Chicks develop dino snouts + keen-nosed Sauronitholestes + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent news and blog items:

More on making chick embryos with dromaeosaurid-looking snouts...

http://www.nature.com/news/dino-chickens-reveal-how-the-beak-was-born-1.17507

http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs/chicken-embryos-with-dino-snouts-created-in-lab-150512.htm


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New Dinosaur’s Keen Nose Made it a Formidable Predator, Penn Study Finds

http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/new-dinosaur-s-keen-nose-made-it-formidable-predator-penn-study-finds

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-dinosaur-keen-nose-formidable-predator.html

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Interview with Corwin Sullivan about Yi qi


http://www.educationworld.com/a_news/blog/beijing-boston-chatting-about-yi-qi-part-1-823951879


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Identity of American Museum of Natural History sauropod currently
called Apatosaurus...

http://svpow.com/2015/05/09/what-should-we-tell-people-about-the-amnh-apatosaurine/


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Sauropods as forest litter magnets...


http://pteroformer.blogspot.com/2015/05/my-home-sauropod-part-i-getting-filthy.html

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Possible dinosaur track found on hike

http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2015/05/holyoke_community_college_student_finds_dinosaur_track_during_geology_trek.html



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How to become a fossil

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-easy-steps-becoming-fossil-180955167/?no-ist

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New Chinese diadectid

http://english.ivpp.cas.cn/rh/rp/201505/t20150508_147095.html


(in Chinese)

http://www.uua.cn/show-10-6675-1.html




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Solnhofen exhibit at Burpee Museum (video)

http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/Burpee-Museum-Opening-New-Exhibit-303138691.html



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2014 BBC documentary with David Attenborough "Triumph of the
Vertebrates" airs in America

Interview

http://boisestatepublicradio.org/post/rise-animals-sir-david-attenborough-tells-story-vertebrates

stories

http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/david-attenboroughs-rise-of-animals-triumph-of-the-vertebrates/1003607


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/05/08/david-attenborough-on-the-great-detective-story-of-the-vertebrates/



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Dinosaur healing power

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/341517/dinosaurs-could-heal-own-bones



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Dinosaur eggs in video

http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2015/04/dinosaur_eggs_found_in_china_video.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/dinosaur-egg-china-jurrasic-park-fossil-2015-4

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Four-legged animals in Romer's Gap

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/fossils-fill-evolutionary-gap-between-fish-and-4-legged-beasts-1.3066855

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Sauropod found in Liaoning Province, China (already posted earlier in
Chinese, but now in English)

http://www.ecns.cn/2015/05-06/164323.shtml



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Ornithopod tooth found in Bolivia (in Spanish)

http://www.entornointeligente.com/articulo/5861519/Encuentran-un-diente-de-ornitoacute;podo-en-Sucre-


http://www.la-razon.com/la_revista/Paleontologia-encuentran-diente-ornitopodo-Sucre_0_2266573337.html

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High school students who found mosasaur fossil near Osaka donate
specimen to Osaka Museum of Natural History (in Japanese)

http://www.shikoku-np.co.jp/national/science_environmental/20150505000412

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Lotosaurus or "Lotto"-saurus? Skeleton attracts money in China

http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2015/05-07/164499.shtml