[dinosaur] Jack Horner's retirement + Rhamphorhynchus + Missouri's rare dinosaurs + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

Celebration of Jack Horner's retirement from Museum of the Rockies

with video

http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/Museum-of-the-Rockies-celebrates-Jack-Horner-retirement/39275918

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/montana_state_university/retiring-jack-horner-celebrated-at-museum-of-the-rockies/article_f63afa3d-f8fc-54e7-a8e9-ce960629b29c.html

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Rhamphorhynchus Part 2 Mark Witton

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-lives-and-times-of-flying-reptiles.html

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Video of talk about excavating rare dinosaur fossils (hadrosaur bones, tyrannosaurid and dromaeosaur teeth) in Missouri

Monster in the Hollow - The Story of Missouri’s Ozark Dinosaurs by Professor Michael Fix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27WVtbVaUX8

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Biggest Siberian Psittacosaurus fossil skeleton (80% complete, 2.3 meters long, found in 2014) to go on display in Moscow at the Museum of Paleontology in November; skull was missing some parts and will be reconstructed on mounted skeleton; real fossil skull will be displayed separately; fossils will later be returned to Kemerovo Museum in Siberia (in Russian)

http://www.interfax.ru/russia/505855

http://www.novokuznetsk.su/news/city/1461767685

http://nash-sport.com/2016/04/28/skelet-psittakozavra-sibirskogo-predstavyat-moskovskoy.html

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New book "Viaje al Chile prehistórico" (Journey to Prehistoric Chile) features recently discovered dinosaurs (in Spanish)

http://www.elmostrador.cl/vida-en-linea/2016/04/29/el-libro-donde-los-dinosaurios-cobran-vida/

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Naming dinosaur tracks

http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/2016/4/25/what-if-anything-is-a-unicorn

Is It Possible to Clone a Dinosaur?

http://www.livescience.com/54574-can-we-clone-dinosaurs.html

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How birds survived mass extinction with beaks and seeds

https://www.audubon.org/news/how-did-ancestors-birds-survive-apocalypse

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Making a stop-action dinosaur film from 1960s (in Italian)

http://www.frizzifrizzi.it/2016/04/27/i-dinosauri-dei-film-degli-anni-sessanta/

video in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_oBI385qSE

Zhuchengosaurus maximus skeleton in Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum in China recognized by Guinness Book of Records as largest hadrosaur skeleton on display at 9.1 meters high and 16.6 meters long

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/29/c_135323444.htm

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Dinosaur Britain - Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG5iydU4QPY

Dinosaur Britain - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1gNmJ60rqY