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[dinosaur] Swiss dinosaur tracks + smallest Plateosaurus specimen + sabertooth lips + more





Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:



Dinosaur tracks that delayed motorway (now open) in Switzerland, with interviews and videos (English narration)

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/fossils-vs-fuel_dinosaur-delayed-motorway-finally-opens/43083978

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Dinosaur tracks in Bexar County in Texas 

http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/history-culture/article/Secrets-of-dinosaur-tracks-at-state-natural-area-11047259.php


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Do tracks in Mexico show gradual decline of dinosaurs before K-Pg impact?


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403135935.htm


https://idw-online.de/de/news670810

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"Fabian," the smallest Plateosaurus specimen known (2 meters long),  found at Frick in Switzerland, will be prepared and displayed (in about two years) at the Sauriermuseum Frick (in German)


http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/fricktal/plateosaurier-fabian-roehrt-im-museum-schon-bald-um-die-wette-131189241


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Daspletosaurus: ontogeny of new species

http://tyrannosauroideacentral.blogspot.com/2017/04/introducing-daspletosaurus-horneri-two_3.html


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Michael Benton on new dinosaur classification

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/dinosaur-tree-rewrite

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Sabertooth lips and the proposed "bulldog" look reexamined...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/drawing-out-a-sabercats-smile/



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Video:

Mass Extinctions, Ray-Finned Fishes, and the Closing of Romer's Gap
Royal Tyrrell Museum 
Conrad Wilson, University of Calgary 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyON-mx9Loo

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Liaoning Paleontology Museum (in Chinese)

http://travel.people.com.cn/n1/2017/0404/c41570-29187542.html


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More on proposed moratorium on fossils digs at Messel site in Germany, to assess impact on status of Messel Pit as a UNESCO World Heritage site; future fossil excavations may be more restricted (in German)


http://hessenschau.de/panorama/grabungssaison-in-grube-messel-droht-auszufallen,grabungspause-messel-100.html