More on Triassic finds in Argentina + Japanese hadrosaur + Spinosaurus NOVA + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com



The big news this week, of course, is the SVP meeting in Berlin--also,
expect some new taxa to be announced and published (at least three
hadrosaurs, for one) before the end of the week!

Here a number of recent news and blog items:

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Triassic fossils from Argentina--an English-language version of the
news I posted earlier about a major discovery of Triassic fossils in
San Juan Province, Argentina

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/11/03/argentina-discovers-ancestors-dinosaurs-and-mammals/

in Spanish

http://www.eltiempo.com/estilo-de-vida/ciencia/se-descubren-nuevas-especies-antecesoras-de-dinosaurios-y-mamiferos/14782476

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I've posted a number of news items in Japanese about the on-going
discoveries of this hadrosaur specimen. Here's an item in English.

Japanese hadrosaur from Hokkaido, interview with Yoshitsugu Kobayashi

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/01/national/science-health/dinosaur-fossil-teases-hokkaido/
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A useful summary of info about Deinocheirus by Yoshitsugu Kobayashi (in English)


http://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/2014/10/30/65-deinocheirus-mirificus-no-longer-an-enigma/

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Iteravis press release

http://english.ivpp.cas.cn/rh/rp/201410/t20141030_130269.html

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Spinosaurus program

Reminder that the NOVA-National Geographic television special about
Spinosaurus is later this week (Nov. 5) on PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bigger-than-t-rex.html

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Sauropod excavation at General Roca (Río Negro, Argentina) (in Spanish)

http://aragosaurus.blogspot.com/2014/11/descubierto-un-esqueleto-articulado-de.html

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Theropod teeth from Portugal (in Portuguese)

http://lusodinos.blogspot.com/2014/11/dentes-de-dinossauros-mostram.html

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An older item that may apply to the recent paper "How the pterosaur
got its wings"....
Video about aerodynamics by John Maynard Smith...why pterosaurs (like
early birds) likely had a functional aerodynamic tail to stabilize
flight before full winged flight developed.

http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/84