Julia writes:
“I got this tattoo done on Saturday. It’s the same set of footprints I use in the avatar for my blog (The Ethical Palaeontologist), but in fact they’re the narrow-gauge sauropod dinosaur trackways from the Ardley quarry in Oxfordshire. There’s no deeper meaning other than the fact that I’ve spent most of my academic career working on sauropod dinosaurs. But there are plans for more, if I could just get hold of a decent black and white illustration of a sauropod dorsal vertebra in dorsal view…”
Carl: Here’s a paper Julia co-wrote on what the trackways reveal about dinosaurs. [Update: Whoops, wrong Julia. Thanks for the correction, Julia...]
May 14th, 2008 at 7:10 am
No it isn’t – that was Julia Day! Plain old Julia Heathcote here…
But not the first time the two of us have been confused for the other.
October 19th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Yahoo for dino footprints. I proudly bear a tyrannosaurus rex foot print on my right hipbone and intend to get a matching one on my left… I’m an amature paleontologist and i just adore everything about them.