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[dinosaur] Scipionyx return + smuggled Araripe fossils dispute + more




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


Some recent items:


Paleowire Summaries

paleontology news for last week

https://www.paleowire.com/missed-it-news-from-around-the-world-published-this-week-3/

paleontology papers for last week

https://www.paleowire.com/vertebrates-take-the-lead-once-more-new-species-reported-this-week/


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Scipionyx "Ciro" juvenile theropod fossil to return to Pietraroja, where the Parco Geopaleontologico [Geopaleontological Park] will now be properly managed to curate the fossil and make it available for research and promoted to the public; the fossil has been kept at the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage, in a former prison in Benevento (in Italian)


http://www.ilquaderno.it/istituito-l-;ente-geopaleontologico-il-dinosauro-ciro-torna-pietraroja-l-;annuncio-durante-visita-galletti-126597.html


https://www.ottopagine.it/bn/attualita/150207/ciro-il-fossile-di-dinosauro-torna-a-pietraroja.shtml


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Cretaceous fossils from Araripe returned to Brazil after being smuggled and sold in Europe become object of new dispute over where the fossils should be curated and studied; were sent to University of SÃo Paulo but researchers in Cearà (which includes Araripe Geopark)Â
want fossils returned for study in the region they came from (in Portuguese)Â

http://www.folhadaregiao.com.br/brasil/cientistas-disputam-f%C3%B3sseis-do-araripe-1.386172

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Eggshell from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation

https://gregfunston.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/eggshell-from-the-horseshoe-canyon-formation/


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Nothosaurs (in Russian)


https://golosodesa.com.ua/vchen%D1%96-rozpov%D1%96li-pro-divovijnih-notozavrah/16242


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non-dino

Ancient DNA


https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/how-it-works/the-incredible-science-of-ancient-dna/


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When it comes to extinction, body size matters

http://www.geologypage.com/2018/02/comes-extinction-body-size-matters.html

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/when-it-comes-extinction-body-size-matters





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