[dinosaur] Siberian Psittacosaurus video + dinosaur illustration + Spinolestes study prize + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

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Siberian Psittacosaurus video-- no narration but scenes of excavation, study, and preparation of specimen for display in Moscow (fits with Fossil Friday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZPTxUxSGO4

More info in Russian:

http://www.paleo.ru/museum/events/detail.php?ELEMENT_ID=14108

http://news.vse42.ru/feed/show/id/27244074

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Fossil Friday Roundup: December 16, 2016

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/12/16/fossil-friday-roundup-december-16-2016/

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Paleontology's Artistic Renaissance Will Be Violent AF -- interview with Donald Henderson

https://www.inverse.com/article/25258-paleontology-dinosaur-illustrations-paleoart-donald-henderson-tyrrell-museum

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Study of Cretaceous mammal Spinolestes  from  Las Hoyas (Cuenca) in Spain wins  4,500 euros in 14th International Research Award in Paleontology, for Paleonturología 16, which convenes every year Dinópolis and Caja Rural de Teruel (in Spanish)

http://www.fundaciondinopolis.org/index.php/noticias/430-el-premio-cumple-su-decimocuarta-edicion-y-ha-sido-convocado-por-la-fundacion-conjunto-paleontologico-de-teruel-dinopolis-la-caja-rural-de-teruel-y-la-sociedad-gestora-del-conjunto-paleontologico-de-teruel

http://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/noticias/aragon/estudio-mamifero-coetaneo-dinosaurios-gana-premio-paleonturologia_1167222.html

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Sauropod remains found  near  Las Lajas in Argentina, taken to Carmen Funes Museum (in Spanish)

http://www.diariamenteneuquen.com.ar/V3.0/2016/12/15/el-museo-carmen-funes-sumo-mas-fosiles-a-su-coleccion/

http://www.rionegro.com.ar/region/el-dinosaurio-sin-nombre-en-las-lajas-JY1818038

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And only because it's Friday, a life-size T. rex made of balloons....

https://www.cnet.com/news/life-size-t-rex-skeleton-made-of-balloons-is-breathtaking/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze1tCqsTsYE