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[dinosaur] Confuciusornis diet + Triassic treasures from Antarctica + Magyarosuchus + more




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


Some recent items:


Fossil Friday Roundup: May 11, 2018


http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2018/05/11/fossil-friday-roundup-may-11-2018/


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Did Confuciusornis Really Eat Fish? The Mysteries of Mesozoic Bird Diets


https://albertonykus.blogspot.com/2018/05/did-confuciusornis-really-eat-fish.html


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Basal thyreophoran osteoderm found in the Middle Jurassic of Luxembourg

http://dracopelta.blogspot.pt/2018/04/basal-thyreophoran-osteoderm-found-in.html


Also:


http://www.tageblatt.lu/headlines/forscher-entdecken-dino-knochen-bei-ruemelingen/




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New Triassic treasures from Antarctica

Burke Museum in Seattle:

Going to the end of the Earth to uncover fossil life

http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/going-end-earth-uncover-fossil-life

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Fossil hunters show off Triassic treasures from Antarctica at the Burke Museum

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/fossil-hunters-show-off-triassic-treasures-antarctica-burke-museum/

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=OX2RtqFKrmc

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Los Angeles County Natural History Museum

Fossils Fresh from AntarcticaÂ

https://nhm.org/site/research-collections/news/fossils-fresh-antarctica

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New mega-dinosaur [Patagotitan] at Field Museum is named Maximo, unveiled June 1

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-ent-field-museum-titanosaur-name-0512-story.html


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Updated exhibits display collection of marine reptiles from the Ulyanovsk region of Russia. New museum planned for 2021 after scandal and controversy with Undory Paleontological Museum (in Russian)

http://ulgrad.ru/?p=170968


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Magyarosuchus

https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2018/jurassic-fossil-missing-link-crocodile-family-tree

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-jurassic-fossil-tail-link-crocodile.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/jurassic-crocodile-missing-link-hungary-fossils-a8345171.html

In Hungarian, with lots of photos...

http://www.origo.hu/tudomany/20180510-nem-ez-az-egyetlen-vilagviszonylatban-is-jelentos-magyarorszagi-osmaradvany.htmlÂÂ

https://index.hu/tudomany/2018/05/10/22_ev_utan_nevet_kapott_a_gerecsei_oskrokodil/

photo gallery

https://galeria.index.hu/tudomany/2018/05/10/magyarosuchus_fitosi_a_gerecsei_oskrokodil/


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Paleontology Museum Curator, Dr. Andy Farke @AndyFarke: A Day in the GeoLife Series


http://rockheadsciences.com/farke-museum-curator/


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Meeting taking place in London today (May 11)

Society for Integrative and Comparative BiologyÂ
Division of Vertebrate Morphology
First European Regional Meeting, London, UK


https://sicbdvm.wixsite.com/london

Program (no abstracts for now...)

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b2f441_da410b7538d642f4b646bc1f813b34cb.pdf




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Dinoblog meeting planned for 7th and 8th of July in EspÃraza, France (in French)

http://www.dinosauria.org/blog/2018/05/10/les-rencontres-du-dinoblog-programme/


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We still live in the age of dinosaurs

Some dinosaurs managed to survive mass extinction 66 million years ago (book review)
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/we-still-live-in-the-age-of-dinosaurs/

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Also, non-dino videos that may be of interest...


The Carnian Pluvial EpisodeÂ
Jacopo Dal Corso (University of Leeds, UK)
Lyell 2018:Â Geological Society

14:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYef6Y_OmI

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The Devonian mass extinction: new geochemical and geochronicalogical insights
Lawrence Percival (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Lyell 2018:Â Geological Society

15:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUEzLOfp2A


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The Terrestrial Record of the End Devonian Mass Extinction Event
John Marshall (University of Southampton, UK)
Lyell 2018:ÂÂGeological SocietyÂ

16:08


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Z3PWIqnyY


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Evolution of spitting cobras | Natural History Museum (convergent evolution in venomous snakes)

10:30 min.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6mD9vfsX6o



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Evolution & Common Misconceptions About Primates

Dr. K. Christopher Beard

59 min.

Âhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oPLPe7oVnc