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[dinosaur] Fighting Dryptosaurus pair +Manitoba pliosaur + Isle of Wight Iguanodon skull + Apatoraptor + more (and Greenland sharks)




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


Some recent items:

Fighting Dryptosaurus (a la Knight) at New Jersey State Museum in Trenton


http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/new-jersey/96201-the-fighting-dinosaurs-of-trenton



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Iguanodon skull goes on exhibit at Sandown on the Isle of Wight 

http://www.islandecho.co.uk/news/rare-fossil-find-display-dinosaur-isle

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-37044018

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Pliosaur from Cretaceous of Manitoba goes on display at Manitoba Museum--it's under study and may be a new species

http://mytoba.ca/featured/manitoba-museum-unveils-rare-pliosaur-fossil/


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Dino of the week: Apatoraptor

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dino-of-the-week-apatoraptor-1.3716187



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More on Siberian titanosaur as new species (in English)

http://www.pravdareport.com/news/science/earth/11-08-2016/135299-dinosaur_siberia-0/

Tomsk University press release (in Russian)

http://www.tsu.ru/news/dinozavr-naydennyy-uchenymi-tgu-okazalsya-novym-vi/

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Evidence for claims about T rex. the scavenger and short-legged Spinosaurus

https://arcuff.blogspot.com/2016/08/extraordinary-claims-need-extraordinary.html

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Fossils from Cañon City's closed Dinosaur Depot  now at Royal Gorge Regional Museum and History Center in Colorado

http://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/news/canoncity-local-news/ci_30231119/dinosaur-fossils-display-celebrated-at-royal-gorge-regional


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Coprolite museum...

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/one-mans-incredible-collection-of-fossilised-poop

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Megafauna dung research

https://uwmadscience.news.wisc.edu/animals/megafauna-dung-and-mastering-science-communication/

 

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Non-dino/non-paleo, but interesting...

Greenland sharks may live more than 400 years

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-winner-longest-lived-vertebrate-award.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/these-sharks-live-to-400/495425/
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