY hurt himself haha
(Jul 20, 2010 at 6:22)
yea, if I were his parents, I'd be a little more concerned with that...
GET HIM SOME PEDALS. that will at least give his balls a bit of a break from landing those drops and sh!t
(Jul 20, 2010 at 11:53)
@kyman09 you have just said the best comment i have ever seen on pinkbike man
(Aug 4, 2010 at 9:39)
yeah, if he continues like that he wont be able to have any children to pass his skills onto
(Aug 7, 2010 at 9:01)
Fox should invest in some protective pampers. Then sponsor this kids balls!
(Jul 21, 2012 at 13:48)
He got balls, but he probably will never get his puberty vocal change
(Jul 5, 2010 at 17:10)
they need to make bikes like that for us older guys... great rider. questionable parenting when they let him drink the lake water
(Jul 8, 2010 at 21:29)
dude his mom let him ride his bike to school on his first day of kindergarden!! even though it wasn't real but still for the vid lol
PLEASE get that awesome little dude on a bike. Will he have to be dragging his 15-year-old knees on the ground before his parents get him to ride a bike? He's big enough to be on a 20" wheel bike.
(Jul 5, 2010 at 12:24)
why dont his parents just buy him a normal pedle bike hed be doing crazyer stuff
(Jul 20, 2010 at 3:06)
oW Awesome, this kid wil be the future of MTB, but at his age i rode on normal kids bike without support wheels (with 2 years and a half)But could not do tricks (Bad that my parents didn't supported me on the sport) Awesome KiD mine will be like him.
(Aug 8, 2010 at 4:41)
The kid can already ride a real bike and has already won competions, plus isnt it funny how every single post calling the kid shit is a 16 year old f*g boy who cant do shit himself so enjoys ripping on a 4/5 year old?
(Jul 10, 2010 at 9:39)
Great video. You should enter this in the Methow Valley Fall Bike Film Festival. It's a family-focused bike festival and I think people would really enjoy the video. bikethemethow.com for more information.
(Jul 5, 2010 at 11:38)
Jackson is rocking, I saw him at Burnaby Mountain Air Skills Park and he's killin it as usual! VOD
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:54)
Cute vid but this kid really needs a real bike. When your popping 360s and riding park I think you can handle pedals and brakes. Not really sure what the point of run bikes is anyway?
(Jul 20, 2010 at 9:16)
it teaches balance. that way the go from the strider to a real bike (no training wheels)
(Jul 20, 2010 at 14:00)
i know. my bro took off his trainers and got it right away. whatever, it's a good idea.
(Jul 21, 2010 at 7:35)
Good stuff. Guess I'm gettin old HA! Any who sweet video, can't wait to see this little guy progress, makes me smile.
(Jul 5, 2010 at 21:58)
this kid is going to be soo good .. i really think its about time you give him something to stand on though .. pegs .. maybe even pedals?? he can clearly ride a bike !!
(Jul 5, 2010 at 22:04)
definitely give that boy some pedals... he's being deprived of biking's full potential :p
(Jul 20, 2010 at 19:21)
I have never made comment on any VOD, but now I have to.
This young kid is full of life and so happy. Puts so big smile on my face.
My favourite video number #1.
This young kid is full of life and so happy. Puts so big smile on my face.
My favourite video number #1.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 12:38)
That was awesome. My 4yr old daughter now wants to ride a bike. Thanks Jackson and thanks to your family. Keep it up kid, riding is something you can do no matter how old you are.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 2:54)
i think he needs cranks and everything and then see how good he is yea great freckin amazing for his age but he should start to learn on a real bike
(Jan 4, 2011 at 16:15)
no lie this kid is definitely good on a push bike, but they need to get him onto a real bike. riding a push bike for to long will make learning a real bike harder. but this is still really cool
(Jul 20, 2010 at 9:38)
i was kinda annoyed at the start of the vid because i wanted to c someone shredding, then i realized he was
This kid is F**king DOPE
This kid is F**king DOPE
(Jul 20, 2010 at 1:28)
i can just see him at crankworks in 15 years time. still with out pedals, boosting off lips with his feet, throwing it down with cam mccaul. VOD!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 10:00)
If he is not running pedals in 15 years he won't have any balls left ... or feet
(Aug 4, 2010 at 6:43)
amazing video,, oh to live there let alone grow up there , lucky kid, agree he needs pedals thats got to be doing some damage , my boy started on a balance bike and they have no equal in learning to ride you dont need stabilisers at all but to do drops get pedals.
wicked video ...
(Oct 17, 2013 at 20:09)
dude I know that kid were really good friends and I was dirt jumping with him today and guess what grade 4 and he shreds like know fricking tomorrow. he still shreds that bike like nobody's business nice work jack.
from jack.m
(Jul 20, 2010 at 13:42)
screw Sam Hill. Ill buy whatever this kid is using for parts next year.. sponsor him now.
(Dec 8, 2010 at 3:07)
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cool lil dude !! And for everyone else.........enjoy yer ridin now cos when this lil guy gets a bit older he's gonna make us all look really bad !! lol
(Apr 8, 2013 at 12:11)
I agree with all the comments. GET THIS KID A REAL BIKE!!! Although I enjoyed watching him ride, this kids nutz must be bruised from all that landing on his bottom areas. OUCH!!!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 2:20)
when he is older he will be able to do flares off kirbs if only i were that good
(Jul 18, 2010 at 8:29)
Pinkbike are you listening? He's gotten a POD and now its time for a VOD
This kid is a legend already
This kid is a legend already
(Jan 4, 2011 at 15:19)
well if his biking career fails with the bashing his balls are taking he could be the next justin beiber
(Jan 27, 2011 at 14:42)
this lil man is tight!!!!!!!! he doesn't belive in brakes at all. props lil man VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD VOD
(Jul 20, 2010 at 10:04)
does that not heard when he lands sitting down lol?
or does he literally have, balls of steal
or does he literally have, balls of steal
(Jul 23, 2010 at 5:22)
Probably he rides that good becouse of that water. Maybe he`s a little mutant from that "clean" water.
(Jul 10, 2010 at 12:02)
Thats awesome. Hes going to grow up to be a pro biker I bet. Also, a push bike with ridgids, yet it has rear suspension? Thats awesome!
(Jul 9, 2010 at 16:56)
haha little guy is pretty crazy , dropping off picnic table half my friends wouldn't even do that . got my vote for vod.
(Jul 5, 2010 at 17:35)
so sick this kid is going to be so good when he is older!!!!@!!
(Jul 23, 2010 at 2:46)
I guess we'll see him competing in Crankworx 2020 or something like that huh?
(Jul 20, 2010 at 9:49)
(Sep 28, 2012 at 17:36)
JACKSON! You're supposed to be going to kindergarten, not at the skatepark! Lol this kid is awesome. I would like to know how good is he now.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 20:19)
Mad props to the kid loved it but that bike has got to be doing damage to his ass for the future...Pedal less bikes are the worst idea since... Well I can't think of anything smart to say.
(Jul 19, 2010 at 17:48)
He has no ass xD
But the video is really cool, he rides cool at his age
But the video is really cool, he rides cool at his age
(Aug 4, 2010 at 21:26)
this is by far the best video. they others are just average by todays standards.. the groms are way more talented than their elders.
(Jul 17, 2010 at 6:07)
his ball must be so sore at the end of the day... Massive Props to this kid!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 9:42)
that kid must have no balls! he jumps off a picnic table straight to his balls! and he smiles about it!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 7:41)
good thing his nards are tiny cause they sure take a bashing bouncingo off that seat :o ......
(Jan 5, 2011 at 13:00)
VVVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that kid is a sick rider for his age i love the way he keeps staring into the camera that was way cooler than kindergarden!
(Jul 6, 2010 at 11:20)
This guys is unreal. I saw another version on You tube where is was dropping about five feet.
(Dec 15, 2010 at 17:29)
SICK FOOTPLANTS! hahaha this kid is better then some of the poser bmx kids that hang around the local skatepark in my town. keep shreddin little man
(Dec 18, 2010 at 11:50)
hmm look into get a 16" bike that has pedals and cranks ?? he'll be sicker then ! his little 3's are insane ! :L specially that one off the speed bump :L
(Jan 4, 2011 at 12:25)
This is sooo crazy ! Over half a million people saw this littlle fella making his way to kindergarden
so sick !
so sick !
(Aug 13, 2010 at 13:53)
what the fook would he be like after a bag of skittles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ish my kid was that good he'd ave an agent. keep it up
(Jul 20, 2010 at 5:12)
This little guy rips. Hope he sticks with it, if so he will be pro at the age of 12.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:16)
that was good an all , and hes a pretty good shreder..... but , i dont see how it got to be VOD ???
(Jul 20, 2010 at 20:40)
because people see little guys riding and really want to support them, and so they generously vote VOD. i agree with u man, but great video anyway.
(Jul 8, 2010 at 21:01)
omg specialized santa cruz or some brand like that should look for him cause he's some1 that will truly own
(Jul 20, 2010 at 12:15)
didnt even TOUCH the brake lever.. this kid is a BEAST!!! to the parents: keep this kid on a bike!
(Jul 1, 2012 at 9:53)
Amazing video, remember the name ladies and gents you may see it again in a few years time !!
(Mar 8, 2013 at 1:56)
Inspiring riding to show our kids how much fun it is to ride your bike to kindergarten,school,work or to play.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 7:08)
Doesn't look like he has balls yet and if he keeps going like that with no pedals he probs never will
(Jul 29, 2012 at 3:08)
wat a kid!!!!! kids got talent!!! wait till he gone big he myt b the dh champ rider!!!!!! awesome!!!!!!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 11:08)
ooooh he has an Endless biking sticker on the top of his helmet i recomend going on that if you are ever in vancouver
(Jul 20, 2010 at 8:44)
this kid is sick, the video was posted on vitalmtb close to a month ago now though
(Jul 20, 2010 at 10:25)
All i want to do is get this kid a bike with some cranks so he can really shred!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 11:32)
i'm betting this kid is gunna have some sponsors after this video. that was freakin awesome.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 11:09)
Dude, this kid is EPIC! Hes gonna be a BEAST when hes older (and gets pedals).
(Jul 21, 2010 at 15:32)
I met this kid last week and I saw him race on a real BMX bike with pedals!...and I also saw him riding his push bike around
(Aug 11, 2010 at 18:05)
I am 14 and now I have realised that i wanted a run bike as a toddler... this kid is inspirational!!!!
(Dec 18, 2011 at 22:16)
SWEET VOD!!! little dude is awesome i cant wait to see him on a bike with some pedals.
(Aug 6, 2010 at 1:38)
get him a bike wiv pedals A.K.A BMX or something and he will rip everyone else to shreds!!!!!!
(Aug 16, 2010 at 22:43)
haha sweet vid, Jackson rocks! I saw him at Whistler Crankworx during the slopestyle and he was ripping up parts of the Dual Slalom & GS courses from the days before.
(Oct 4, 2010 at 19:00)
OMG i would have NO balls or wouldent be able to have babys after that insane sesh!
(Jan 17, 2011 at 2:36)
that was rubbish!
my kid cant even walk and he can already do that!
check my vid of him on my site!
(Jun 4, 2011 at 4:40)
OUCH!!!! his ballz must be sore!! but hes got a lot ao potential starting at his age
(Jan 6, 2011 at 12:05)
This kids probbly better than me and he hasnt even got a proper bmx lol
I want one of those bikes but a 20"version
I want one of those bikes but a 20"version
(Jun 5, 2011 at 19:36)
since this kid is super beast without pedals i wonder what he will be like with pedals probaly even more beast
(Jul 31, 2010 at 1:00)
this kid isnt waiting to go in crankworks, crankworks is waiting for him to go in it
(Feb 6, 2012 at 20:49)
I did the exact same thing to school this morning except I go to middle school and my bike has cranks and pedals
(Jul 20, 2010 at 16:59)
Nice video, I've got one up of my son, bit.ly/aRsA9C, www.pinkbike.com/video/149247
(May 30, 2012 at 21:59)
oh my god that kid has balls of steal jees when hes older he is going to be so insanely good
(Jun 5, 2012 at 15:06)
WHAT!? this kid is doing 3s off of speed bumps and i just learned how to do it on dirt jumps
(Jul 28, 2010 at 8:17)
haha he is the next sam hill
he has already beat me last time i tried a no footer i landed wf ma face on the saddle
(Jul 20, 2010 at 14:33)
i seen this kid riding that bike for like 2 years now, its bike to get him something with cranks!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 15:37)
If he keeps with it this kid will be one of the best mountain bikers alive when he's older.
(Jul 20, 2010 at 5:10)
this kid have balls! but there broken T_T" for the perernts,get some pedals!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 5:37)
Same here, I feel rather pathetic now. Actually, now that I think about it, I still used training wheels when I was five.
(Jul 5, 2010 at 13:37)
haha thats awesome. i wish there was a skatepark on the way to my school
(Oct 4, 2010 at 0:40)
he maybe has blue balls but those balls are still bigger than many grown ups have
(Aug 25, 2010 at 10:22)
omfg i think he mght have murdered his balls by sitting on the seat when he did the drops, haha love this vid vod!
(Jul 22, 2010 at 16:03)
buy the kid a nicer bigger bike! he deserves it! fuckn future cam mccaul..
(Jul 20, 2010 at 3:56)
mate your weird, you should probably hand your self in to the cops...
(Jul 15, 2010 at 9:57)
It's a Like-a-bike jumper. Here's a link
(Oct 13, 2010 at 8:17)
someone get that kid a fucking crank LOL thats sick, future pro forsure
(Apr 13, 2011 at 11:24)
he is going to be the travis pastrana of MTB when he grows up
(May 7, 2011 at 15:21)
Ian Highlands, you get over here right now and make this Video of the Day!
(Jan 2, 2012 at 21:04)
im so glad someone got him a real bike hes gonna be the next sam hill!
(Oct 26, 2011 at 10:06)
probly the best rider of his age ive seen... GET HIM A BIKE WITH PEDALS!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 9:29)
that kid is so insane. I want him as a son. he just showed me up.
(Jul 21, 2010 at 21:27)
that they are, im going to get mine changed though. doesnt really mean much to me anymore. its all yours haha
(Jul 20, 2010 at 20:34)
wish i had such a nice bike when i was his age.... no lie i rocked the fisher-price with trainers
(Jul 20, 2010 at 20:04)
Get that kid a real bike!!!!!!!!! None of that pedal less shit!!!
(Jul 20, 2010 at 3:21)
He is Awesome , He is going to be a beast on a bike when he's older
(Jul 5, 2010 at 14:02)
Wow this kid is amazing we will all see him become a professional haha


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December 5, 2012
Scientists Discover Oldest Known Dinosaur
For the past twenty years, Eoraptor has represented the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. This controversial little creature–found in the roughly 231-million-year-old rock of Argentina–has often been cited as the earliest known dinosaur. But Eoraptor has either just been stripped of that title, or soon will be. A newly-described fossil found decades ago in Tanzania extends the dawn of the dinosaurs more than 10 million years further back in time.
Named Nyasasaurus parringtoni, the roughly 243-million-year-old fossils represent either the oldest known dinosaur or the closest known relative to the earliest dinosaurs. The find was announced by University of Washington paleontologist Sterling Nesbitt and colleagues in Biology Letters, and I wrote a short news item about the discovery for Nature News. The paper presents a significant find that is also a tribute to the work of Alan Charig–who studied and named the animal, but never formally published a description–but it isn't just that. The recognition of Nyasasaurus right near the base of the dinosaur family tree adds to a growing body of evidence that the ancestors of dinosaurs proliferated in the wake of a catastrophic mass extinction.
In March of 2010, Nesbitt and a team of collaborators named a leggy, long-necked creature from the same Triassic rock unit in Tanzania they named Asilisaurus kongwe. This creature was a dinosauriform–a member of the group from which the first true dinosaurs emerged–and, even better, appeared to to be the closest known relative to the Dinosauria as a whole. The find hinted that the dinosaur lineage had probably split off from a common ancestor by this time, meaning that the most archaic dinosaurs may have already existed by 243 million years ago. Roughly 249-million-year-old footprints of dinosauriforms found among Poland's Holy Cross Mountains, described by different researchers later the same year, added evidence that the dinosauriforms were diversifying right from the beginning of the Triassic–not long after the catastrophe that decimated life on earth at the end of the Permian, around 252 million years ago.
Nyasasaurus is another step closer to the first true dinosaurs, and is just as old as Asilisaurus. To find an animal with such distinctive, dinosaur-like traits in the Middle Triassic indicates that dinosaurs already existed, or their ancestral stem was already established. Either way, Eoraptor and kin from South America can no longer be considered as the first dinosaurs, but rather a later radiation of forms. Even though our knowledge of Nyasasaurus is only fragmentary–the dinosaur is represented by a right humerus and a collection of vertebrae from two specimens–the dinosauriform nonetheless marks an additional 12 million years of dinosaur time that paleontologists are only just starting to explore.
Whether or not we ever achieve a more complete view of Nyasasaurus depends on the luck and the caprices of the fossil record. In the new paper, Nesbitt and coauthors point out that the rare, fragmentary nature of the remains found so far reflects that dinosauriforms–and early dinosaurs–were marginal parts of the ecosystems they inhabited. Dinosaurs did not dominate from the very start. They were relatively meek, small animals that lived in a world ruled by archosaurs more closely related to crocodiles. It was only in the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, when their archosaurian competition was diminished, that dinosaurs became dominant. That means the earliest dinosaurs and their ancestors are few and far between in the Triassic record.
Still, when I asked Nesbitt what Nyasasaurus might have looked like, he cited other dinosauriforms and early dinosaurs as templates to constrain our expectations. Nyasasaurus may have looked quite like Asilisaurus–a leggy animal with an elongated neck–although Nyasasaurus may have been bipedal. Future finds will test this idea, but the fact remains that paleontologists are closing in on what the very first dinosaurs were like. As paleontologists uncover more early dinosaurs and dinosauriforms, the dividing line between the two disappears–scientists are starting to smooth out the evolutionary transition between the first dinosaurs and their ancestors. What role Nyasasaurus played in that transformation isn't yet clear, but the creature is a signal that over 10 million years more of uncharted dinosaur history remains in the rock.
Nesbitt, S., Sidor, C., Irmis, R., Angielczyk, K., Smith, R., Tsuji, L. 2010. Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira. Nature 464, 7285: 95–98. doi:10.1038/nature08718
Nesbitt, N., Barrett, P., Werning, S., Sidor, C., Charig, A. 2012. The oldest dinosaur? A middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania. Biology Letters. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012/0949
April 30, 2012
The Mysterious Teeth of Ostafrikasaurus
There's a lot we don't know about spinosaurs. Even though a few of these croc-snouted animals are known from mostly complete skeletons—including Baryonyx and Suchomimus—many spinosaurs are known from only sparse bits and pieces. The large spinosaur Oxalaia from the Cretaceous rock of Brazil is known from two skull fragments, and only a few elements have been found from the newly announced Ichthyovenator. We know even less about another recently proposed spinosaur. Called Ostafrikasaurus, this dinosaur is represented by a pair of teeth.
Paleontologist Eric Buffetaut described the dinosaur teeth in the journal Oryctos. They were found a century ago by the German fossil expeditions to Tanzania. During that time, the field team collected more than 230 teeth attributable to Late Jurassic theropod dinosaurs, predators that lived among sauropods and stegosaurs around 150 million years ago. Determining exactly which dinosaurs these dental tidbits belonged to has been a persistent problem. Mammal teeth, with their various cusps and troughs, are often distinctive enough to identify genera and species, but isolated dinosaur teeth are not usually so informative. Many dinosaur species named from teeth alone have turned out to be synonyms of dinosaurs known from better material. Unless you have a detailed knowledge of the dinosaurs that lived in a particular area at a given time, attributing isolated teeth to particular dinosaurs is a risky proposition. Anatomical context is extremely important in these situations.
No surprise, then, that the teeth Buffetaut described have had a complicated history. German paleontologist Werner Janensch, who did much of the initial descriptive work on the Jurassic dinosaurs of Tanzania, thought that the serrated, ridged and slightly curved teeth probably belonged to a dinosaur O.C. Marsh named from the Jurassic of North America, "Labrosaurus." ("Labrosaurus" is now considered a synonym of Allosaurus.) More recently, in 2000, paleontologists James Madsen and Samuel Welles suggested that the teeth belonged to a form of Ceratosaurus, a highly ornamented theropod typically found in the Late Jurassic rock of western North America. And in 2008, paleontologist Denver Fowler mentioned that these peculiar teeth from Tanzania might hint at a connection between ceratosaurs and spinosaurs. With this in mind, Buffetaut reexamined the strange teeth and concluded that they represent a hitherto unknown form of early spinosaur.
Buffetaut singled out two possible spinosaur teeth—specimens designated MB.R.1084 and MB.R.1091. Both of these teeth have relatively coarse serrations and a number of prominent vertical ridges along both sides of the teeth, with more on the tongue side than the cheek side. Overall, they look similar to the teeth of Baryonyx, and so Buffetaut created a new genus and species of dinosaur for the two teeth: Ostafrikasaurus crassiserratus.
If Ostafrikasaurus is a spinosaur, it would be the earliest known and could help elucidate what these dinosaurs were like before they became fish-catching specialists. But there's too little material to be sure. The Ostrafrikasaurus teeth look similar to spinosaur teeth, but as previously recognized by other paleontologists, they also resemble ceratosaur teeth. We need a nice skull set with Ostrafrikasaurus-like teeth to determine what this dinosaur actually was. The same is true of a large claw found in the Late Jurassic strata of North America, currently attributed to Torvosaurus, that has been highlighted as possible evidence of a spinosaur. There may have been spinosaurs in North America, and their history might have stretched back 150 million years to the time of Apatosaurus, but definitive proof remains elusive. Until adequate fossil evidence turns up, the idea of Late Jurassic spinosaurs will be left hanging.
Buffetaut, E. 2011. An early spinosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru (Tanzania) and the evolution of the spinosaurid dentition. Oryctos. 10, 1-8
July 28, 2011
Tendaguru's Lost World
In North America, the Morrison Formation is a famous and fossil-rich slice of time; its rock contains the bones of some of the quintessential dinosaurs. Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and more—the Morrison represents the heyday of Jurassic dinosaurs. A less similar but less famous site represents the Late Jurassic world. The fossil sites of Tendaguru, in Africa, preserve dinosaurs similar to, yet distinct from, their North American counterparts.
Paleontologists Wolf-Dieter Heinrich, Robert Bussert and Martin Aberhan just reviewed the history and significance of Tendaguru in Geology Today. In 1906, a German mining engineer made the fortuitous discovery of dinosaur bones near Tendaguru Hill in Tanzania. News made it back to Germany, and after an initial expedition in 1907, Berlin's Museum of Natural History launched a major effort to uncover the area's dinosaurs between 1909 and 1913. The result? Over 225 tons of dinosaur bones from one of the most productive fossil sites in all of Africa.
The Jurassic dinosaurs of the Tendaguru sites have often been seen as a rough equivalent to those of the Morrison. Big, long-necked sauropods, such as Dicraeosaurus, Tornieria and Giraffatitan (formerly Brachiosaurus), were numerous and a prominent part of the dinosaur fauna. There was also the spiky stegosaur Kentrosaurus, the ornithopod Dysalotosaurus and a host of poorly known predatory dinosaurs, including Elaphrosaurus and an Allosaurus-like theropod.
Frustratingly, no complete, articulated dinosaur skeletons were ever found at Tendaguru, but the sites preserve some intriguing fossil features. For one thing, the early 20th century expeditions found bonebeds of Kentrosaurus and Dysalotosaurus. They were once thought to represent mass deaths when herds of dinosaurs were killed en masse by local flooding, though, as Heinrich and co-authors point out, the bonebeds could have been created by dinosaurs becoming stuck in the mud and dying over a relatively longer period of time. The fact that the articulated feet of big sauropod dinosaurs have been found in an upright position hints that some of these huge dinosaurs also became mired and died—life alongside the Jurassic lagoon could be dangerous.
But one of the most curious aspects of the Tendaguru dinosaurs is that they are so similar to those found in North America's Morrison Formation. After all, Giraffatitan was previously described as a species of Brachiosaurus—a dinosaur found in Jurassic North America—and problematic big theropod remains from Tendaguru have been attributed to Allosaurus, not to mention the presence of stegosaurs and other dinosaurs on both continents. Whereas the Tendaguru dinosaurs were once thought to be nearly equivalent to those of North America, a different picture has emerged in which the dinosaurs of Tanzania were similar to those found in the Morrison Formation, but actually belonged to different genera. Nevertheless, the close correspondence between the two raises the question of why very similar dinosaur communities independently came to exist on two different continents. Paleontologists will have to dig deeper to find out.
Heinrich, W., Bussert, R., & Aberhan, M. (2011). A blast from the past: the lost world of dinosaurs at Tendaguru, East Africa Geology Today, 27 (3), 101-106 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2451.2011.00795.x
July 8, 2011
Kentrosaurus Had a Formidable Swing
Kentrosaurus was a dinosaur you wouldn't want to mess with. This smaller cousin of Stegosaurus, found in the Late Jurassic deposits of Tanzania, was armed with a formidable array of paired spikes along its tail. (And, in one of my favorite bits of fossil terminology, the spiked tails of stegosaurs are known as "thagomizers.") Get hit with a tail like that and you'd be turned into an instant shish kebab. But just how much damage was the tail of Kentrosaurus capable of inflicting?
Late last year paleontologist Heinrich Mallison presented a revised look at the mechanics of Kentrosaurus. Among other findings, Mallison reported that Kentrosaurus was a fairly flexible dinosaur. When under attack, for example, Kentrosaurus may have thrown its head back to keep an attacker in its sights, and this armored dinosaur may have also bowed its forelimbs to better support itself while swinging its tail about. Now, in a follow-up to last year's paper, Mallison has published the results of an investigation into how flexible and powerful Kentrosaurus' spiked tail itself may have been.
To experiment with Kentrosaurus, Mallison created virtual models of the dinosaur's skeleton. This provided the framework on which muscles could be reconstructed and the forces generated by the tail could be estimated. Of particular importance was Mallison's reconstruction of the dinosaur's tail muscles. Rather than give Kentrosaurus a thin tail typical of many dinosaur illustrations, Mallison reconstructed the creature with a deep, thick tail that would have generated more power but would have also been quite heavy.
As it turns out, Kentrosaurus was a heavy hitter. According to Mallison's models, the spikes at the tip of the dinosaur's tail could have hit their target at a top speed of over 40 meters per second, and Kentrosaurus could have swung its tail at a speed in excess of 10 meters per second in a 75 degree arc. "At this speed," Mallison writes, "the spikes could penetrate deeply into soft tissues or between ribs and were able to shatter bones." He adds: "Penetrating impacts at 10 m/s created forces greater than those sufficient to fracture a human skull." Ouch.
For more on Kentrosaurus defense, check out Mallison's own post on the subject at the Palaeontologia Electronica blog.
Mallison, H. (2011). Defense capabilities of Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig, 1915 Palaeontogia Electronica
September 16, 2010
Stegosaurus Week: The Many Postures of Kentrosaurus
Since the early days of paleontology, the posture of dinosaurs and the range of motion they were capable of have been contentious subjects for paleontologists. During the 19th century, especially, the general view of what dinosaurs would have looked like changed no less than three times, and investigations into how these animals moved continue to this day. Among the spate of recent studies on dinosaur flexibility, posture and motion is a new paper by Heinrich Mallison which used the Jurassic stegosaur Kentrosaurus to investigate some of the hypotheses surrounding this armored dinosaur.
Most of what we know about Kentrosaurus comes from the approximately 153-million-year-old Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania. It was there that the German paleontologist Edwin Hennig found numerous isolated bones and elements of disarticulated Kentrosaurus skeletons—in addition to the bones of many other dinosaurs—during the early 20th century; he was also lucky enough to find one partial skeleton of the stegosaur that was suitable for mounting. This specimen, reconstructed with sprawling limbs and a dragging tail, was on display at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin for decades. When it was taken apart to restore it in a more accurate posture in 2005, scientists made laser scans of each bone in order to create a digital restoration. It is this digital Kentrosaurus that formed the basis of Mallison's new study—the closest thing a paleontologist has to a living dinosaur to examine.
In addition to its normal posture and range of motion, Mallison's study looks at several controversial, little-studied ideas about this dinosaur and its kin. According to Hennig, Kentrosaurus had a squished, lizard-like posture and could not use its spiky tail for defense. In the 1980s, however, paleontologist Robert Bakker went to the opposite extreme, restoring stegosaurs with an erect posture that would have allowed them to pivot and swing their formidable tails at attacking predators. Additionally, Bakker proposed that Stegosaurus and its kin could have adopted a "tripodal" posture in which they reared back to rest on their tails, too, and were much more dynamic animals than envisioned by Hennig and other early 20th-century paleontologists.
Although Mallison stresses that the findings based upon his model are provisional, Kentrosaurus appears to have used different postures for different reasons. While walking, it would have held its limbs erect, but when threatened it was capable of flexing its forelimbs out into a sprawling position to help support itself as it swung its tail at an offending predator. In the latter circumstance, Kentrosaurus would have also been able to extend its neck to look backwards at an attacking dinosaur, though shifting position to keep a predator in view may have created blind spots that would have left this armored dinosaur vulnerable to multiple predators. As far as feeding was concerned, Kentrosaurus was indeed capable of rearing back to rest on its tail, though how often it would have done so—and what sort of food it would have been able to reach by doing so—is unknown. Overall, Kentrosaurus was not as stiff as Hennig proposed. Quite the contrary—this stegosaur was capable of altering its posture to suit a variety of circumstances, and it is likely that at least some of its relatives had similar abilities.
Mallison, H. (2010). CAD assessment of the posture and range of motion of Kentrosaurus aethiopicus Hennig 1915 Swiss Journal of Geosciences DOI: 10.1007/s00015-010-0024-2


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