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T. rex specimen bought by Naturalis museum in Leiden + Placerias + more news



Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent news and blog items:

Naturalis Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands, buys Tyrannosaurus fossil
with crowd-funding for 4.4 million euros; fossil was excavated on
private land in Montana by researchers at the museum. The fossil will
go on display temporarily in 2016 and then will be moved to a newly
built part of the museum

http://www.naturalis.nl/en/news/collection/t-rex-will-come-leiden/

In Dutch, with video

http://www.nu.nl/cultuur-overig/3958326/naturalis-heeft-skelet-tyrannosaurus-rex-binnen.html

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Bob Bakker on reconstructing and mounting big dicynodont Placerias in motion

http://blog.hmns.org/2014/12/its-alive-dr-bakker-tells-us-how-to-make-skeletons-dance/


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Jon Tennant on redescribing Alligatorellus, the dwarf crocodiliform from Bavaria


http://blogs.egu.eu/network/palaeoblog/2014/12/27/1364/