Dr. Ellery, Dinosaur Theorist

Happy Memorial Day!

2009-05-24T08:59:00.000-07:00

Dr. Ellery took a short break from paleontology yesterday to ride in the City of Bowie's Memorial Day parade. In recognition of his prominence in the scientific community he was permitted to ride on one of the Bowie Volunteer Fire Department's engines. Here are a couple of photos:

Dr. Ellery's Secret

2009-04-29T15:35:00.000-07:00

A giant monster truck rolled over all the dinosaurs. When all the dinosaurs were dead, one of its tires blew up and it was shot into outer space.

Suchomimus

2008-12-21T11:03:00.000-08:00

One night when we were reading my dinosaur encyclopedia I found a chapter and I saw Suchomimus, an ancestors of crocodiles that lived back in time, in the picture. And then, when I looked at the chapter, it was really fun.

My New School

2008-11-12T15:06:00.000-08:00

I like my new school. It is very good. But I used to go to another school in the same school building. My new teacher's name is Miss Hansen [sp?], and I really like her because she is someone who's very nice. I get more playtime in Miss Hansen's class than in Miss Gianna's class. I love my new school so much that I just never want to leave it.

A Story About Magic Schoolbus

2008-04-16T06:07:00.000-07:00

One day the Magic Schoolbus was going on a field trip and the field trip was about dinosaur science (paleontology). And the Magic schoolbus went into a book of dinosaur science and the teacher read about dinosaurs all until it was time to go back to school.

The next day they went on another field trip and this one was about bats and other nocturnal creatures that only come out at night. And they went into a castle full of bats. And they explored all through the castle.

The next day they came to visit me, Ellery.

The end of the best blog entry of all.

Dinosaurs Floating Up Into Space

2008-04-12T09:01:00.000-07:00

Something that makes wind created a giant wind storm that just blew all the dinosaurs up into space, except for a few who survived that we call birds. The wind storm blew them off into space and they landed on the planet Neptue, the little gray one. And so far the dinosaurs went extinct on Neptue when the giant asteroid hit it and destroyed the whole planet and it just made a material that asteroids can explode. It's just made of a material that asteroids can destroy. And the asteroid knocked Neptue down and the dinosaurs floated back to Earth and they're still wandering around the desert today. Every day they're still wandering around the desert on Earth.

Dr. Ellery's Theory of Pouchosaurus

2008-03-22T15:11:00.000-07:00

Pouchosaurus was one of the tallest dinosaurs and one of the pouched dinosaurs. The pouch was used for carrying things like big rocks and all sorts of heavy things. Pouchosaurus was almost as big as Gicharyosaurus, one of the tallest and biggest and humongousest dinosaurs that have ever lived before the time of people, even in the whole wide world. We haven't yet seen a dinosaur so mysterious and angry before and it had spikes to defend itself from most dinosaurs which are all over its head. And it uses its spikes to defend itself from Gitemposaurus and Reprisbosaurus, Clymplogolosaurus, and you haven't recognized the Dogandcatandalltheanimalsinthewholewideworldosaurus was one of the best dinosaurs ever discovered. But we met a new one called Bandaidosaurus that needs to be defended from Pouchosaurus and the Probotrobotsaurus, which was one of the best dinosaurs waiting to be discovered,, but watch out for the fierce Bandaidosaurus with razor-sharp teeth 75 inches long from the top of its beak to the end of its frill. Pouchosaurus had to defend itself from Newsosaurus. Prisbrontosaurus was one of the early dinosaurs from the Jurassic period. And now Spwisbrontosaurusochirus but it was the best dinosaurs waiting to be discovered by Dr. Ellery. And Stapleosaurus was the last dinosaur I've ever discovered.

But now we're going to talk about the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous Period. It was the period of metal robot dinosaurs. The whole world shakes and has the robot sound "pleet-a-ploot". In the Cretaceous period there was Probrontosaurus, one of the early flying robot dinosaurs. This mama was born in the 1996 abd ewaited for Basketsaurus to be discovered. It is so big that only one neck, back, and tail bone had been found, and a little bitty neck bone from a baby. Now comes Ultimintsaurus. It was a small dinosaur in the early Cretaceous period, one of the best dinosaurs with a way to defend itself by using its long tail as a whip to defend itself from predators. All of the babies have long tails and big feet. And Kangarooasaurus was the last dinosaur that's been discovered by me, and it's the only last one I know in my whole life.

The end.

Dinosaur Science of Made-Up Dinosaurs

2008-03-19T14:54:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time I was digging at the Flaming Cliffs and there I found something. I pulled it right out of the ground and chopped all of the rock off and brushed it off and it was a real Bumposaurus. Bumposaurus was a big dinosaur that had a big, humongous dome that is really just a bump for defending this plant-eating dinosaur. It walked on two feet and had a long neck to reach very high for food. It ate 88-10 pounds of food in one whole day. And then I took it to the dinosaur museum and kept on digging.

Next I found one of those plant-eating dinosaurs, the dreadly spike-tailed, spike-covered Spikeosaurus. But Bashosaurus was not the biggest plant-eating dinosaur, including Spikeosaurus. And I took that skeleton to the museum and everyone came in and saw the two skeletons I had found, and saw those little wrist-like bones on the Bumposaurus's enormous bump on its head.

And then I digged and digged until I found Catotops, a meat-eater with horns all over its body.

And now I gud and dug and dug until I could found another dinosaur, Pianosaurus, It was shaped like a piano, but had four walking legs and a humongous neck that could reach up 66-88 feet. And it was so huge that it could have been the Ultimate Dinosaur.

And if you find one even bigger come to the dinosaur museum in Washington, DC and post it there.

And I digged and digged and digged, but the Pianosaurus was at the dinosaur museum. The Catotops was, too. And I digged and found a Bridgeosaurus, because it had bridge-like wheels and had two long necks sticking out of each side of the bridge.

And I digged and digged and digged and digged and digged at Ghost Ranch until I hit something and took it out. It was an Elephantsaurus. A big meat-eating dinosaur the size of a giant lizard, so big that it was bigger than Argentinosaurus, Bashosaurus, Bumposaurus, Bridgeosaurus, ad Pianosaurus, It was the biggest one found in the time of the people.

The end.

The Definitive Guide to Bashosaurus

2008-03-18T12:23:00.000-07:00

Bashosaurus is a very big dinosaur that lived in the time of people. Perhaps it was so big that we had to leave it here because no one could pick it up because of its weight. And Bashosaurus was so humongous that not even an enormous dog the size of Bashosaurus could pick it up. It ate plants and walked on two legs and it was the biggest plant-eater ever. This is unusual because most of the large plant-eaters stood on four legs.

There's another dinosaur that's bigger than Bashosaurus, Gicharyosaurus. Gicharyosaurus was bigger and humongouser and enormouser than Argentinosaurus. It was 155 feet long, making it the biggest creature ever to walk the Earth. But it was so big it could have been the ultimate dinosaur. It is the biggest dinosaur found so far. Scientists have found only one neck bone from Gicharyosaurus, which was found in a volcano in Washington State. It was found after an enormous eruption unearthed a previously-unknown fossil bed. Gicharyosaurus was also a plant-eater.

The Mysterious Extrinction of a Planet

2008-03-09T13:55:00.000-07:00

Scientists think that the planet's name could have been Neptue (not Neptune) because scientists have never discovered such a planet. It went extinct because a giant asteroid fell onto the surface and destroyed it, that's what scientists think. There was alien life on Neptue, which was the only planet with really scary life on it. An asteroid knocked it over before another asteroid hit it and destroyed it.

But another planet called Jupa is a kind of big, pretty planet like Saturn. It's enormous, about half again as big as Saturn. It's so big that it could be the ultimate planet. Jupa has big blue rings made mostly of dust and icebergs. One of Jupa's 6 moons escaped its gravitational pull and became the big giant asteroid that destroyed Neptue.

About the Tapeosaurus

2008-03-08T13:21:00.000-08:00

Tapeosaurus is an enormous dinosaur that could have made a tornado, but it should be the biggest of all dinosaurs. It is bigger than Ultrasaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus. And it's the biggest of all. It could make a tornado bigger than this, Done, done and the end.

Note that the theory that sufficiently large dinosaurs can affect the weather is controversial, and is not accepted by all paleontologists or paleoclimatologists. However, Dr. Ellery is confident that his forthcoming monograph on large dinosaurs will be a breakthrough in the field.

An Extinct Bird: The Pelitan

2008-03-02T13:50:00.000-08:00

The pelitan was an enormous bird that became extinct 1005080908010055 million years ago, and pelitans didn't mind eating anything. They just swallowed it whole, not caring about anything that they ate. And they did not like to eat people food because it was bad for their diet. And it should be an enormous, gigantic, unormous bird. They had about seven babies a month, but they [the parents] ate lots of lousy foods. And that's all I want to say. They are not related to pelicuts.

An Extinct ion Theory: The Pelicut (continued)

2008-02-29T14:59:00.000-08:00

The pelicut died out 80 million years ago, It died out because a comet ball crashed into the Earth and killed all the pelicuts. The pelicut swallowed other animals whole and didn't mind catching fish. The pelicuts were humungous birds. They only lived in Texas and Argentina, but some of them got eaten by great white sharks. That's because great white sharks could jump high enough out of the water to catch low-flying pelicuts.

Dr. Ellery is feeling better today.

An Extinct ion Theory: The Pelicut

2008-02-28T18:07:00.000-08:00

Dr. Ellery has been sick the last couple of days but was insistent that his Loyal Readers needed to learn about the extinct bird, the pelicut. The pelicut was the largest flying creature ever, larger even than the pterosaur Quetzlcoatlus. It had a beak that was approximately 30.5 meters (100 feet) long, and it swallowed animals whole. A well-preserved fossil unearthed in Argentina was found to have in its stomach the remains of a large constrictor.

Why Dinosaurs Went Extinct: The Hot Sun Theory

2008-02-27T15:36:00.000-08:00

If you haven't yet seen it you should check out Ankylosaur Week over at Tetrapod Zoology.

This theory of dinosaur extinction is that the sun got too hot for the dinosaurs to live, and they died out, Millions of years later the hominids evolved, and that's how we're here to read blogs and study dinosaurs.

Why Dinosaurs Went Extinct: The Asteroid Theory

2008-02-26T10:27:00.000-08:00

There's a giant meteor called a blanket meteor that hit the Earth and sent giant chunks of rock flying into the air. They crashed down onto the Earth and killed off the dinosaurs.