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[dinosaur] Podokesaurus to be MA dino + Antarctica fossils + Palaeontological Association talks + more




Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

SUE: The T. rex Experience exhibit comes to Denver Museum of Nature and Science

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sue-the-t-rex-experience-exhibition-opening-feb-12-at-the-denver-museum-of-nature--science-transports-guests-to-the-late-cretaceous-world-of-this-famous-fossil-301222838.html

https://www.dmns.org/visit/exhibitions/sue-the-t-rex-experience/

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First reconstruction of a non-avian dinosaur cloaca (in Czech)
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https://dinosaurusblog.com/2021/02/05/prvni-rekonstrukce-dinosauri-kloaky/


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Choosing the Massachusetts State Dinosaur: Podokesaurus wins (actual fossil specimen was lost in a fire in 1917, though)


https://www.masslive.com/politics/2021/02/massachusetts-state-dinosaur-podokesaurus-holyokensis-wins-fan-vote-lawmaker-to-file-legislation-to-officially-declare-state-dinosaur.html

Video from Boston Museum of Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POV0xL45emc&t=196s

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Lyme Regis Mary Anning statue fundraiser hits fundraising target of Â100,000

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-55953490 Â


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A Single Altered Gene Can Make Fish Fins More Like Limbs
Researchers find a mutation that offers clues to the ancient sea-to-land transition of vertebrates

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/single-altered-gene-can-make-fish-fins-more-limbs-180976921/

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Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution
University College Cork palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been shaped by microscopic melanin pigments.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/ucc-fps020421.php

https://www.ucc.ie/en/news/fossil-pigments-shed-new-light-on-vertebrate-evolution-ucc-study-finds.html

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Tectonic timelapse
This just in: one billion years of Earthâs history in 40 seconds.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/earth-sciences/tectonic-timelapse/

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Earth Notes: 3D Printed Microfossils from the Triassic (with audio)

https://www.knau.org/post/earth-notes-3d-printed-microfossils

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Videos

No yet mentioned:

The Palaeontological Association December 2020 online meeting talks

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePalaeontologicalAssociation/videos

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Here are some Mesozoic and Paleozoic tetrapod talks with time slots on multiple session videos:

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1:50
Using computer flow simulations to explore the hydrodynamics of extreme body morphology and size in derived Mesozoic marine reptiles
Susana Gutarra Diaz, Thomas L. Stubbs, Benjamin C. Moon, Colin Palmer and Michael J. Benton

21:00
Resolving the pterosaur bauplan using a quantitative taphonomic approach
Rachel Belben

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UflTB8YQ75s

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0:00
The cranial anatomy of Qianzhousaurus sinensis
William Foster, Stephen L. Brusatte and LÃ Junchang

14:17
Micro-computed tomography of the aÃstopods from the Jarrow Assemblage, Ireland
AodhÃn à GogÃin, Patrick N. Wyse Jackson and John Murray

27:25
Constraining quadrupedal launch: range of motion in Coloborhynchus
Benjamin Griffin, Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, Oliver E. Demuth, Colin Palmer and Emily J. Rayfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoIFDZ0N40g

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14:43
ÂCould the bat-winged dinosaurs fly? An assessment of powered flight ability in the Scansoriopterygidae
Sophia Anderson, Stephen L. Brusatte and Graeme D. Ruxton

9:05
How reliable are bite force estimates in extinct dinosaurs and mammals?
Manabu Sakamoto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEe3XPw7CEk

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5:18
Two-dimensional dental microwear indicates different feeding behaviours amongst three mosasaur taxa of the Campanian Bearpaw Fm., Alberta, Canada
Femke M. Holwerda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejIR9frzF-4
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30:00Â
Reassessment of the evolutionary history of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs
Omar Rafael Regalado Fernandez, Paul Upchurch, , Philip D. Mannion, Paul M. Barrett and Susannah C. R. Maidment

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

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1:15
Evolutionary and ontogenetic changes of the anatomical organization and
modularity in the skull of archosaurs
Hiu Wai Lee, Borja Esteve-Altava and Arkhat Abzhanov

5:00
Ontogenetic patterns of the crocodylian palate (Eusuchia, Crocodylia)
Ane de Celis, IvÃn NarvÃez, Alejandro Serrano-MartÃnez and Francisco Ortega

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-c2-Ub61Vw
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0:00 Introduction

0:23
A Late Jurassic marine reptile fauna from Helmsdale, Scotland
Kim Kean, Stephen L. Brusatte and Davide Foffa

18:35
Challenging hegemonic narratives: the rise of the naked pterosaur
David M. Unwin

34:05
The first age of reptiles? Comparing reptile and synapsid diversity during the Carboniferous and early Permian
Neil Brocklehurst

51:05
The evolution of body shape, locomotion and ecology in terrestrial vertebrates
Alice Maher, Philip G. Cox, Thomas Maddox and Karl T. Bates

1:07:35Â
Early tetrapods: testing the boundaries
Michael I. Coates, Benjamin Otoo, Vishruth Venkataramen, Kailin Wu, Peishu Li and Reese Fulgenzi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw7d6Rj_bcU

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Some additional recent videos:


(Cretaceous) "Dinosaurs and the Seas Between Them" w/ Andrew McDonald, PhD.Â
Fossil Friday Chats
Alf Museum (main talk starts about 12 min in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjFz18HPqsw

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Polar DinoFest DinoBite Speaker Nate Smith
"From Dicynodonts to Dinosaurs: Evolution and Biogeography of Early Mesozoic Faunas of Antarctica"
Natural History Museum of Utah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiMUL0L6MgY


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The New News on Spinosaurus
Raptor Chatter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNYH8TxNWAk

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(This video was posted earlier in a news story but was moved on YouTube and the old link does not work)

Triceratops: 67 Million years in the making
Museums Victoria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRlle-VW-_g

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Science Breaks: How the shark lost its bones (and maybe why): Martin Brazeau
Imperial College London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L1-vPxj-DI



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