[dinosaur] Pterosaurs + Parasaurolophus skull + Niebla + tetrapod origins + more

Ben Creisler

Some recent items:

Terrible Lizards podcast: S03E02 Pterosaurs (with Dave Hone)

https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/s03e02-ptserosaurs

Jurassic pterosaur Scaphognathus is "Fossil of the Year 2021" for the German PalÃontologische Gesellschaft (Paleontological Society) (in German)

https://www.palaeontologische-gesellschaft.de/ueber-uns/fossil-des-jahres/

NOTE: There should be an English language version posted here at some point (older "Fossil of the Year" selections are archived in English--2020 was Archaeopteryx):

https://www.palaeontologische-gesellschaft.de/en/about-us/fossil-of-the-year/

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Dinosaurs on the Wing featuring paleontologist Jordan Mallon (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fW5YZjKIxs&t=12s

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PeerJ talks to Joseph W. Sertich about new Parasaurolophus study (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEF7NbcbYPk

Dinosaurs may have 'flashed' each other with their bottoms, newly discovered fossil shows

https://theconversation.com/dinosaurs-may-have-flashed-each-other-with-their-bottoms-newly-discovered-fossil-shows-153484

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Dinosaur footprint rock found by 4-year-old girl on Barry beach in Wales damaged with sledgehammers and crowbars

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-55909015

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Matt Wedel on the monster Barosaurus vertebra publication saga...
A funny thing happened on the way to the Shiny Digital Future

https://svpow.com/2021/02/04/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-shiny-digital-future/

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(in Czech)

Fastest running dinosaur would easily outrun Olympic sprinters (Struthiomimus)Â

https://veda.instory.cz/1527-nejrychlejsi-dinosaurus-sveta-by-snadno-predbehl-i-dnesni-olympijske-sprintery.html

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Tyrannosaurus rex "Sue" suffered with osteomyelitis and lived to 33 years of age

https://techfocus.cz/veda-vesmir/2855-krale-dinosauru-trapil-zanet-kostni-drene-podle-vedcu-se-slavna-sue-dozila-33-let.html

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Niebla, new theropod from the Rio Negro in Argentina (in Spanish)

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https://www.nationalgeographicla.com/historia/2021/01/argentina-descubren-una-nueva-especie-de-dinosaurio-carnivoro-que-fue-mas-pequena

https://noticiasnqn.com.ar/actualidad/descubren-un-nuevo-dinosaurio-carnvoro-en-ro-negro-de-70-millones-de-aos-de-antigedad.htm

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The dinosaurs of Patagonia (in Spanish)

https://fundaciondinosaurioscyl.blogspot.com/2021/02/la-patagonia-y-los-dinosaurios.html

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Xenodens: This ancient sea reptile had a slicing bite like no other

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-sea-reptile-mosasaur-fossil-razor-teeth

Annatherapsidus petri, Permian therocephalian synapsid from Russia that paleontologist Vladimir Amalitsky named for his wife Anna Petrovna (in Russian)

https://elementy.ru/kartinka_dnya/1300/Terapsid_Anny_Petrovny

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Paleo Nerds Podcast Episode #21 Out of the Ooze, Evolved to Cruise with Neil Shubin

https://www.paleonerds.com/podcast/neilshubin

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New clues emerge in how early tetrapods learned to live -- and eat -- on land

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/biological-sciences-articles/new-clues-emerge-in-how-early-tetrapods-learned

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New York Institute of Technology Research Uncovers How Ancient Animals Walked on Land

https://www.nyit.edu/box/features/uncovering_how_ancient_animals_walked_on_land

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Surprising new research: We're more like primitive fishes than once believed

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-primitive-fishes-believed.html

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Can a fin become a limb? Single mutations cause zebrafish fins to transform into complex limb-like structures

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-fin-limb-mutations-zebrafish-fins.html

Free paper link:

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00003-9

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Michael Benton: The evidence for mass extinctions
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Keynote Lecture (video)

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

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Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center: Colorado dinosaur lab builds prehistoric displays for museums around the world

https://www.outtherecolorado.com/features/colorado-dinosaur-lab-builds-prehistoric-displays-for-museums-around-the-world/article_e26ccfa4-64d6-11eb-95cb-a3d3be7e45c4.html

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Non-dino:

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Stupendemys geographicus: Turtle Knights of the Miocene

https://www.darwinsdoor.co.uk/prehistoricplanet/stupendemys-geographicus-turtle-knights-of-the-miocene.html

How flowering plants may have regulated atmospheric oxygen and wildfires

https://earthlogs.org/2021/01/29/how-flowering-plants-may-have-regulated-atmospheric-oxygen/

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Cenozoic Gallery: Exhibit Construction with Rob Holm
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCmEu-uqzc

3DVis Session 2: 3D Visualization in the Natural Sciences
Keynote Talk: Imran Rahman A Virtual World of Palaeontology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA38kxZVxb4

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