Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015) + dinosaur eggs vandalized in Spain + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent news and blog items:


 Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925 - 2015), Polish paleontologist who
worked in Mongolia, has died (March 13), just short of her 90th
birthday. She named many genera of Mesozic mammals.  (in Polish and
English)

http://wyborcza.pl/1,75476,17566702,Zmarla_prof__Zofia_Kielan_Jaworowska__wybitna_paleontolozka_.html

Career and publications

http://www.paleo.pan.pl/pracownicy/kielan-jaworowska/zofia_kielan-jaworowska.html

Genera named:

http://www.ubio.org/NZ/search.php?search=Jaworowska&colname=on&colauthority=on&colcomments=on&colcategory=on&colpublication=on&vol=&page=

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Open-air dinosaur fossil site with titanosaur nests at Coll de Nargó
in Catalonia seriously vandalized (in Spanish)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/spain-vandals-destroy-europes-largest-dinosaur-egg-nest-coll-de-nargo-site-1491652

With before and after images

http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2015/03/11/catalunya/1426094358_921242.html


http://www.thelocal.es/20150312/dinosaur-eggs-destroyed-at

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Tyrannosaurus used its arms like grappling hooks to hold its prey for
bites from it powerful jaws.
Mary Schweitzer in a recent talk in Seattle mentioned that much of the
heavily muscled upper arm in T. rex would have been buried in flesh.

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-cosa-serve-il-braccio-di-tyrannosaurus.html
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Koshisaurus, ornithopod from Japan

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001996623

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7-meter long Proa (iguanodont) skeleton with 70 percent original
fossil bones to be mounted for display at Dinópolis Teruel , first
original fossil skeleton to be mounted in Spain (rather than casts).
More than 12 fossil specimens of Proa have been found. (in Spanish)

http://www.aragondigital.es/noticia.asp?notid=130383&secid=30

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2405135/0/territorio-dinopolis-arranca-temporada-con-primer-esqueleto-original-dinosaurio-montado-espana/

http://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/noticias/aragon/dinopolis-abre-temporada-primer-esqueleto-original-montado-espana_1011700.html

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Titanosaur femur found in Uberaba in Brazil (in Portuguese)

http://www.diariodepernambuco.com.br/app/noticia/brasil/2015/03/12/interna_brasil,565724/fragmento-de-titanossauro-e-descoberto-em-uberaba.shtml

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Making dinosaur models  quickly with 3D printing (note pronated hands, though)


http://www.engineeringcapacity.com/news101/business-news/dinosaur-project-for-kwsp



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Scientific names meant as insults

http://io9.com/these-scientific-names-were-chosen-purely-to-insult-cer-1691360201