[dinosaur] Laser reveals pterosaur eye + sauropod neck ligaments + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent news and blog items:

What did pterosaurs and Archaeopteryx look like? Laser reveals new details

https: // www.inverse.com/article/14376-what-did-dinosaurs-look-like-tom-kaye-finds-answers-feathers-with-lasers

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MSU paleontologist Cary Woodruff says diplodocid sauropods had split spines that may have supported two elastic ligaments

http: // www.montana.edu/news/16096/msu-paleontologist-finds-that-ligaments-in-some-dinosaurs-necks-helped-them-graze-more-efficiently

 

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Italian sauropod 

http: // theropoda.blogspot.com/2016/04/nuntio-vobis-dinosaurum-magnum-habemus.html

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Herrerasaurus model and cast on display (in Spanish)

http: // www.laopiniondezamora.es/castilla-leon/2016/04/19/leon-expondra-replicas-dinosaurio-herrerasaurio/919457.html

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Retired mixed martial arts champion Georges St-Pierre  hosts Canadian dinosaur TV series 

http: // www.history.ca/the-boneyard-with-georges-st-pierre/video/lair+of+the+lizard+king/video.html?v=664794179744&p=1&s=da#the-boneyard-with-georges-st-pierre/video

http: // ww.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-palaeontologist-helps-mma-champ-hunt-dinos-1.3538046

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Uplifted and eroding ocean floor rock led to cooling 80 million years ago during Cretaceous

http: // phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-tectonic-trigger-ice-ages.html

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Human limbs started out as gill arches in ancient fish

http: // www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/04/19/Human-limbs-may-have-gotten-their-start-as-gill-arches/6341461092569/

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Therapsids

http: // chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2016/04/therapsids-and-you.html

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Dinosaurs discuss their fate

http: // www.express.co.uk/comment/beachcomber/662490/Beachcomber-99-years-old-still-as-european-dinosaur