[dinosaur] Allosaurus won't go to Paléospace + celebrating William Fox + Phil Currie award + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

Allosaurus skeleton sells at auction in France--but won't go to Paléospace museum in Normandy

OK, this is a touchy subject with restrictions on the DML. However, the sale of an Allosaurus skeleton in Lyon, France, is now over--so it won't be promoting the auction sale per se to mention the news. The skeleton (nicknamed Kan and about 75%  complete, with a perfectly preserved skull with nearly all of its teeth) came from a ranch in Wyoming  and sold for 1,128,000 euros on Saturday. The buyer is currently unidentified (bid was by phone) but apparently intends to put in on public display somewhere next summer. The Paléospace museum in Villiers-sur-Mer in Normandie had hoped to get the specimen and had put together funding--but was outbid in the end.  (in French)

http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/1-128-million-d-euros-pour-kan-le-dinosaure-10-12-2016-2089513_23.php

http://www.lepaysdauge.fr/2016/12/10/et-si-le-paleospace-de-villers-sur-mer-accueillait-un-dinosaure-a-un-million-d-euros/

With video (showing the specimen but predating the final sale)

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/encheres/2016/12/10/03016-20161210ARTFIG00003-encheres-et-en-os-un-dinosaure-de-150-millions-d-annees-en-vente-a-lyon.php

Paléospace website

http://www.paleospace-villers.fr/

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The issue of the rich buying scientifically valuable fossils (in French)

http://www.francetvinfo.fr/animaux/hommes-d-affaires-commercants-malins-ou-riches-passionnes-qui-achete-des-squelettes-de-dinosaures-aux-encheres_1961455.html

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British dinosaur hunter Reverend William Fox to be celebrated at Dinosaur Isle  Museum on the Isle of Wight thanks to grant from Royal Society

http://www.islandecho.co.uk/news/royal-society-grant-dinosaur-isle

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Paleontologist Phil Currie awarded Governor General Meritorious Service Cross

https://www.ualberta.ca/science/science-news/2016/december/paleontologist-phil-currie-awarded-governor-general-meritorious-service-cross

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Dinosaur documentary series (for 2018)  to film in Maungataniwha Native Forest in New Zealand

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1612/S00275/dinosaur-treasure-trove-lures-doco-crew-to-maungataniwha.htm

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Buriolestes, sauropod ancestor

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/paleo-profile-buriols-robber/

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More on coelurosaurian tail in amber

http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/wow-a-feathered-dinosaur-tail-preserved-in-amber

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2016/12/una-coda-di-dinosauro-conservata.html

video (in Chinese)

http://www.bjnews.com.cn/video/2016/12/09/426633.html

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More on Didelphodon

SDSU scientist Eric Ekdale helps discover mammal that ate dinosaurs

 

http://www.cw6sandiego.com/sdsu-scientist-helps-discover-mammal-ate-dinosaurs/

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New study finds mammals during age of dinosaurs packed a powerful bite (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ceQX_j-Vo

 

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Poster for Siberian Psittacosaurus on display in Moscow at Paleontological Museum (in Russian)

http://teplyystanmedia.ru/news/novosti-rayona/o-vystavke-sibirskiy-psittakozavr-rasskazhut-v-paleontologicheskogo-institute/

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Protecting the Petrified Forest National Park

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-more-weird-aspect-americas-strangest-national-park-conscience-pile-180961377/

Older story

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/protecting-arizonas-petrified-forest-can-be-easy-taking-hike-180957460/?no-ist