[dinosaur] Could Dinosaurs Fly? + Sauropodomorpha explainer + fossil iridescent feathers + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Could Dinosaurs Fly? With Michael Habib, from SVP 2016 presentation

http://www.livescience.com/57056-could-dinosaurs-fly.html

Could Dinosaurs Fly?

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Sauropodomorpha explainer in Fossil Focus

http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/articles/2016/fossil-focus-sauropodomorpha/

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Fossil bird with iridescent feathers

http://www.eartharchives.org/articles/paleontologists-find-fossil-bird-with-iridescent-feathers/

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In New Jersey, Kids Help Dig For Fossils In An Unlikely Place, with Ken Lacovara

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/25/503361268/in-new-jersey-kids-help-dig-for-fossils-in-an-unlikely-place

Evolutionary biomechanics of the dinosaur hand project

http://london-nerc-dtp.org/2016/08/10/evolutionary-biomechanics-of-the-dinosaur-hand/

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Richard L. Cifelli, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History’s curator of vertebrate paleontology, honored with Joseph T. Gregory Award for outstanding service to the welfare of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

http://www.kswo.com/story/33820258/sam-noble-museum-curator-receives-national-service-award

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Concavenator "Pepito" in 3D (in Spanish)

http://cadenaser.com/emisora/2016/11/29/ser_cuenca/1480414330_618262.html

Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvaWi9bQOhY

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Which fossil belongs to which animal? Picture gallery quiz (in German)

https://web.de/magazine/wissen/fossil-gehoert-tier-32021452

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Evolution at the Zoo (with mammal evolution chart)

https://pseudoplocephalus.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/australosphenida.png

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Some non-dino mammal news items that may be interest:

On the track of Smilodon, at last!

Smilodon walked on its toes, with a dewclaw that touched the ground...

https://chasingsabretooths.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/on-the-track-of-smilodon-at-last/

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Two Eocene ancestral horse fossils found (in 2015 and 2016) at Messel site in Germany may be new species (the larger one likely a Propalaeotherium), distinct from well known Eurohippus; announced at press conference at Hessischen Landesmuseums in Darmstadt; to date, 63 fossils of primitive horse-relatives have been uncovered at the site (in German)

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/region/darmstadt-nach-30-jahren-zwei-neue-urpferdchen-14544003.html

http://www.giessener-anzeiger.de/politik/hessen/urpferdfundstaette-nummer-1_17495312.htm

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Bristle [Briss-lee] Mammoth from Michigan farm is 15,000 years old, with signs of butchery by Pre-Clovis humans

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/mammoth-discovery-could-revise-earliest-date-of-humans-in-the-americas/