[dinosaur] Titanosaurs + dino eggs + Thanatotheristes + Silesaurus + Miocene cats + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

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Your Friends The Titanosaurs, part 21: Nullotitan, Opisthocoelicaudia, and Overosaurus

https://equatorialminnesota.blogspot.com/2020/02/your-friends-titanosaurs-21-nullotitan-opisthocoelicaudia-overosaurus.html

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Were dinosaurs warm blooded? Their eggshells say yes

https://news.yale.edu/2020/02/14/were-dinosaurs-warm-blooded-their-eggshells-say-yes

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Fossil Eggshells Provide Evidence of Warm Body Temperatures in Dinosaurs

https://royaltyrrellmuseum.wpcomstaging.com/2020/02/14/fossil-eggshells-provide-evidence-of-warm-body-temperatures-in-dinosaurs/

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Berkeley Lab Helps Reveal How Dinosaur Blood Vessels Can Preserve Through the Ages

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/02/14/dinosaur-blood-vessels/

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Introducing Thanatotheristes degrootorum, the Reaper of Death

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/introducing-thanatotheristes-degrootorum-the-reaper-of-death/

"Reaper of death" dinosaur discovered in Alberta (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP30eN4MUDE

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Storm reveals possible Neovenator track on Isle of Wight

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dinosaur-footprint-neovenator-fossil-storm-ciara-isle-of-wight-a9336801.html

https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/18234107.dinosaur-footprint-uncovered-sandown-following-storm-ciara/

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The top 6 places in the world to go dinosaur hunting

https://nypost.com/2020/02/15/the-top-6-places-in-the-world-to-go-dinosaur-hunting/

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Dinosaur hunting in Alberta, Canada (in German)

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/reise/kanada-alberta-dinosaurier-1.4792689

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Lawmaker seeking $10M for a new Utahraptor State Park

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2020/02/14/lawmaker-seeking-m-new/

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New Mexicoâs Museum of Natural History and Science is needing your help naming their animatronic Bisti Beast dinosaur

https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/museum-of-natural-history-searching-for-name-for-robotic-dinosaur/

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Visiting the dinosaurs: Museum has a huge collection of fossils, plus exhibits on more recent Montana history

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/feb/15/visiting-the-dinosaurs/

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Dinosaurs from Tanzania and the German colonial heritage controversy, including Giraffatitan skeleton in Berlin Museum of Natural History (in German)

https://www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitrag/2020/02/kolonialzeit-tendaguru-berlin-naturkundemuseum-dinosaurier-tansania.html

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T. rex Tristan Otto travels to Copenhagen in 30 crates

https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/about/news/t-rex-tristan-otto-travels-copenhagen-30-crates

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The tallest animal of all time (Sauroposeidon proteles) (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2020/02/14/nejvyssi-zivocich-vsech-dob/

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Polish paleontologists show Silesaurus had forelimbs tucked under its body, not sprawledÂ

in English

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/4x4-skeleton-of-dinosaur-dug-up-in-silesia-indicates-ancestors-of-dinosaurs-were-four-legged-not-two-10512

In Polish

https://www.uw.edu.pl/nowa-koncepcja-powstania-dinozaurow/

http://naukawpolsce.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C80710%2Cnaukowcy-z-uw-dinozaury-powstaly-bezposrednio-z-czworonoznych-zwierzat.html

https://dzienniknaukowy.pl/nauka-w-polsce/naukowcy-z-uniwersytetu-warszawskiego-zaproponowali-nowa-koncepcje-powstania-dinozaurow

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videos:

Paleontologist Stuart Sumida Âdiscusses about how artists and scientists work together (or not) to make fun and accurate dinosaur films like Jurassic World.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDyGCVhX30

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The Dinosauria Collection: Behind the design of the new coins
Robert Nicholls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22_czx7ZS6s

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Non-dino

Miocene (Pt 18): Return of the Cats

https://synapsida.blogspot.com/2020/02/miocene-pt-18-return-of-cats.html

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video:

Fossil Elephants of Deep Time featuring Smithsonian Paleontologist Advait Jukar

Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwh492T9kLI

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The OrdovicianâSilurian Extinction Event

https://royaltyrrellmuseum.wpcomstaging.com/2020/02/05/the-ordovician-silurian-extinction-event/

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On a sad note, Riley Black's long-running blog Laelaps is being cut from the Scientific American website and apparently it won't be revived somewhere else. Let's hope the always useful past posts remain available online...