Dr. Brian Curtice Publications
Dr. Brian Curtice is an expert on sauropod dinosaurs, the longest, tallest, and heaviest creatures that ever walked the earth. Below are selected academic papers and some popular literature featuring Dr. BC's work.
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Academic Publications and Other Work
2026
Accepted
Published
A case report of a pathology in the ‘whip’ of a flagellicaudatan sauropod - van der Linden, Wilhite, Bivens, Woodruff, Hunter, Stecko, Curtice
Et tu, Ut te (titan)? Thoughts on Alamosaurus and Variation - Curtice and McCord
The Brachiosaurid Sauropod from the Dry Mesa Quarry (Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic, Colorado, USA) Represents A New Taxon - Boisvert, Bivens, van der Linden, Vidal, Wilhite, Britt, Curtice
Primitive, or just understudied? Pneumaticity in Jurassic diplodocids paralleled that of Cretaceous rebbachisaurs and titanosaurs. - Wedel, McHugh, Weil, Atterholt, Cavigelli, Curtice, Foster, Hunter
A Morrison “Saber-tooth"? – Comparison of Ceratosaurus Dentition to other theropods and machairodontinae and its implications for Ceratosaurus predatory ecology - Oswald and Curtice
New material of the Late Jurassic sphenodontid Eilenodon robustus reveals transitionary adaptations to herbivory - Haridy, Frederickson, Peterson, Miller, Davis, Curtice, Hunter, and Cifelli
Talks
WAVP 2026 -Â Alamosaurus
Phoenix Children’s Museum
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2025
Supersaurus, the World's Longest Dinosaur!Â
 Haplocanthosaurus from DMDQÂ
Census of HaplocanthosaurusÂ
Apatosaurus Rib Pneumaticity Â
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2024 and older
Seis- ing up the Super- Morrison formation sauropods Woodruff, Curtice, Foster
Seriema Claw Use Implications for "Raptor" Dinosaurs
The Killing of UltrasaurusÂ
Baby Sauropod Dinosaurs from the Dry Mesa Dinosaur Quarry
2017 Remembering Alamosaurus
Sonorasaurus axial skeleton
Death of Dystylosaurus
Arizona Apatosaurus
BC's MS. thesis Codex of Diplodocid Caudal Vertebrae
"Here Be Dragons" - Early Cretaceous theropod teeth
Popular Literature Featuring Dr. Curtice
2021 December -Â Supersaurus, world's longest dinosaur write-upÂ
Discover Magazine Top 100 Science stories in 1996 Â
The story of Dr. BC eliminating Ultrasaurus appeared in a Dinosaur Discoveries articleÂ
Dr. BC's work on Seismosaurus in the newsÂ
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Me excavating a Diplodocus sacral (hip) complex. Shortly after this photo was taken, I realized I had not only discovered the hip but also a large section of the tail, nearly the entire hind limb, and a number of the back bones. I spent two field seasons excavating this specimen and nearly 2 years preparing it for study. It is available and housed in the collections of the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology in Provo, Utah.