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[dinosaur] Utahraptor State Park plans + T. rex + Jurassic "killer turtle" from Germany + more




Ben Creisler


Some recent items:

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THIS MESOZOIC MONTH: NOVEMBER 2018



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Stephen Brusatte
How brains, not brawn, helped the Tyrannosaur become king


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Updated mount of T. rex "Sue" to go back on display on Dec. 21, 2018 at Field Museum



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What's Behind The Scenes Of The Carnegie Museum Of Natural History? (with audio and video)


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Out of the deep:Â A new exhibit at Oxford Museum paints a fascinating picture of prehistoric marine life in England.


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'Permian Monsters' explores life before the dinosaurs at new Florida Museum in Gainsville, Florida


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Museum of Idaho to host traveling exhibition Darwin and Dinosaurs


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DinoFest 2019Â January 26-27, 2019 at Natural History Museum of UtahÂ



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Paleontologist Bolortsetseg Minjin is fighting to restore Mongoliaâs rich natural heritage: dinosaur fossils.


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Dazzle Like a Diamond in the Rough: The Evolution of Iridescent Plumage




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More Early Cretaceous fossil eggs from either birds or dinosaurs found at site near Tamba City in Japan; Hyogo Museum of Nature and Human Activities plans new survey of area in January and is asking for volunteers; if fossil bones are found, they may show what laid the eggs (in Japanese)



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Puertasaurus reuili (in Czech)Â



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Helveticosaurus: the small-headed, long-armed Triassic marine reptile that just wants to be your friend :(



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Two-headed Hyphalosaurus fossil from China (in Russian)


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New, undescribed species of Jurassic "killer turtle" with sharp hooked lower beak tip to go on display at Dinosaurier Museum AltmÃhltal (I can't find much info for now except for artwork--maybe there's an abstract from a conference...) (in German)



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Augmented reality promises to rescue dying museums â so why don't visitors want to use it?


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non-dino....

Messel Pit (in German)

Messel Pit now has UNESCO World Heritage site status for its Eocene fossils, but needed legal fight in the 1980s to be saved from becoming a landfillÂ


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Volunteers in local museum association (that helped save Messel) now struggle to maintain their own organization and Messel museum in competition with official Visitor Information Center (opened 2010)ÂÂ





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Videos:


Sea monsters are real! Well...they used to be (mainly mosasaurs)
Smithsonianâs National Museum of Natural History

Science Magic Show
Louis Jacobs and Michael Polcyn interviews




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How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees



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