Ben Creisler
Some recent items:
Ankylosaurs dug into the ground to protect themselves, University of Alberta paleontologist Phil Currie says (with audio)
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Rare pachycephalosaur Spaerotholus skull discovered by Missouri educator and students in Montana (with video)
https://fox2now.com/news/rare-dinosaur-skull-discovered-by-missouri-educator-and-students/
Karenites, therocephalian from Permian of Russia (in Russian)
Utahraptor State Park approved
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The New Utahraptor State Park Has Mountain Biking Trails and Dinosaur Bones
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/utahraptor-state-park-has-mountain-biking-trails-and-dinosaur-bones
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Dinosaurs in Ireland with Dr Mike Simms
National Museums NI
Unraveling the biology of extinct animals using bone histologyÂÂ
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Free pdf:
Mark H. Armitage (2021)
First Report of Peripheral Nerves in Bone from Triceratops horridus Occipital Condyle.
Microscopy Today 29(2): 20-25
doi:10.1017/S1551929521000468
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-today/article/first-report-of-peripheral-nerves-in-bone-from-triceratops-horridus-occipital-condyle/AE0FA022206E67ED3B53A24A9071967D
Peripheral nerves in vertebrate systems have been studied for centuries. Nerve anatomy, including the connective tissues that cushion nerves, are well described in the literature. The outer connective tissues, known as the epineurium and perineurium, include a double layer of collagen fibers that form a double helical wrapping that is visible with polarized light microscopy and by other contrast methods. This wrapping is a diagnostic characteristic of nerve tissues. Decades of research into dinosaur bones have produced interesting endocasts of probable brain morphology, but no soft and flexible nerve tissues have been reported from dinosaur remains. In this study we provide evidence of nerve fragments, characterized by a double helical wrapping of collagen fibers, from a Triceratops condyle collected at the Hell Creek Formation, MT. Based on comparison with nerves from an avian model we conclude that these are fragments of nerves that once resided in vivo in Triceratops.
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https://fox2now.com/news/rare-dinosaur-skull-discovered-by-missouri-educator-and-students/
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Terrible Lizards podcast
S03E08 Your Dinosaur Questions Answered!
S03E08 Your Dinosaur Questions Answered!
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Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs Podcast Ep. 4 (Nanotyrannus, Tyrannosaurus...)
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Asfaltovenator perhaps the earliest known allosauroid (in Czech)Â
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History adds five new specimens to Cretaceous Seaway display, including juvenile plesiosaur LibonectesÂ
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Study challenges accepted notion of mammal spine evolution
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/challenging-the-lateral-to-sagittal-shift-in-mammalian-locomotion/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/challenging-the-lateral-to-sagittal-shift-in-mammalian-locomotion/
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Karenites, therocephalian from Permian of Russia (in Russian)
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Ancient Amphibians Hunted With Slingshot Tongues
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Ancient vertebrates had everything they needed to walk underwater millions of years before the transition to dry land
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Non-dino:
The forgotten dogs of South America
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How ancient "deer" lost their legs and became whales
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[Also, making a correction after offlistÂcomments that the English text line was misleading... I apparently deleted the (?) at the end when I addedÂ(in French) or did a copy and paste edit...]
The common ancestor of the hippopotamus and whales was aquatic (?) (in French)
https://theconversation.com/lancetre-commun-des-hippopotames-et-des-baleines-etait-il-aquatique-151413
https://theconversation.com/lancetre-commun-des-hippopotames-et-des-baleines-etait-il-aquatique-151413
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Utahraptor State Park approved
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The New Utahraptor State Park Has Mountain Biking Trails and Dinosaur Bones
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/utahraptor-state-park-has-mountain-biking-trails-and-dinosaur-bones
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Restoring Bears Ears National Monument in Utah
As Biden mulls reversing Trumpâs monument cuts, researchers urge him to go big
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Videos:
Evolution of the Dinosaurs
Dr Manabu Sakamoto, Senior Lecturer in Zoology
University of Lincoln, College of Science
University of Lincoln, College of Science
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Dinosaurs in Ireland with Dr Mike Simms
National Museums NI
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Unraveling the biology of extinct animals using bone histologyÂÂ
Paleontologist Dr. Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
Royal Ontario MuseumÂ
Royal Ontario MuseumÂ
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Dr. Rob Sansom, 'The Real Jurassic Park'
Earth and Environmental Sciences Manchester
Earth and Environmental Sciences Manchester
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Marine Life in a Cretaceous Arctic Ecosystem
Polar DinoFest DinoBite Speaker Karen Chin
Polar DinoFest DinoBite Speaker Karen Chin
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Online talk by VladimÃr Socha about Czech dinosaur discoveries (including basal ornithopod Buranosaurus and megalosauroid theropod tooth) (in Czech)
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How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
PBS Eons
PBS Eons
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Clever Mary: The Song of Mary Anning, A Hero of Paleontology
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NOTE: This article is by a controversial researcher. Posting it to the DML is not an endorsement of his ideas expressed outside of scientific literature. This paper does not express the researcher's personal interpretations of fossil dates. Microscopy Today is a semi-technical trade magazine and not a peer-reviewed purely technical journal,Âso this article would have less formal status but still may be of interest. Claims of preserved internal soft tissue and organic residues or other nonmineralized structures in dinosaur bone fossils have been made by a number of paleontologists and other researchers.
NOTE: This article is by a controversial researcher. Posting it to the DML is not an endorsement of his ideas expressed outside of scientific literature. This paper does not express the researcher's personal interpretations of fossil dates. Microscopy Today is a semi-technical trade magazine and not a peer-reviewed purely technical journal,Âso this article would have less formal status but still may be of interest. Claims of preserved internal soft tissue and organic residues or other nonmineralized structures in dinosaur bone fossils have been made by a number of paleontologists and other researchers.
Free pdf:
Mark H. Armitage (2021)
First Report of Peripheral Nerves in Bone from Triceratops horridus Occipital Condyle.
Microscopy Today 29(2): 20-25
doi:10.1017/S1551929521000468
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-today/article/first-report-of-peripheral-nerves-in-bone-from-triceratops-horridus-occipital-condyle/AE0FA022206E67ED3B53A24A9071967D
Peripheral nerves in vertebrate systems have been studied for centuries. Nerve anatomy, including the connective tissues that cushion nerves, are well described in the literature. The outer connective tissues, known as the epineurium and perineurium, include a double layer of collagen fibers that form a double helical wrapping that is visible with polarized light microscopy and by other contrast methods. This wrapping is a diagnostic characteristic of nerve tissues. Decades of research into dinosaur bones have produced interesting endocasts of probable brain morphology, but no soft and flexible nerve tissues have been reported from dinosaur remains. In this study we provide evidence of nerve fragments, characterized by a double helical wrapping of collagen fibers, from a Triceratops condyle collected at the Hell Creek Formation, MT. Based on comparison with nerves from an avian model we conclude that these are fragments of nerves that once resided in vivo in Triceratops.
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