Ian N. Cost
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- A fragment of Gondwana
- Amazin Arty Antics
- Antediluvian Salad
- Carnosauria
- Dinochick Blogs
- Dracovenator
- El regreso de <i>Biston betularia</i>
- Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs
- Mark P. Witton's Blog
- Secrets of the Horned Dinosaurs
- Skeletal Drawing
- Spinops
- TAPHOS Lab at UWO
- The Lord Geekington
- The Whirlpool of Life
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I am an educator and a researcher. I am interested in how the feeding apparatus of reptiles, especially birds and dinosaurs, has changed over time. Therefore, I conduct research focused on the anatomy and biomechanics of the head. My research specifically seeks to answer questions concerning the functional morphology and biomechanical environment of the palate, including kinetic movements of the skull. Understanding the impact that palatal movements and the joints that are in the head have on the ecological role of all reptiles, including birds, allows us to better comprehend the evolution of the feeding apparatus in extant and fossil animals and is of great interest to me. |
| Interests | DINOSAURS, HISTORY, Books and Literature, Movies, Anime, Water, Graffiti, Drawing, Crosswords, Computers, Boardgames, Videogames, Asian History, Roman history, Vikings, Penguins, Foxes, Shinto, HISTORY, DINOSAURS. |
| Favorite Movies | Beyond the Mat, Blade Runner, Dracula, Falling Down, Fight Club, The Green Mile, The Goonies, Labyrinth, The Last Samurai, Flight of the Phoenix, To Kill a Mockingbird, Memphis Belle, Saving Private Ryan, Stand by Me, This Is Spinal Tap, The 13th Warrior, Willow, uniquely I like all three Jurassic Park movies as well. |
| Favorite Music | Keith Anderson, The Clash, Rancid, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, The Animals, Blake Shelton, The Beatles, Better Than Ezra, Cake, Candlebox, Billy Idol, David Bowie, Counting Crows, Brad Paisley, Machine Head, BoA, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Neil Young, The Cars, Charlie Parker, The Cure, Danzig, Misfits, U.K. Subs, Dead Kennedys, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Distillers, Elton John, Enemy Soil, Garbage, Fozzy, Thyrfing, Leech Eater... this could go on forever |
| Favorite Books | The Bible, The Koran, A Mighty Fortress, Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ambrose Bierce, Illiad and Odyssey, Saga of the Volsungs, Eaters of the Dead, Heinlein, Philip Dick, H. P. Lovecraft, Harry Turtledove, Dune, Tolkein, Kafka, Eragon, Tiger Tiger, Watchmen, The Dinosaur Heresies More recently I have been reading George RR Martin's Ice and Fire books and a lot of dinosaur related books in between. |