Pterosaurs take-offs on water + end-Cretaceous cooling in Chile + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent news and blog items:

Mark Witton looks at pterosaurs take-offs on water

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-ornithocheirus-simus-and-other.html

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Coelophysis and search for micofossils of juvenile archosaurs

http://naturalselectionsblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/triassic-thursday-i-introduction-and.html?spref=tw


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Evidence from Chile for major cooling at the very end of the
Cretaceous, based on plant fossils

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2015/03/06/chilean-scientists-earth-cooling-and-dinosaurs-disappearance-are-linked/

http://www.efe.com/efe/noticias/english/technology/chilean-scientists-earth-cooling-and-dinosaurs-disappearance-are-linked/4/1061/2554967

In Spanish:

https://prensaantartica.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/chilenos-confirman-conexion-entre-antartica-y-sudamerica-al-fin-de-la-era-de-los-dinosaurios/

http://www.republica.com/2015/03/05/confirman-en-chile-el-vinculo-entre-enfriamiento-terrestre-y-el-fin-de-los-dinosaurios/


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Concavenator model "Pepito" on display (in Spanish)

http://godzillin.blogspot.com/2015/03/la-semana-fantastica-de-concavenator.html

http://www.clm24.es/articulo/cuenca/castilla-mancha-una-reproduccion-dinosaurio-pepito-podra-ver-todo-fin-semana-diputacion-cuenca/20150305220805075393.html

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Dinosaur colors (in Czech)

http://www.osel.cz/index.php?clanek=8098

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Paleoart in the Smithsonian collection

http://paleobiology.si.edu/paleoArt/index.htm

http://paleobiology.si.edu/paleoArt/Historical/Highlights/haydiplo.html


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Pleurobot robotic salamander could give insights into early tetrapod evolution


http://biorob.epfl.ch/pleurobot

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-pleurobot-salamander-like-robot-lifelike-motion.html

http://techxplore.com/news/2015-03-pleurobot-salamander-like-robot-lifelike-motion.html

http://www.industrytap.com/pleurobot-mimics-salamander-allowing-easily-move-land-water/27001

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Dinosaurs at Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, with photogallery (in Japanese)

http://www.jiji.com/jc/v4?id=dinosaur0001

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Laiyang Cretaceous National Geopark construction underway to highlight
dinosaurs and fossil trees in Shandong Province, China (in Chinese)

http://news.shm.com.cn/2015-03/04/content_4309982.htm