Aquí traigo un nuevo artículo de la serie Estudiando Lo Imposible. Tras La ciencia tras los poderes de Superman y La biología de los monstruos de películas de serie B llega un monográfico sobre uno de los bichos más entrañables que parió el país del sol naciente: The science of Godzilla. Todo lo que siempre quisimos saber sobre ese bicho está ahí, incluyendo la versión americanizada rodada con los restos de los dinosaurios de Parque Jurásico:
Based on the conclusions of Japanese palaeontologist Dr Yamane, we ‘know’ that the original Godzilla from the 1954 movie was a dinosaur, and according to Carpenter (1998) it was clearly a theropod. Yes, this is Ken Carpenter, the palaeontologist best known for his work on armoured dinosaurs. By inferring certain morphological details, Carpenter concluded that Godzilla must have been an immense neoceratosaur related to ceratosaurids and abelisaurs. In part this idea comes from the shared derived character of bony scutes growing along the dorsal midline: present in both Godzilla and ceratosaurids, these aren’t present in other theropods and were therefore interpreted as a synapomorphy. I don’t need to tell you that Carpenter’s article was written tongue-in-cheek.
[tags]godzilla, ciencia[/tags]
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