[dinosaur] Huinculsaurus + Gunakadeit + Polish-Mongolian Expeditions + Crystal Palace dinos +more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Huinculsaurus montesi Baiano, Coria & Cau, 2020 (in Italian)

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2020/02/huinculsaurus-montesi-baiano-coria-e.html

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Deinocheirus: "Nine-ton hunchback duck" of the Gobi desert (in Czech)Â

https://www.stoplusjednicka.cz/prizrak-z-gobi-honba-za-devititunovou-hrbatou-kachnou

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Heterodontosaurids - dinosaurs with differing teeth (in Czech)Â

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2020/02/07/jesteri-s-rozmanitymi-zuby/

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Dynamosuchus

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/02/rare-fossil-bone-crushing-crocodile-cousin-found-brazil/

https://www.sdpnoticias.com/estilo-de-vida/reptil-cocodrilo-lagarto-fosil-prehistorico-rio-grande-brasil.html

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Wing swing, not shape, is key to bird flight

https://jeb.biologists.org/content/223/3/jeb211441

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Brian Engh and Matt Wedel talk Brach-straction on the I Know Dino podcast

https://svpow.com/2020/02/05/brian-engh-and-matt-wedel-talk-brach-straction-on-the-i-know-dino-podcast/

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Yale Peabodyâs dinosaurs head to Canada for some TLC (with video)

https://news.yale.edu/2020/02/06/yale-peabodys-dinosaurs-head-canada-some-tlc

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Preparation work on Plateosaurus skeleton for Vienna Museum of Natural History includes creating missing bones with 3D printing (in German)

https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20200207_OTS0116/einladung-zum-pressetermin-saurier-knochen-als-3d-scan-am-nhm-wien-bild

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Life-size model of Wiehenvenator ("Monster of Minden") added at MÃnster Westphalian Museum of Natural History (LWL-Museum fÃr Naturkunde) (in German)

https://www.szlz.de/region/aus-der-region-szlz_artikel,-groesster-raubsaurier-deutschlands-enthuellt-_arid,2604541.html

https://www.die-glocke.de/lokalnachrichten/regionales/Saurier-Wiehenvenator-in-Muenster-enthuellt-035ea2bc-26d6-44e0-8234-e79a80382146-ds

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Gunakadeit, new sharp-snouted thalattosaurÂ

https://waxing-paleontological.blogspot.com/2020/02/marine-snouters-of-triassic-ii.html

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/sharp-nosed-marine-reptile-a-triassic-surprise/

https://www.livescience.com/tweezers-nose-triassic-reptile.html

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/02/06/a-new-southeast-alaska-dinosaur-species-has-been-given-a-tlingit-name/

https://www.juneauempire.com/news/ancient-species-found-near-kake-given-tlingit-name/

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/02/04/new-thalattosaur-species-discovered-in-southeast-alaska/

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In The Field â Polish-Mongolian Expeditions 1963 -- 1971 (Part 2)

http://www.palaeocast.com/polish-mongolian-expeditions-2/

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The world's first dinosaur park: what the Victorians got right and wrong (at the Crystal Palace)

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/crystal-palace-dinosaurs.html

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Mary Anning and Mary Mantell (and Mary Somerville), women with overlooked contributions to science

https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/18660

Also:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51399835

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Berlin "Brachiosaurus": interview with Abdallah Possi about returning objects collected during the colonial period Âto Tanzania (in German)

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/tansania-dinosaurier-rueckgabe-1.4785538

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Research voyage brings Zealandia secrets to the surface

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-voyage-zealandia-secrets-surface.html

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Videos

PBS NOVA program Polar Extremes can be viewed online for a limited time at this link:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/polar-extremes/

Includes some dinosaur and other paleo content.

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How South America Made the Marsupials
PBS Eons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5doyrUWFbE

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Nanotyrannus and the Ontogeny of Tyrannosaurus rex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBEp4iFvXqA

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Looking Back and Looking Forward: the History of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum with Ross Secord

talk starts at 8:32

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB80Oi3O_Rc