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[dinosaur] How Birds Evolved from Dinosaurs + Luis Chiappe interview + popularizing paleontology + more





Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


Some recent items:



How Birds Evolved from Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte (with expandable chart)


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-birds-evolved-from-dinosaurs/

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From China, a Flock of Fossils, interview with Luis Chiappe


http://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/from-china-a-flock-of-fossils/

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Mark Witton on popularizing paleontology

http://www.poppalaeo.com/blogposts/2016/12/20/the-popularity-of-dinosaurs-for-better-for-worse

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-popularity-of-dinosaurs-for-better.html



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How sauropods gobbled their way to gigantism

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/12/19/how-sauropods-gobbled-their-way-to-gigantism/

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Long-necked sauropod related to brachiosaurs under study in Spain, neck estimated at 11 meters in length; found in Burgos Province, Spain;  paper may be published in 2017  (in Spanish)

http://noticiasdelaciencia.com/not/22310/estudian-un-dinosaurio-de-cuello-extremadamente-largo-custodiado-en-el-museo-de-salas-de-los-infantes/

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Hidden Sea Dragons: Discovering new species of ichthyosaurs in museum collections


http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/hidden-sea-dragons-discovering-new-species-of-ichthyosaurs-in-museum-collections/

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Plesiosaurs from the Lower Jurassic of Greenland

http://lusodinos.blogspot.com/2016/12/plesiossauros-do-jurassico-inferior-na.html



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PLOS Paleo Top 10 OA Fossil Vertebrates #4: Lohuecosuchus


http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/12/18/new-fossil-croc-on-the-block-plos-paleo-community/

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The ‘Not-so-Simple’ Crocodylomorphs



https://sheepishpalaeontologist.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/the-not-so-simple-crocodylomorphs/


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Captorhinid from Mallorca (in Spanish)

http://ultimahora.es/noticias/sociedad/2016/12/20/237870/hallado-serra-tramuntana-raro-fosil-reptil-hace-260-millones-anos.html



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Videos in Spanish

New ceratopsian found in Mexico

http://www.ngenespanol.com/video/videos-national/16/12/13/periodo-cretacico-dinosaurios-ceratopsidos-articulo-de-portada-national-geographic/

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Process of fossilization explained

http://www.ngenespanol.com/video/videos-national/16/12/19/como-se-fosilizan-los-huesos/


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Ilia Khel' online article looks a bit suspiciously similar to recent article by Nick Longrich on why there were so many species of dinosaurs... (in Russian)

http://hi-news.ru/research-development/pochemu-bylo-tak-mnogo-vidov-dinozavrov.html


Nick Longrich's article

https://theconversation.com/why-were-there-so-many-dinosaur-species-67887